Jemma Spike

He miraculously survived this shipwreck.

Then after the shipwreck, he came back to Athens.

Whilst he was there,

He was feeling very enlightened by this near-death experience, also a little bit bored.

So he went into a bookshop and he found the writings of a very famous philosopher called Socrates, who you may probably have heard of.

And he was so enthralled by this writing, so impressed that he basically became friends with all these philosophers.

He wanted to be around them all the time.

He decided he was going to become a philosopher.

He changed.

He had a little career change, very 20-something of him.

And

He started thinking a lot about life and about death and about all these other things.

And through that, he constructed Stoicism, which developed a very large following.

Fun fact, the name Stoicism actually comes from Stoa Pokoli, which is painted porch, I think, in Greek.

And him and his disciples used to sit on this porch and talk about life.

And that's where the name Stoicism came from.

Very, very whimsical.

So at the heart of this philosophy is the belief that everything around us operates according to a web of cause and effect.

And that results in the rational structure of the universe that the Stoics called Logos.

Within this universal structure is the core Stoic belief that the world just has to be dealt with as it is.