Legacy is Not For You...But This Is
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🗓️ 1 March 2022
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Ryan talks about what legacy actually means.
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| 0:48.9 | Legacy is not for you, but this is. |
| 0:52.9 | Why are we talking about the Stoics 2000 years since they died? |
| 0:57.0 | Why do the works and the memories of Marcus and Epictetus and Seneca outlive them? |
| 1:01.4 | It's simple, because they make our lives better. |
| 1:04.7 | That's why you care about Marcus realist, not because he was famous or important, but |
| 1:07.7 | because the ideas he jotted down improve your own. |
| 1:12.3 | This, despite all those reminders to himself about the foolishness of hoping for posthumous |
| 1:16.6 | fame, can imagine what actually please Marcus. |
| 1:19.8 | We can imagine him nodding in agreement with what Prince Philip said about legacy shortly |
| 1:24.2 | before he died. |
| 1:25.5 | I'd rather other people decide what legacy I left, he said, I'm not trying to create |
| 1:30.6 | one. |
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