The Daily Stoic - It’s Not Much, But It Adds Up

Episode Date: November 12, 2020

"Don’t think of wisdom as something you get via epiphany or even a couple years of graduate school. No, it’s something you accumulate day by day—action by action, as Marcus Aurelius put it—over the course of a lifetime."Ryan points out the wisdom that can build up from small steps on today's Daily Stoic Podcast. And for another source of daily wisdom, get your 2021 Daily Stoic Page-a-Day Calendar! They're available now at the Daily Stoic web store: https://store.dailystoic.com/products/daily-stoic-calendar***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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. It's not much, but it adds up. In his letters to Lucilius, Seneca maintains an ongoing exchange with his dear friend. Indeed, you could argue this was the soul or the soul purpose of their letters. Seneca having instructed his friend to find one thing each day that would fortify him against death, despair, fear, or adversity does his best in these letters to provide him with such a takeaway each time. Sometimes it's a quote from one of the stills. Sometimes it's a quote from Epicurus,

that crafty rival of theirs. Sometimes it's an exercise where a story or a command, but in each case, Seneca is explicit. Here's your lesson for the day. He says, here's your one thing. Now, one thing might not seem like a lot, but that's not the point. The point is that not much adds up if you do it a lot. That was Zeno's point when he said that well-being is realized by small steps, but is no small thing. A nugget worthy of one of Senaqa's letters to be sure. And George Washington's favorite expression was that many mickles make a muckle. That's the same idea. Don't think of wisdom as something you get via epiphany or even a couple years of graduate school. No,

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