The Daily Stoic - It Doesn’t Matter What You Say. It Matters What You Do.

Episode Date: September 29, 2020

"In Seneca’s writings, he is almost unbelievably Stoic. He speaks truth to power, he never despairs, he tries his best to be ethical and good. But in real life? Seneca was often afraid to challenge Nero, he felt sorry for himself while in exile, he chased wealth and fame. This is not to indict him, but to show the difference between theory and practice."What explains this distinction? Ryan describes it, and how the Stoics tried to put their philosophy into practice, in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.Get your copy of Ryan's new book, Lives of the Stoics (https://geni.us/LUN7). To get the special bonuses for ordering the book, visit dailystoic.com/lives.***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 @DailyStoic: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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowic.com. It doesn't matter what you say. It matters what you do. In Seneca's writing, he is almost unbelievably stoic. He speaks truth to power. He never disperse. He was always ethical and good. But in real life, he was often afraid to challenge Nero

He felt sorry for himself while an exile. He chased wealth and fame to say this is not to indict him But to show the difference between theory and practice take the first century BCE stoic diotimus Diotimus was from what we know, a great writer and philosopher, but he is most famous to us as a literary fraud and as a mean spirited person. The Stoic who is sentenced to death for framing and libeling Epicurus. It was as if Dio Timus forgot that philosophy

wasn't a profession like plumbing or baseball, one that you can be good at while you're on the clock, but then you get to go home and you're free to behave, however you like. No philosophy is a calling. It's a way of living. It's a lifestyle. As Epic Tita said, we can't just talk about our philosophy, have to embody it. So that's the question for you.

You are listening to this podcast. Maybe you're even doing your own writing about stoicism, but are you living it? If your biography was put to the test, would it pass? Could you be proven in a court of law as having lived up to your philosophy? Or is it just something you pay lip service to? As we've said before, we get philosophy wrong when we focus too much on what the philosophers say, no, it's about what they do. It's about what you do. Today, tomorrow under pressure, under temptation, when you're angry, when you're desperate,

when you don't think anyone is watching. The stoics themselves didn't always pass this test, which is something we should study and learn from. Other times, they passed it with incredible grandeur, and it chills your bones, and that too something we should study and learn from. And look we are very excited to announce lives of the Stoics, the art of living from Xenota Marcus Aurelias, the

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