Books + Bars: Seneca, “The Shortness of Life”
Sports Motivation Podcast
Niyi Sobo
4.8 • 755 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2017
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
In today's episode of Books and Bars, we dig into an ancient book by Stoic philosopher, Seneca, “The Shortness of Life”. Are you stingy or frugal with your time? People that say they don’t have time to do important things are just lying to themselves. Let’s act TODAY, and be fearless with what needs to be done.
BOOK: Seneca, “The Shortness of Life”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the sports motivation podcast. Today is books and bars. Books and bars, two of my |
| 0:08.7 | favorite things. Man, I love books. I love reading. And I know you know that and you probably |
| 0:12.5 | love reading as well. I give a ton of, I read a lot and I give a ton of recommendations, books that |
| 0:19.6 | can help you change the way that you |
| 0:22.0 | think because how you think leads to everything that you do. Most people focus only on |
| 0:27.1 | the actions. They need to be focused on their mindset and changing their philosophy, changing |
| 0:31.9 | their mindset so that they can ultimately get different results. And of course, I love music. |
| 0:39.2 | I love bars. |
| 0:40.2 | I love hip hop. |
| 0:41.2 | What is a bar? |
| 0:42.2 | A bar is a lyric. |
| 0:43.2 | All right? |
| 0:44.2 | So in this books and bars series, I'm literally just breaking down excerpts from some of my favorite books, bars from some of my favorite songs, and I'm explaining what they mean to me. All right? So today, |
| 0:56.3 | this book is powerful. It's called, uh, on, it's, it's by Seneca, a stoic philosopher, |
| 1:03.8 | ancient stoic philosopher. And anytime you read books like this, the, the coolest thing about |
| 1:09.0 | one of the coolest things, because sometimes |
| 1:11.6 | these books are hard to read. I'm not going to lie. Like, sometimes you have to read it and you |
| 1:16.6 | have to, like, digest it, really. Some of them are written a little more simply than others. |
| 1:22.5 | Seneca, I would say, is easier to understand than some, but certainly not the easiest of the Stoic |
| 1:31.0 | philosophers to understand. |
| 1:33.9 | But the cool thing, what I was saying is the cool thing for me about reading books like |
| 1:37.7 | this is that they have literally stood the test of time. |
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