Seneca on Being

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 8 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. In this letter Seneca writes about the ethereal nature of human existence, how time is constantly moving life forward, why we should take advantage of the time that we have here, and more. Go to tim.blog/seneca to get the PDF for free.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice
0:23.9	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend
0:27.0	We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoke philosophers. We explore at length
0:35.0	How these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time
0:42.7	Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.7	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.2	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast
1:06.8	One of the questions I get the most obviously from podcast listeners is like what are the best audiobooks of the Stokes
1:12.8	Because there's not that many great options obviously marks realist did not record his own audiobook
1:18.7	For instance the translation I love of meditations. It was published in like 2003 maybe
1:23.8	Maybe earlier. So like audiobooks weren't even really a thing
1:27.6	So there's not a great selection and that's why I was so excited when a few years ago
1:32.8	My friend Tim Ferris brought out the Dow of Seneca an audiobook that's essentially the best of
1:39.2	Seneca's letters. I recommend this to people all the time
1:44.4	Who maybe are more listeners than readers and I said hey Tim could I run some of my
1:51.6	Favorite letters from your audiobook on the podcast?
1:54.4	Absolutely and you can get the PDF of these letters totally for free if you go to Tim.blog slash Seneca
2:02.4	Again, I think this is a great public service. He's done in today's excerpt
2:06.7	Seneca is talking about why we're here
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