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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. We've talked about Epic Titus here quite a bit.

Actually, we just rolled out this really cool new YouTube video about Epic Titus's Secrets for Resilience. You can check that out at youtube.com slash Daily Stoic.

But Epic Titus is fascinating because unlike all the other Stoics, he actually experienced profound and real adversity without any of the privileges that would have balanced out the life of Marcus Arrealis or Seneca.

He's born a slave, he spends 30 years in slavery. In fact, even his name, Epic Titus, it means acquired one. Like this dude doesn't even get his own name.

Now, Epic Titus doesn't write anything down as far as we know. Epic Titus that we're going to hear from today, even the Epic Titus that Marcus are really as quotes in his meditations is coming to us from lecture notes from his students.

Was Marcus's from his philosophy teacher, Rousticus are these Rousticus's notes or his Rousticus himself just handing Marcus really is the notes from Aryan, who also writes a fascinating book about Alexander the Great, who is a favorite of Hadrian, the Emperor.

Anyways, that's why Epic Titus is work is called the discourses because it's the lecture notes is what Epic Titus is talking about in his philosophy school in the Copolis in Greece, the early second century AD.

And there's a bunch of different translations. I like that penguin trans, I like the penguin classics translation.

Robin Waterfeld has a new translation of Epic Titus. It's also quite good. In today's episode, we're reading one from an older translation. This is going to be read to us by Michael Reed who's been doing a bunch of awesome voice overwork for daily stoke, including the Epic Titus video that I mentioned earlier.

But Epic Titus starts at the beginning, right? He says, this is about what's in our control and what isn't how to make use of what's in our power and treat the rest as something we accept something we put up with something we come to terms with something we find out how to use had to be made better for having gone through, which is all the more poignant again when you think about what epitetus went through in his life, the things he had to come to terms with things he had to accept.

He's not being glib about is not talking about being stuck in traffic, right? He's talking about his lame leg, which was broken by a cruel slave master. He's talking about the years of his life that were stolen. He's talking about the injustices of the society that he lives in, which came down so hard on him.

So I wanted to bring you some thoughts directly from Epic Titus himself, although direct, Epic Titus gives his lectures, Aryan and other students write them down, then these get translated and translated and translated and then they were read and then this excerpt from book one of Epic Titus discourses is brought to you by daily stoke and Michael Reed. And you can grab any of the translations of Epic Titus from the painted porch, grab them anywhere books are sold.

But I hope this is a little intro into the one and only epitetus.

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