If You Want It To Take Hold In Your Mind…
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius read Epictetus…a lot. We know this because Meditations is proof of it. Almost every page has some direct quote or allusion to Epictetus. We also find, upon deeper inspection, references to the works of Panaetius, Chrysippus, the plays of Euripides, Zeno and countless other philosophers.
How does someone develop recall like that? How did he become so wise, not just on the page but in life? Through repetition and practice. Marcus Aurelius never refers to Seneca, but it’s clear that he internalized a piece of advice from that Stoic, too. “You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works,” Seneca wrote, “if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.5 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:13.1 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old |
| 0:16.2 | philosophy that has guided some of history's |
| 0:18.4 | greatest men and women. |
| 0:20.1 | For more, you can visit us, DailyStoak.com. |
| 0:25.3 | If you want this to take hold in your mind, |
| 0:29.2 | Marcus Aurelius read Epictetus a lot. |
| 0:31.8 | And we know this because meditations is proof of it. |
| 0:34.8 | Almost every page has some direct quote or allusions to Epictetus. We can also find |
| 0:40.0 | upon deeper inspection references to the works of Panateus, Chrysippus, the plays of Eurypides, |
| 0:46.0 | Zeno, and countless other philosophers. How does someone develop recall like that? How did he become so wise not just on the page, |
| 0:54.7 | but in life? By repetition and practice. |
| 0:58.0 | Although Marcus Riolis never refers to Seneca, it's clear that he had absorbed a piece of advice from that stoic too. |
| 1:04.7 | You must linger on a limited number of master thinkers and digest their works, |
| 1:10.0 | Seneca wrote, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind. |
| 1:17.2 | Over and over again the Stokes poured over the same texts so the ideas could take firm hold so that they could be absorbed so that it could become |
| 1:26.0 | muscle memory infused into their DNA once? No that's not enough. It's about the reading and the re-reading, writing and journaling and discussing and reflecting and experience and experiencing. |
| 1:40.0 | As Epictetus commanded every day and night, keep thoughts like this at hand, write them and read them aloud, |
| 1:45.9 | talk to yourself and others about them. |
| 1:48.7 | When I published the Daily Stoic back in 2016, by the way it's for sale for a dollar 99 on Amazon is an |
| 1:55.6 | ebook right now that's pretty cool. I had no idea it would sell millions of |
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