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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals, and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. The more I read about him, just the more endlessly fascinated I am with Seneca.

I mean, he's brilliant, he's complicated, successful, falls from grace, closes way back up, gets caught up in one of the worst regimes in history.

He escapes sort of slinks, you know, out of it towards the end, then produces some of the most brilliant, provocative, philosophically wise writings ever put down in any language.

And then, you know, is tragically, his life is tragically cut short. Some would say in a way with the chickens coming home to roost, but anyways, just a just a fascinating human being.

And I think that's why his example has been so polarizing also inspiring, flumixing, intriguing, all of these things. One of the crazy things that I think is underrated as far as as Seneca goes is just how influential he was in his own time as a writer, like James Rom talks about this in his book on Seneca, which is very good.

And he says, for most of history, historians believe that Seneca, the playwright and Seneca, the philosopher politician were two separate people. The idea was no one could be so talented as to be both of those figures.

He's using, of course, because so many people in ancient Rome had like the same names, but he's saying that's as if Emerson also wrote Gertz Faust. And as I say in lives of the Stokes, it's actually more more crazy. It'd be like if Emerson wrote Faust and had served in the Lincoln administration.

So Seneca is just all over the place. I mean, there is a line of graffiti at Pompeii from that time before the explosion of a line from Seneca's place. So he was famous in his own time just as a writer, his philosophical work was famous, but obviously is much more famous to us today than it probably was in his own time.

Probably too close to his political stuff to have been fully appreciated, but you know, just an intriguing figure because he probably writes about Stokes in the most eloquently of all the Stokes, yet his lifestyle is not the most at odds with it, but the most complicated and real, right?

I think Seneca is relatable to us today because he did struggle where it seems like Marcus Aurelius was almost like a superhuman and epictetus, of course, the superhuman and James Stockdale, a superhuman.

You know, Seneca, you get a disinnovated world, the ambition and there's some epicurian tendencies there and he just feels like he feels like he'd be at home today in our world as he would have been at one of Gatsby's parties in the Ruin 20s or at a French salon during the King Louis time. It's just, you know, he's just an endlessly fascinating figure. I love talking about him. So I want to really answer that question. Who is Seneca?

What was so incredible about the life of one of Stoicism's great thinkers? And we put this episode together as part of the Lies of the Stoics campaign. She haven't you checked out the book yet. Definitely hope you do. There's one of my favorite chapters to write was the chapter on Seneca, but here is the life of Seneca. It's a short episode, but I think it packs a punch.

And then of course, if you want to read more about Seneca, check out the book or check out many, many, many of the things that I've written about him.

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