You Can Skip This Part of the Nightmare | Stoicism, Across the World

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 can skip this part of the nightmare. You screwed up. You got screwed, you were fired, you were cheated on, you were humiliated after years of service, you failed in public, you made an inexcusable mistake, somebody else's mistake cost you big. The mob is piling on, gleefully so.

This happens as it has happened to people for as long as there has been such a thing as society. And what happens most of the time that this happens? It is a life changing event, and it often turns that person into a different kind of person. They get bitter, they get angry, they get radicalized. The first fate is not something we can prevent, at least not at this point.

The second one we can spare ourselves that. Rutilius Rufus was brought up on false charges, so was Seneca. Agrippinus and Epictinus were exiled. Marcus Aurelius's wife, Faustina, may have been completely unfaithful to him. Or perhaps she was a victim of totally unfair rumors about her virtue.

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