This Is Real Power
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Seneca, Cato, and Marcus Aurelius operated in the real world. They navigated within and around the halls of power. They had people working above and below them, and they needed to figure out how to motivate, influence, understand, and accommodate those people. And while virtue kept them from being too Machavailian, they had to figure out how to affect change and get things done inside a world that wasn’t so virtuous.
So it’s an interesting question: What is the most Stoic law of power?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.5 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. |
| 0:13.3 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
| 0:17.6 | of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:20.2 | For more, you can visit us dailystoic.com. |
| 0:30.6 | This is real power. |
| 0:33.2 | Seneca, M. Kato, and Marcus Real is operated in the real world. |
| 0:37.0 | They navigated within and around the halls of power. |
| 0:40.1 | They had people working above and below them, they needed to figure out how to motivate |
| 0:43.6 | influence, understand, and accommodate those people. |
| 0:46.6 | And while virtue kept them from being too Machiavellian, they had to figure out how |
| 0:50.7 | to affect change and get things done inside a world that wasn't so virtuous. |
| 0:55.4 | So it's an interesting question. |
| 0:57.3 | What is the most stoic law of power? |
| 1:00.5 | We actually asked Robert Green this question over on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel not |
| 1:04.5 | long ago. |
| 1:05.5 | I'd gone out and seen him when I was in Los Angeles, because actually he and I are going |
| 1:09.6 | to be live on stage in Los Angeles and Seattle on September. |
| 1:13.2 | More about that later. |
| 1:14.2 | And grab tickets. |
| 1:15.2 | I'll tell you about that. |
| 1:16.2 | Anyways, I suggested that the most stoic law of power is law number four, always say |
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