The Daily Stoic - Things Are Not That Different

Episode Date: February 2, 2021

“We live in the glorious future. Yet somehow it is exactly the same as the past. The scourge of the ancient world: Pirates. Pompey fought them in Cato’s time. Bandits and highwaymen. Countless Romans suffered their depretations. Epictetus had his house broken into by one. Plagues. Marcus Aurelius lived through a decade and a half of one, likely dying of it himself.”Ryan explains why there is nothing new under the sun, and why we should be prepared for the same trials that have come before us, 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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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowat.com. Things are not that different. We live in the glorious future. Yet somehow, it is exactly the same as the past. The scourge of the ancient world pirates, Pompey fought them in Kato's time, bandits, and highwaymen, countless Romans suffered their depredations. A Petitus had his house broken into. Plagues, Marcus Aurelius lived through a decade and a half of one, likely dying of it

himself. Today, pirates still travel the seas off the coast of Africa, and accepted reality of global trade. Cars are still flagged down on roads and robs. Puerto Rico, for instance, has a particular problem with Uber and Uber Eats drivers being targeted. Houses are still broken into. We are living as you read this through a massive pandemic that governments have been powerless

to stop. Such is life. The same thing happening over and over again as Marcus really has pointed out. It's the same winds repeating circling the earth returning again, as the Bible says. The more things change, the more they say. It goes the expression. What does it mean? It doesn't mean anything except to remind us that we are following these 2,000-year-old strategies which themselves have roots that go back further. Humans haven't changed. Our problems haven't really changed, or just as flawed as we were

back in Rome and Greece, just as vulnerable to fate. So we do this work, we do this reading, we prepare ourselves for what is to come. Thanks for listening to the Daily Stove Podcast, And if you didn't know, I also have another podcast and Daily Email. Every day I write something at dailydad.com, which gets delivered to thousands of people all over the world. I record the meditations just like this one on the podcast for free. So if you're a parent, if you know a parent, if you're an expecting parent, I think you'd really like it.

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