Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers: How To Be Content - The Problem of Passion Pt. 1

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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

For many people, happiness is associated with contentment: being around family, enjoying work, having enough. But what are the secrets to obtaining a contented life in a world of materialistic excess and personal pressures?

One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) shared his wisdom about this question in his writings. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison, a leading authority on the poet, provides fresh, contemporary translations of poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death.

In this episode Ryan presents an excerpt of that book which specifically focuses on the idea of passion, and how the drive to obtain more and more can come between us and the good life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.
0:08.2	On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic
0:13.3	texts, audiobooks that you like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom
0:21.6	that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.
0:25.6	We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that
0:30.2	you're able to apply it to your actual life.
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0:49.9	You know, a friend of mine did this study a long time ago.
0:52.6	His name is Cepcam Bar and he looked at like thousands and thousands and thousands of
0:56.6	blog posts and he was able to sort them by the age of the person writing them and he
1:01.7	found that young people associated success with accomplishment but older people as they
1:07.3	got older, they more and more associated it with contentment being around family, being
1:12.6	happy, having enough that contentment was really the key.
1:16.0	Well in today's episode we're drawing from a collection of the poems of Horus which was
1:23.4	published by the Princeton University Press series for ancient wisdom, ancient wisdom for
1:28.4	modern readers.
1:29.4	I've raved about these series.
1:30.6	I carry them in the painting porch.
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