Stress Is a Fact Of Life, Being Stressed Is Not
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🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
"You think the Stoics didn’t experience stress?
Of course they did... Seneca had health problems, was exiled, and then had to show up to work for years in Nero’s court—walking on eggshells around an unstable man with a penchant for bloodlust. Epictetus survived thirty years of exile. Marcus Aurelius’s reign included a plague, health problems, wars, flooding, bankruptcy, and family issues... That’s the definition of stress."
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| 0:53.9 | Stress is a fact of life. Being stressed is not. You think that the Stoics didn't experience |
| 1:02.6 | stress? Of course they did. Xeno bost everything in the shipwreck. Cleanthes arrived in Athens |
| 1:08.8 | with empty pockets. Panateus was the right-hand man of CBO, one of the most powerful and |
| 1:14.4 | busy leaders in ancient Rome. Senka had health problems, was exile. Then had to show up |
| 1:20.1 | every day to work for years in Nero's court, walking on eggshells around a man who was |
| 1:25.6 | not stable. Epictetus survived 30 years of slavery. Marcus Aurelius' reign included |
| 1:32.0 | a plague, health problems, wars, flooding, bankruptcy, and family issues. That's the |
| 1:37.6 | definition of stress, the friction of conflicting obligations, hardship, uncertainty, pain, |
| 1:43.8 | failure, other people. These were all inevitable parts of life according to the Stoics. |
| 1:49.9 | But suffering because of it, actually being stressed because there was stress? No, those |
| 1:55.4 | are not the same things. One does not have to follow the other. When Marcus Aurelius said |
| 2:01.0 | that he could choose not to feel harmed and then he wouldn't be, that's what he meant. |
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