Can You Do This Even Here? | It's In Your Self-Interest

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. Can you do this even here? It was one of the noisiest places in the noisiest city in the world.

It was big enough that it would stun you even now. The baths of Diocletian in ancient Rome could accommodate more than three thousand people. at a time. People from all over the empire came there to wash off, to work out, to socialize, to primp and relax. Seneca found the noise of the baths intolerable.

He describes the sound of fat men being massaged, people jumping in the water, obnoxious people in love with their own voices, vendors hawking their wares, even a thief being arrested outside. It's loud enough, she said, to make you hate your own ears. So you might think that in order to write, which he was desperately Trying to do.

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