Welcome to Erin Mankie's Cabinet of Curiosity's, a production of I Heart Radio and Grimm

and Mild.

Our world is full of the unexplainable.

And if history is an open book, all of these amazing tales are right there on display,

just waiting for us to explore.

Welcome to the Cabinet of Curiosity's.

Stoicism has become a popular topic today.

For entertainers, executives, and people who feel out of control of their lives, stoicism

can be an anchor to help them get through the day.

It teaches them to focus on what they can directly control.

But it's not a new concept.

In fact, stoicism dates all the way back to ancient Greece.

When we think of the ancient Stoic philosophers, such as Marcus Aurelius or Epicetus, we imagine

serious thinkers, men and women who pondered the great questions of the universe and wrote

long treatises on how to navigate life.

What we don't imagine is their sense of humor, and that's because they didn't write

about it.

Plato wrote a paragraph about humor here and there, usually in the midst of discussing

another topic entirely, but he shunned it laughter.

He considered it in his words, a certain kind of evil.

But not everyone felt that way.

In fact, one philosopher loved to laugh.

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