Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visit allowed others to control. name literally means acquired one, was never broken. He never relinquished the command over his mind,

never allowed others to control his thoughts or emotions. Instead, he mastered the art of resilience

and discovered that while we may not choose everything that happens to us, we always have the

power to choose how we respond. As he said, even Zeus cannot deprive

you of that fortune. How can we seize this power for ourselves? How can we find a great fortune

inside even misfortune? How can we reverse our circumstances as Epictetus did? Well, we can do it the same

way Epicetus himself did through philosophy. You see, Epictetus studied under Musonius Rufus,

the so-called Roman Socrates, who instilled in Epictetus that philosophy was not a diversion

or a luxury, but a necessity, a discipline,

a way of life. And then after earning his freedom, Epictetus established his own school in the

city of Nacopolis, where students from all over the empire, including the Emperor Hadrian, came to

learn. So what did Epictetus teach? Well, we've been doing a deep dive into those teachings,

it's our Epictetus Month here at Daily Stoic.

What Epictetus taught was that most people are not enslaved by others,

but by their own passions, their fears, their attachments,

that our judgments, not events themselves, are what disturb us,

that we must train ourselves to be indifferent to the things

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