Are You Great Like This? | Ask Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
People have different definitions of greatness or success.
Maybe you think yourself powerful because you have a lot of people working for you. Or successful because you have a full calendar. Or important because you’ve been on TV. Or happy because you go from one pleasurable activity to the next.
But do you know what Seneca considered the sign of greatness?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.8 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.8 | But on Fridays, we not only read this daily meditation, but I try to answer some questions |
| 0:16.6 | from listeners and fellow stoics who are trying to apply this philosophy, whatever it is they |
| 0:21.9 | happen to do. |
| 0:23.5 | Sometimes these are from talks. |
| 0:25.1 | Sometimes these are people who come up to talk to me on the street. |
| 0:28.4 | Sometimes these are written in or emailed from listeners, but I hope in answering their |
| 0:33.4 | questions, I can answer your questions, give a little more guidance on this philosophy |
| 0:38.9 | we're all trying to follow. |
| 0:47.3 | Are you great like this? |
| 0:51.5 | People have different definitions of greatness or success. |
| 0:54.7 | Some people look at money as a measuring stick. |
| 0:57.3 | Some look at celebrity and recognition. |
| 0:59.6 | Others look at awards and rankings in fortunes 40 under 40. |
| 1:03.9 | Maybe you think you're powerful because you have a lot of people working for you or |
| 1:07.3 | successful because you have a full calendar or important because you've been on TV or |
| 1:12.1 | happy because you go from one pleasurable activity to the next. |
| 1:16.7 | But do you know what Sennaka considered? |
| 1:18.9 | The sign of greatness? |
| 1:21.0 | In on the shortness of life, he writes, believe me, it is the sign of a great man and one |
| 1:26.0 | who is above human error, not to allow his time to be freddered away. |
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