Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

This is what money is jealous of.

You think they have it all. You think they have the good life. You think they have

everything they could possibly want. But the rich, the powerful, they are actually incredibly

jealous people. They are jealous not just of other rich people and therefore often feel

quite poor, Gordon to Seneca, but they are also jealous of seemingly ordinary people.

Like who? People with freedom. People with time. People who are happy. You think Marcus Arealist,

for all his wealth and power, didn't wish he could trade places with the philosophers he so

admired? Of course he did. You think Seneca, at the end, having gotten so much money from

Nero and thus unable to escape his clutches, didn't envy the more austere philosophers who shied away,

was his dying regret, no doubt. Gold, power, fame. As elusive and rare as these things are,

time is a much more precious resource,

and yet it is wasted on the young and the rich alike. But you can have those things easily.

In fact, you may well have them right now. You do not need to strike it rich. You were born rich.

You do not need to climb to the top. You can simply

step off the treadmill. Because every opportunity comes with a trade-off, and not every sum of money

is worth the price. And this is one of the things we talk about in the wealthy stoic, our sort of course

on stoicism and money. Maybe it sounds like

from the name, it's like, here's how to make more money. No, no, it's how the Stoics thought about

money. It's how they thought about their finances. It's how they change their relationship to

those things. There are definitely some stoic ideas that will help you be more successful.

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