No One Can Hold Anything Over You | Keeping “The News” In Check
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🗓️ 24 July 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Many of the Stoics were powerful and privileged. Marcus Aurelius was born to a wealthy family and then was given the throne and the empire. Cato came from an old and prestigious family. But not all the Stoics were so lucky–Epictetus was born a slave. His teacher Musonius was exiled multiple times. Admiral James Stockdale, whose heroics we’ve spoken of often, was from an ordinary American family in Illinois.
Yet advantaged or disadvantaged, all the Stoics possessed a certain power, a certain freedom by way of their philosophy.
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And today's entry of The Daily Stoic Journal, Ryan discusses why even the Stoics struggled with maintaining a balanced information diet, and therefore preached the benefits of favoring the everlasting wisdom found in books over daily news.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:05.7 | Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories |
| 0:11.0 | from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do. |
| 0:16.0 | And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic |
| 0:20.0 | intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave |
| 0:25.0 | you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing. |
| 0:28.8 | So let's get into it. |
| 0:43.4 | No one can hold anything over you. |
| 0:46.7 | Many of the Stoics were powerful and privileged. |
| 0:49.0 | Marcus Aurelius was born to a wealthy family and then he was given the throne in the Empire. |
| 0:53.6 | Cato came from an old and prestigious family, but not all of the Stoics were so lucky. |
| 0:59.5 | Epic Titus was born a slave. |
| 1:01.3 | His teacher Musoneus was exiled multiple times. |
| 1:04.2 | Admiral James Stockdale, whose heroics we spoken about often was from an ordinary American |
| 1:09.0 | family in Illinois. |
| 1:10.6 | Yet, advantaged or disadvantaged, all the Stoics possessed a certain power, a certain freedom |
| 1:16.0 | by way of their philosophy. |
| 1:17.8 | The Stoics, rich and poor alike were equally independent and defiant. |
| 1:21.9 | They were in command of themselves. |
| 1:24.1 | They knew what was good and what wasn't. |
| 1:25.9 | They knew what was true and what wasn't. |
| 1:28.1 | And no one through force or temptation could make them think otherwise. |
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