Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic

texts, audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic, and other long form

wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy, and most importantly,

that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

Thank you for listening.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday, welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

Mississippi is one of the more interesting of this dose, because he was this force in

his time, incredibly forceful, and he supposedly wrote 700 books.

Most of them don't survive how great a loss that is we can't say, epictetus once choked.

Some student was bragging about having read all of Mississippi's works, which were known

then to be tough reads, and he said, you know, if Mississippi was a better writer, you'd

have less to be proud of.

But that doesn't mean great, Mississippi wasn't a smart guy, he was an incredibly smart guy,

an incredibly important in the evolution of Stoicism.

And then you may have heard me talk about this before, but his death was particularly interesting,

and certainly contradicts one of the images that we have of the Stoics, which is actually

why I wrote lives of the Stoics, right?

What the Stoics said and who they were is supposed to be in alignment, but it's not necessarily

so, just like you and I are talking about striving to be Stoic, but then when the rubber

meets the road, maybe we don't always live up to it as much as we would like or in all

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