Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
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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. There are some things that look like strength but aren't. An aggressive, mean person can seem strong, but oftentimes they aren't. It's an act. All cruelty, Seneca wrote, springs from weakness.
The bully almost invariably has been bullied. And so it goes for ego. To the untrained eye it can be mistaken for confidence. The person's self centeredness, their certainty, their entitlement. This seems like the way that only the most important and gifted person in the world could get away with acting.
In reality that person doesn't feel that way inside at all. on the contrary, they feel very small. Nero, for instance, demanded that enormous audiences celebrate his greatness. This was also the same emperor who banished a poet from Rome for being too talented, and thus a threat. We have to be wise enough to recognize these signs of weakness in our leaders, in our bosses, and the people that we look up to, but most of all we have to recognize it in ourselves,
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