Who Can Teach Us More? | Stick With Just The Facts
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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. Who can teach us more? He had to rule over millions of people. He had to oversee millions of square miles. He had to command an army, he dealt with critics and sycophants.
There were the downsides of fame, the burden of wealth. Marcus Aurelius had problems, big problems, but they were mostly problems of power. They were the problems of privilege. Epictetus also had problems. He had a terrible boss, he was exploited, he was exiled, he was kicked around, he was disabled, he was robbed,
Epictetus's problems were the problems of powerlessness. He had real life problems. Epictetus can perhaps speak to us more than because he didn't live in a palace. He wasn't born into privilege or money. He fought misfortune and adversity, not other armies.
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