Seneca on Despising Death
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 23 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 why we should not get upset about future problems by making them a problem of the present. Go to tim.blog/seneca to get the PDF for free. Get Letters From a Stoic from the Painted Porch.
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| 0:22.6 | Welcome to the weekend edition of The Daily Stoke. |
| 0:26.1 | Each weekday, we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, |
| 0:30.7 | something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, |
| 0:35.9 | temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:37.5 | And then here on the weekend, we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 0:42.4 | We interview Stoic philosophers. |
| 0:45.1 | We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
| 0:52.4 | and the challenging issues of our time. |
| 0:54.8 | And here on the weekend, when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 1:00.3 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, |
| 1:05.9 | and most importantly, to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 1:11.7 | You know, the Stoics in real life met at what was called the Stoa. |
| 1:15.3 | The Stoa, Poquila, the Painted Porch in ancient Athens. |
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