The Daily Stoic - This Is How You Learn

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

"It was Seneca who told us how to learn from history and literature. Ignore the facts and figures, he said, focus on the moral lessons. Focus on what the characters can teach you about life. Plutarch, the great moral biographer of history, would take this lesson to heart. Unlike the biographers of our time, who publish big, thick books filled with footnotes and postmodern digressions, Plutarch was obsessed by what we could learn from the figures he wrote about."Ryan discusses the lessons you should be taking from the biographies you read in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.Preorder Lives of the Stoics, Ryan's new book, and receive one of the wonderful preorder bonuses that's available: http://dailystoic.com/preorder***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 dailystowach.com. This is how you learn. It was Seneca who told us how to learn from history and literature. Ignore the facts and figures he said, focus on the moral lessons, focus on what the characters can teach you about life. Plutarch, the great moral biographer of history, would take this lesson to heart. As a little coincidence, his grandson was Mark Serelius' philosophy instructor. Unlike the biographers of R. time who publish

big, thick books filled with footnotes and postmodern digressions. Plutarch was obsessed by what we could learn from the figures he wrote about. He wanted to look at Caesar's brilliance and his fatal ego, just as he wanted us to admire Kato's austere self-discipline alongside his intractability and failure to compromise. He wanted to get to the essence of great men and women so that he might inspire us to follow in their footsteps. For neither is it histories we are writing, he said, but lives. Nor is there by any means display of merit or vice in the most outstanding actions, but often a trivial matter as well as a remark and some sort of joke and remarks and jokes have offered a better illustration of character than clashes with the countless casualties and the biggest battalions in the sieges of cities. And it's on this model that I based lies of the Stoics, the art of living from Xenota

Marcus Aurelius. While there is so much to learn from someone like Seneca's letters, there is just as much to be learned in the way he lived. The remarks that Seneca made under the threat of death or while he was sent to exile have more sincerity in them than all of his polished essays and plays. And so it goes with Marcus Aurelius.

What he did as emperor is just as important as what he meditated on the private pages of meditations. And what of Xeno and Clientes, when most of their writings didn't survive, all we have is their example and we should study it. So for the last two years, I have been hard at work on lives of the Stoics with my co-author Steve Hanselman who I collaborated with on the Daily Stoic, which put this biographies and the most important and most interesting Stoics. It's the only time in place they've ever been all put in one volume. They've never been as readable or as accessible as they are in this book. We study the lives of these men and

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