How The Stoics Got Rich | Stop Caring What People Think
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🗓️ 26 May 2023
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Summary
When you think of Stoicism, you don’t usually think of words like “rich” or “wealthy.”
But you should.
Before he founded Stoicism, Zeno was a wealthy and successful merchant from a family of wealthy and successful merchants. Seneca was so wealthy that when he called in some of his loans to the Roman colony in Britain, it crashed their economy and sparked a rebellion. Marcus Aurelius was born with ordinary bloodlines but–in part because of his serious study of philosophy–he became the richest and most powerful man in the Roman Empire.
The point is most—not all, but most—of the Stoics, ancient or modern, built some kind of wealth.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon |
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| 0:08.2 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. On Friday, we do double-duty not just reading our |
| 0:16.3 | daily meditation, but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic. My book, 366 Meditations |
| 0:23.0 | on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, |
| 0:28.6 | and a literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. So today, it will give you a quick meditation |
| 0:33.9 | from the Stoics with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world to |
| 0:39.1 | turn these words into works. |
| 0:41.8 | How The Stoics Got Rich |
| 0:53.8 | When you think of Stoicism, you don't usually think of words like rich or wealthy, but |
| 0:58.5 | you should. Before he founded Stoicism, Zeno was a wealthy and successful merchant from |
| 1:04.0 | a family of wealthy and successful merchants. Santa was so wealthy that when he called |
| 1:08.3 | in some of his loans to the Roman colony in Britain, it crashed their economy and sparked |
| 1:12.7 | rebellion. Marcus Aurelius was born with ordinary bloodlines, but in part because of his serious |
| 1:18.4 | study of philosophy, he became the richest and most powerful man in Rome. Caesar came from |
| 1:23.6 | a self-made family and then made his own fortune as he climbed the legal and political ladder |
| 1:28.4 | in Rome. And more recently, Stoicism is guided entrepreneur and investor Tim Ferris, |
| 1:33.3 | people like Ariana Huffington, the billionaire founder and CEO of Shopify, Toby Lutke, |
| 1:39.5 | CEO of the San Antonio Spurs, RC Buford, Global Popstar, Camila Cabejo. That's just naming |
| 1:48.0 | a few. But the point is most, not all, but most of the Stoics in the ancient or modern |
| 1:53.5 | world built some kind of wealth. And in fact, if you study any successful man or woman |
| 1:57.9 | you will inevitably find that they follow, sometimes unknowingly, many of the principles |
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