The Daily Stoic - It All Depends on How You Look at It
Episode Date: October 14, 2020Ryan contrasts the experiences of Seneca and Napoleon on the island of Corsica, and why perspective is so important in how we shape our experiences, on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If ...you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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It depends on how you look at it.
Seneca was not excited to be exiled to Corsica, a mountainous and rough-hune island 60 miles
off the coast of Italy.
It was over 180 miles from Rome.
It was a rock in the middle of the ocean
with a single paved road.
It was far from his friends and family.
Anyone who reads the consolation he wrote to his mother
during his time there can see that he was really
consoling himself because he was miserable in this God
for second place.
So it catches a student of history off guard to read Napoleon's descriptions of the bucolic
boyhood and beloved homeland he loved so much.
The island.
Of course, Aka.
This was a place he was willing to fight and die for.
This was the place he wanted to see one last time before he was exiled, the place he
wept to think he would never see again.
That's sort of how things go, isn't it?
It's what that expression that one man's trash is another man's treasure means.
But also that one man's nightmare is another man's dream.
What matters is how we choose to look at things.
What matters is the perspective we bring to the situations we face. Senica could have drank in the beauty that Napoleon did. He could have
approached Corsica with more childlike eyes, but instead all you could see was
what he lost. All he could do was compare his fate to his life in Rome. And so
doing he deprived himself of what was actually around him and he made his
sentence more difficult. So the question for you today is,
where are you doing the same thing to yourself
with where you live, with the job you have,
or the person you're married to,
or the so-called punishment you think you're enduring.
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