Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

On Tuesdays we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our

actual lives. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. Follow your arrow. They were different. Some of them were downright weird. Clianthus made quite a spectacle of himself in Athens,

as a philosopher who did a, who did manual labor for a living.

Cato walked around bareheaded and barefooted

violating most of the social and

classrooms of his time. Marcus Aurelius was seen reading books at the

Coliseum and different to the popular past times that got everyone else excited. A griponus, one middlestooke who lived in the time of

Nero, cared nothing for the niceties and obedience expected of the citizens of Nero's tyrannical

regime. As I tell the story in lives of the citizens of Nero's tyrannical regime. As I tell the story in lives of the Stoics, a

grip and his claim that he wanted to be the red thread in the sweater of life, the little bit of

color that stood out and made the garment beautiful.

All the Stoics went their own way, like the great Casey Musgrave's line,

they followed their arrow wherever it pointed.

For them getting ahead being well-liked, being cool, this was not interesting.

They aimed at something more meaningful.

Virtue.

Self-Sufficiency, excellence.

Sometimes this took them in a direction that people understood and respected,

like running for office.

Other times it didn't.

What do you mean you wouldn't cheat to win that office?

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