You've Been Doing It All Wrong
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
"For most of history, we’ve gotten it precisely wrong.
We have given far too much attention to what philosophers have thought or written, when really what counts is what they do. What someone says is not important; what’s important is if they live up to what they say. In the end, what matters—whether a person is ancient or modern—is whether their ideas work in the real world, whether they make our lives better or not."
Ryan shows why it's the actions of philosophers that are so important, and talks about the brand new book he's written to help shine light on those actions, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius.
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| 1:10.6 | You've been doing it all wrong. For most of history we have gotten it precisely wrong. |
| 1:17.9 | We have given far too much attention to what philosophers have thought or written when |
| 1:22.8 | really what counts is what they do. What someone says is not important. What is important |
| 1:29.1 | is whether they live up to what they say. In the end what matters whether a person is |
| 1:33.5 | ancient or modern is whether their ideas work in the real world, whether they make our |
| 1:38.9 | ideas better or not, and whether they themselves apply those ideas. This core distinction is |
| 1:46.3 | what separates stoicism from other schools. Don't talk about your philosophy epictetus |
| 1:52.0 | would say embody it. That was why he was so frustrated with his students who congratulated |
| 1:57.4 | themselves on being able to read the obscure writings of precipice. They were missing |
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