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🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Elon Musk is smart. Yet would anyone describe Elon Musk as happy?

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation
0:11.7	designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.
0:18.8	Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of
0:24.2	history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,
0:33.0	and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.
0:40.3	For more, visit DailyStoic.com. Happiness is wisdom.
0:59.0	Wisdom is happiness.
1:00.8	It was a rough life, plagues and pain, pandemics and personal loss, stress and temptation.
1:08.2	Marcus Aurelius, for all his privilege, did not have it easy.
1:12.5	Yet we ought to imagine him happy.
1:16.1	Why?
1:17.0	Because he tried to be.
1:18.8	All the Stoics did.
1:20.4	Not happy in the sense that they smiled all the time or were always having a good time,
1:25.3	but happy in the sense that they were fulfilled,
1:28.3	that they experienced stillness and contentment, gratitude, and acceptance.
1:33.5	Convince yourself that it's all a gift from the gods, he writes in meditations as a kind
1:38.1	of definition of stoic happiness and wisdom, that things are good and always will be.
1:47.3	The primary indication of a well-ordered mind,
1:53.0	Seneca said, is man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.
1:59.6	Let us contrast this with another powerful person. Elon Musk is smart, he is rich,
2:04.0	incredibly so, with a net worth of around $500 billion.
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