Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.

Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, illustrated with stories

from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic

intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave

you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

The things you own can't own you.

To the Stoics there wasn't anything wrong with having money.

Mark's Reel's came from money, Soda Cato, Seneca came from money and also made a lot of

it.

In fact, pretty much all of the Stoics, except for the Cleanthes and Epidetus, were incredibly

rich.

Many nice stuff living the comfortable life, this was not necessarily the problem.

The problem was the dependence it engendered.

The problem was the insatiability that seemed to come along with it.

The problem was the fear and the jealousy it encouraged, the fear of losing it all, the

lust to have more than someone else.

It didn't make you freer, as we've talked about.

But less free, less risk-averse, less connected to other people.

Seneca would write, lurks beneath marble and gold, the things we own end up owning us.

Because now we can't live without them, now we identify with them, now we're worried

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