This Is a Game of Inches
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🗓️ 24 April 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
"Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck in the 3rd century BC. A family fortune. His occupation. Everything. He washed up in Athens anonymous and penniless. When he died, an old man, some forty years later, he was not only prosperous, he was one of the wisest men in the world. He’d been offered the keys to Athens and an honorary citizenship too. The school he founded, on the old stoa in Agora, would influence millions of people for the next two thousand years.
How did he do it? How did he recover? How did he make his way to greatness?"
Find out in today's Daily Stoic podcast.
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