Be Brave Enough To Do This
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🗓️ 25 September 2024
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We carry our own weight in this world, we blow our own nose, as Epictetus says. It’s what’s right, it’s what’s fair, it’s our job.
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| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:17.4 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 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 stoock.com. |
| 0:41.0 | Be brave enough to do this. It's jarring sometimes to read the Stoics. They feel so much like us so |
| 0:45.4 | timelessly and universally human in their reflections on life and then you run smack |
| 0:50.5 | into some off-handed mention of slavery, or more commonly some misogynistic |
| 0:55.2 | comment that hasn't aged very well, and also feels totally pointless and beneath someone |
| 1:00.0 | as great as Seneca or Mark Surilius. |
| 1:03.2 | Doing anything womanly, be it woman's work or having a woman's emotions, |
| 1:07.0 | this was seen as almost the ultimate slur to some of the Stoics. |
| 1:11.5 | It seems strange that Cato, who went around deliberately challenging Rome's social |
| 1:15.1 | conventions as a matter of self-discipline, would be so concerned with what other people thought of him. |
| 1:20.1 | But that's the thing about prejudices. |
| 1:23.5 | They are so fundamentally irrational. |
| 1:26.8 | And worse, they are almost always evidence of insecurity and fragility, which is to say the opposite of what Stoicism is supposed to be. |
| 1:35.3 | So it's wonderfully refreshing to read in the surviving fragments of hierarchlies, a much more |
| 1:40.1 | modern and actualized prescription. Sure Sure men and women might have different activities |
| 1:45.2 | they tend towards, but when speaking of weaving and other work around the home, Heericles |
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