No One Can Take This Away | Why Seeking Out Challenges Will Change Your Life

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🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

“It is a vast kingdom to be able to cope without a kingdom,” Seneca wrote in his play, Thyestes. This was no mere word play. This was hard-won wisdom.

No one can stop you from ruling over yourself. It’s the best and the biggest and the strongest kingdom there is.

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Those who have never been tested should be pitied, Seneca said, because they don’t know what they’re capable of. To Marcus, philosophy was all about challenging yourself. It was about settling on words and reminders (epithets, he called them) to live up to, particularly in difficult situations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom
0:08.4	designed to help you in your everyday life.
0:11.4	On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual
0:16.7	lives.
0:17.7	Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy.
0:25.5	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon
0:30.0	music.
0:31.0	Download the app today.
0:39.5	Twice Senica was exiled.
0:41.8	Twice she basically lost everything.
0:44.4	Money, access, influence, it all went away.
0:47.4	Like that.
0:49.0	How did he handle it?
0:50.0	The first time not so well.
0:52.2	You can read the thou dost protest too much letter he wrote to his mother, and we can see
0:58.0	what he was willing to do in order to be recalled.
1:01.4	By stoic standards, it wasn't pretty.
1:03.9	The second time he did a little better, as long as he could be free from Nero, the exile
1:08.7	was worth the loss.
1:10.4	And when he was approached by Nero's executioner, he responded finally with courage and strength,
1:16.4	only then were the man and his philosophy aligned.
1:20.2	It is a vast kingdom to be able to cope without a kingdom.
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