What the World’s Richest and Most Powerful People Get Wrong (with Stephanie Ruhle)
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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. We think it's going to give us power. Right? We think it's going to give us autonomy. We think it's going to give us control.
This is what money and success in politics are about. Except, this goes all the way back to the Stoics, it rarely ends up that way. Like, you think you're going to have the job. And in fact, the job ends up having you. You think you're going to have the title.
The title ends up having you. You think Marcus Relius has it made. And in fact, Marcus Aurelius is is probably the least free man in Rome. That's the fascinating thing about Epictetus's writings, is like Epictetus is a slave in the court of Nero, but he looks around and he realizes that he has it better than most of these people. certainly as better than the than the emperor who is vain and paranoid and delusional and insecure and a slave to his appetites, a slave to his ego.
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