Do You Know Where to Find It? | Why Does Ancient Wisdom Still Surprise Us?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. You know where it's. to find it.

We might not know. It's what we're doing, but we are. We are like the main character in Walker Percy's famous novel The Movie Goer. Engaged in the search. The search for what? For truth, for meaning, for practical wisdom.

That tells us how to handle this confusing thing called life. Bing's polling, Percy's character, like the author himself, finds some of that in the little bits of stoic wisdom that his aunt passes him in the form of notes. And as it happens, this is a timeless tradition she is participating in, one much older than the American South, anyway. In his letters, Seneca tells his friend Lucilius that the key to a good life was to acquire one little bit of wisdom every day. Something to protect against poverty, against death, to fortify oneself against life's misfortunes, she says. and after you have run over many thoughts, Seneca wrote,

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