You Must Run War Games
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 10 August 2020
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Summary
"In Rome, as today, things went wrong all the time. Wars broke out. Earthquakes struck. Pandemics infected populations. In Rome, as in our time, people were constantly caught off guard by these things."
Learn the exercise that the Stoics performed to prepare for disaster in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:31.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help |
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| 0:42.7 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
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| 0:55.8 | You must run war games in Rome. As in our time, things went wrong. Wars broke out. |
| 1:02.3 | Earthquakes struck pandemics, infected populations in Rome. As in our time, people were constantly |
| 1:09.0 | caught off guard by these things. |
| 1:10.8 | Seneca writes about a fire that broke out and destroyed the city of lions. Even in learning |
| 1:16.5 | this, the people of Rome were not prepared when a fire broke out and destroyed their city. |
| 1:21.3 | If only they had listened to Seneca. He'd been saying it since the first time he was exiled, |
| 1:26.4 | pre-metatoscio-malorum, nothing ought to be unexpected by us. Our mind should be set |
| 1:31.8 | forward in advance to meet all problems and we should consider not what is won't to |
| 1:37.0 | happen, but what can happen? |
| 1:39.4 | What about today when COVID-19 has made quick work of businesses, government agencies, and |
| 1:44.2 | supply chains? Was anyone able to withstand the onslaught of economic and health issues? |
| 1:50.0 | Yes, it turns out there was. In Texas, there was HEB, the grocery chain that has been actually |
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