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Where would we be without them? There would be no Plato without Socrates, there would be no

Aristotle without Plato. There would be no Alexander without Aristotle. There would be no

Marcus Aurelius without Rusticus or Epictetus or Antoninus. There would be no Zeno without

Cretes, and thus there would be no Stoicism without Cretes. Do you know what Craties, the

cynic philosopher who Zeno studied under, was nicknamed in ancient Athens? He was known as the

door opener. That's what great teachers do,

don't they? They open doors. They invite you in. They help you see the possibilities you didn't know

existed. And bad teachers, they do the opposite. They close doors. They beat the curiosity out you. They make you think

you're bad at math or at reading or at thinking. Maybe you've always hated school. Maybe you've been

told you're not smart. Maybe you've believed it. But have you ever considered that maybe you just

haven't found the right teacher? There is someone out there who gets you,

but it's your job to look for them. They say that when the student is ready, the teacher will

appear, and that can be true, but we also can't just sit around waiting for a miracle.

We have to seek out teachers and schools that are right for us. Zeno went looking for Grates,

after all. Marcus Aurelius sought out the great minds of his time, finding it in Rusticus and Fronto,

and still even as an old man, Marcus was going to attend the lectures of sex as the philosopher.

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