Seneca on Choosing Our Teachers
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 28 November 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. In this letter Seneca writes about the importance of having a model to measure yourself against, how to learn from the great men and women of history, learning not only from the strengths but also from the fault and weaknesses of others, and more. Go to tim.blog/seneca to get the PDF for free.
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| 0:19.2 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:24.1 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics |
| 0:30.5 | We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
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