Three Sentences That Destroy Modern Stoicism

[00:00:00]They wept [music] anyway.

[00:00:02]And they called it the right response.

[00:00:06]Strength includes feeling.

[00:00:08]Suppression is not strength.

[00:00:11]It's avoidance [music] with a costume.

[00:00:14]That's the picture.

[00:00:16]Marcus Aurelius opened [music] his journal with gratitude.

[00:00:20]Seneca built friendship into his definition of wisdom.

[00:00:24]Both men ran [music] empires under impossible pressure and felt every moment of it.

[00:00:30]>> [music] >> That's not contradiction. That's stoicism.

[00:00:34]Feel deeply. Manage skillfully. Act rightly. Now you know what stoicism is not.

[00:00:42]The other half is one specific exercise that does the actual work. The one Marcus practiced every morning.

[00:00:49]It's called memento mori.

[00:00:52]Most people misunderstand that one, too.

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