You Can Live Well Anywhere
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
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If you need money and success to live well, then you’re vulnerable to things not going well.
💡 The Wealthy Stoic: A Daily Stoic Guide to Being Rich, Happy, and Free explores how stoic ideas can be applied to personal finance, wealth-building, financial mindset, and how it can help you overcome common financial obstacles and challenges
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| 0:08.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:17.4 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 0:24.0 | 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and |
| 0:28.1 | women. For more you can visit us at daily stoic.com. |
| 0:41.0 | You could live well anywhere. Epitetus was well accustomed to a hard life having spent years as a slave. |
| 0:47.1 | Zeno founded Stoicism from nothing, having lost everything. |
| 0:50.9 | Kleeanthi's made subsistence wages as a manual laborer, but certainly few of them tried to be poor. |
| 0:57.6 | In fact, financial security, if not wealth, was one of the preferred indifference that Seneca spoke about. |
| 1:03.0 | A stoic should be able to be good regardless of their circumstances, but if one had a choice |
| 1:07.8 | about those circumstances, it's pretty reasonable to go with more than less, right? |
| 1:12.8 | As a matter of fact, many of the Stoics were quite wealthy. |
| 1:15.9 | Cato came from one of Rome's great families. |
| 1:18.8 | Seneca's father passed to him and his brothers an enormous estate, and Seneca had a mind for business and he also made a |
| 1:24.2 | fortune in politics. Cicero coming to Rome's public life as a new man from new money |
| 1:29.3 | was a successful lawyer. Marcus Aurelius had family money and then you know he became the head of the entire empire. |
| 1:36.6 | So when they talked about living a simple life it was about contentment and discipline amidst abundance. |
| 1:42.6 | It was more about avoiding temptations and entitlement and softness than anything else. |
| 1:48.3 | One may live well even in a palace, Marcus Aurelius wrote. |
| 1:52.2 | He would have also readily agreed that one could live well at camp, which he tried to do, or in exile, |
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