You Should Be In The Thick of It | How Oprah Discovered Stoicism
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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. You should be In the thick of it.
It was the center of the world. Rome was the caput mundi. The head of the world. And a forum was the center. Wrong.
It is there in the forum that you found the stoics. Cato was there giving speeches, so was Cicero. Helvidius challenged Vispassian to his face there. More than two centuries later, Marcus Aurelius stood on the Rasta of and delivered a funeral oration for Antoninus Pius there.
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