We Are All Trying This | Train To Let Go Of What's Not Yours
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
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Seneca wasn’t perfect. He struggled, as all humans do, with inconsistencies between his philosophy and his actions. So, why should we listen to him?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. We are all trying this. |
| 0:59.2 | Seneca wasn't perfect. |
| 1:01.3 | He struggled, as all humans do, with inconsistencies between his philosophy and his actions. |
| 1:07.2 | He was ungodly wealthy, and, you know, he worked for Nero. |
| 1:12.4 | So why should we listen to him? |
| 1:14.1 | Why did Lucilius, his friend and correspondent, take his advice seriously? |
| 1:18.7 | As it happened, the two had an exchange about this very issue. |
| 1:22.3 | Seneca quotes Lucilius, writing to him asking, |
| 1:24.7 | How is it that you are advising me? |
| 1:26.9 | Have you already advised yourself? Have you gotten yourself? |
| 1:29.6 | Straightened out? And Seneca replies, I am not such a hypocrite as to offer cures when I am sick |
| 1:35.7 | myself. No, he says, I am lying in the same ward, as it were, conversing with you about our |
| 1:42.0 | common ailment and sharing remedies. |
| 1:44.8 | So listen to me as if I were talking to myself. |
| 1:48.3 | I am letting you into my private room, giving myself instructions while you are standing by. |
| 1:55.2 | Seneca wasn't writing from a sage-like place of superiority. |
| 1:59.4 | No, he was writing as a fellow traveler, someone in the trenches |
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