You Gotta Be Able To Do This
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🗓️ 13 March 2024
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius was, of course, an incredible man. He endured more than most people. He had more power than most people—and wore it more lightly. He did more work on himself than most people, understood people, and himself, better than most people.
Was he perfect though? Of course not. No one is.
In Lonesome Dove, the Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow Call seems almost superhuman, especially to the young cowboy Newt. Newt worships the ground the man walks on, believing he isn’t like the rest of them. And in a sense, he isn’t. The Captain can ride further and faster, is more principled, less afraid, tougher than everyone on the Plains.
We know Marcus Aurelius made mistakes. We know he paid lip service to admitting error in Meditations, to not continuing in error just because you began in one. But how good was he in practice? It’s less clear. He was wrong about his son Commodus for example. Was he too proud to admit this? Here, or elsewhere, did he have trouble owning that he was just like everyone else? That he could screw up? That he had human urges and human flaws? We hope so but we don’t know.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient |
| 0:08.5 | wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life. |
| 0:13.1 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old |
| 0:16.2 | philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest |
| 0:18.9 | men and women. |
| 0:20.1 | For more, you can visit us, DailyStoak.com. |
| 0:24.0 | You've got to be able to do this. |
| 0:26.0 | Mark Isrealis was, of course, an incredible man. |
| 0:29.0 | He endured more than most people. |
| 0:30.0 | He had more power than most people, |
| 0:32.0 | and he wore it more lightly he did more |
| 0:34.4 | work on himself than most people understood people and himself better than most people |
| 0:40.0 | was he perfect though of course not no is. In lonesome dove the Texas ranger Captain Woodrow |
| 0:46.4 | call seems almost superhuman, especially to the young cowboy Newt. Newt worships the ground the man walks on believing he isn't like the rest of them. |
| 0:55.0 | And in a sense he isn't. The captain can ride further and faster is more principled, less afraid, tougher than everyone on the plains. |
| 1:02.0 | But is his friend and fellow ranger August |
| 1:05.4 | McCray knows call is not perfect. He's hiding a secret. He is Newt's father |
| 1:09.6 | but he won't admit it and worse he won't admit that he should have admitted it earlier. |
| 1:14.4 | He had a chance to be once, McCrae says of call. He turned his back on it and now he can't |
| 1:19.6 | admit that he made the wrong choice. He'd assume kill himself. He's got to keep trying to be the way he thinks he is and he's got to make out that he always was that way. |
| 1:30.0 | And it's why he ain't owned up to be in your paw. We know that Marcus |
| 1:34.8 | realist made mistakes. We know that he paid lip service to admitting air and |
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