It Started Small (Who Would Imagine It Would Make This Far?) | Matt Choi’s Daily Stoic Practice
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. At first there were only a few of them. A small group gathering to hear Zeno teach on the stoa pochi.
The painted porch in Athens. Around three hundred. P C They came to discuss how to live, how to challenge each other, how to become better people. But a porch can only fit so many people.
So the ideas travelled. Students became teachers. Books passed from one person to another, In Rome, Panateus shared the philosophy with Scipio and his friends. Cato practiced it in the Senate. Epictetus taught it to his students. Marcus Aurelius brought it.
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