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Have you ever mourned about the death of a white blood cell in your body? No? Well in this episode we discuss why the universe feels much the same way about you, and how that is not actually sad.
A few thousand years ago Marcus said:
Take a view from above — look at the thousands of flocks and herds, the thousands of human ceremonies, every sort of voyage in storm or calm, the range of creation, combination, and extinction. Consider too the lives once lived by others long before you, the lives that will be lived after you, the lives lived now among foreign tribes; and how many have never even heard your name, how many will soon forget it, how many may praise you now but quickly turn to blame. Reflect that neither memory nor fame, nor anything else at all, has any importance worth thinking of.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.28
We explore what it means to struggle well, what human suffering looks like and how to get relief from our struggles from doing a Stoic exercise of taking the view from above.
In our Stoic reimagining we talk through how Toby Keith's song "I Wanna Talk About Me" might be different if he were a stoic. And discuss our thoughts on Taylor Swifts "The Era's Tour."
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Have you ever mourned about the death of a white blood cell in your body? No? Well in this episode we discuss why the universe feels much the same way about you, and how that is not actually sad.
A few thousand years ago Marcus said:
Take a view from above — look at the thousands of flocks and herds, the thousands of human ceremonies, every sort of voyage in storm or calm, the range of creation, combination, and extinction. Consider too the lives once lived by others long before you, the lives that will be lived after you, the lives lived now among foreign tribes; and how many have never even heard your name, how many will soon forget it, how many may praise you now but quickly turn to blame. Reflect that neither memory nor fame, nor anything else at all, has any importance worth thinking of.
— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.28
We explore what it means to struggle well, what human suffering looks like and how to get relief from our struggles from doing a Stoic exercise of taking the view from above.
In our Stoic reimagining we talk through how Toby Keith's song "I Wanna Talk About Me" might be different if he were a stoic. And discuss our thoughts on Taylor Swifts "The Era's Tour."