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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.

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Late is better than never.

What new information could there possibly have been for Senaqa in 62 AD when he finally broke with Nero?

Nero had been deranged for years, as detailed in James Rom's excellent book, Dying Every Day.

He'd been bloodthirsty for years, unfit for leadership since almost the beginning.

And Senaqa knew better from the beginning.

He was the man who was a philosopher and historian, and it could not have been deceived for long.

So we can sit here and judge, we can shake our heads in bafflement.

But we really shouldn't.

The fact that Senaqa eventually worked up the courage to participate in a conspiracy against Nero shouldn't be dismissed as too little too late, because later it's better than never.

Because not everyone did come around.

In fact, most people never do than or now.

When we are wrong, when we've had our blinders on, when we've been implicated in something even complicit in it, it's so terribly, terribly hard to change our minds.

It is hard to admit air harder still to admit guilt, and the hardest still to take steps to rectify it.

Instead of condemning those who have the fortitude, the awareness, the conscience, even the desperate motivation of last minute self preservation, we should celebrate it.

We should make soft landings for them so as to encourage future folks.

We should, as Mark's really tried to do, should forgive.

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