You Can’t Deny This |10 Stoic Tips For Being A Better Leader
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
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Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. Other Stoics knew better. Thrasea (whose story we tell in Lives of the Stoics) opposed him from the start. Agrippinus (another fascinating Stoic in Lives) wouldn’t even attend Nero’s parties, because it was clear to him that the man was a tyrant.
Surely these men (and women) communicated their concerns to Seneca. Surely people raised questions. But Seneca thought he knew better. He was also paid so handsomely by Nero, was so powerful as a result of his position as Nero’s teacher and advisor, that it became hard for him to see what was there. It was a classic case of that problem outlined by Upton Sinclair many centuries later: It’s very hard to get someone to see something that their salary (or status or identity) depends on them not seeing.
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| 0:09.0 | It is unacceptable to have figures like roads glorified. |
| 0:15.0 | But it also changes. |
| 0:17.0 | Reputations are re-examined by new generations who may not like what they find. |
| 0:22.0 | The car sale is undeniably a genius, but also a less than perfect human. |
| 0:27.0 | From Wondery and Goldhanger Podcasts, I'm Afuahirsch. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm Peter Frankapurn. |
| 0:32.0 | And this is Legacy. |
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| 0:40.0 | To find out what their past tells us about our present. |
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| 1:46.0 | On Tuesdays we take a closer look at these stoic ideas how we can apply them in our actual lives. |
| 1:53.0 | Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. |
| 1:56.0 | You can't deny this. Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. |
| 2:11.0 | Other Stoics knew better. |
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