Are You Allowed To Cry?
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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Summary
A Stoic is invulnerable. A Stoic is tough. A Stoic is emotionless. A Stoic can't cry...right?
You’re only human. So be human and let yourself feel.
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| 0:17.4 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
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| 0:24.0 | 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and |
| 0:28.1 | women. For more you can visit us at daily stoic.com. Are you allowed to cry? A Stoic is invulnerable, a stoic is |
| 0:43.3 | emotionless, a stoic doesn't, can't cry, right? |
| 0:47.3 | Well, Marcus, really, sure, seemed to think otherwise. |
| 0:50.3 | Here we have him weeping over the death of a beloved tutor. Here we have him |
| 0:54.4 | breaking down at the thought of becoming emperor. Here we have him crying over the |
| 0:58.4 | loss of so many during the plague. Here we have him tearing up at the assassinated body of his rival, |
| 1:04.0 | Vidious Cassius, mourning the murdered opportunity to grant the man clemency. |
| 1:08.7 | The point is, Mark's realist didn't see any contradiction with these shows of emotion. He didn't think it was |
| 1:13.9 | unmanly to be sad or to mourn. In fact, the only time we do have Marcus realist talking |
| 1:19.0 | about an emotion not being manly is in reference to losing your temper. Besides that the Stoics would say |
| 1:24.7 | it's okay to let it out. Don't feel bad if that's what you need. Life can be a pressure cooker at times. |
| 1:31.5 | And like an actual pressure cooker you've got to hit the release |
| 1:34.0 | valve every so often so the whole thing doesn't explode in your face. You are only |
| 1:38.6 | human, so be human, not just once but all the time and let yourself feel. If you like the daily stoic and thanks for listening, you can listen early and ad free right now by joining |
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