Where Does It Get You? | Keeping "The News" In Check
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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. Where does it get you?
How does Pompeii illustrate timeless human behaviors?
People have been doing the same things for as long as there have been people. That's what you realize when you walk the streets of Pompeii, which we were just talking about. We have people buying fancy real estate to impress others. We have people chasing trends. We have people writing their names on walls. We have people waiting in line at street vendors. We have people trying to get out of the heat. You have people going to the gym. In short, you have all the things that Marcus Aurelius lists in his haunting passage about the things that happened in the age of Vespasian.
What lesson does Marcus Aurelius draw from life in the age of Vespasian?
He talks about how back then, just as now, you had people doing the exact same thingsβ marrying, raising children, getting sick, dying, waging war, throwing parties, doing business, farming, flattering, boasting, distrusting, plotting, hoping others will die, complaining, falling in love, putting away money, seeking high office and power. But the haunting part of that passage, which was an observation about the final third of the first century AD, is the last line. And that life they led is nowhere to be found, he writes. The age of Vespasian ended in June 79 AD. Four months later, so too did Pompeii, when it was buried after the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius. So you think about the people who accumulated those impressive states in that pretty little city.
You think about the things people argued about or the parties they threw. You think of the offices they sacrificed for, the favors they did and hoped for. And in an instant, they disappeared, as they easily can for us too, as they inevitably will for us too. That's the final lesson from Marcus. Survey the record of other eras, he says.
Why are modern executives more vulnerable outside the office?
and see how many others gave their all and soon died and decomposed into the elements that formed them, but most of all run through the list of those you knew yourself, those who worked in vain, who failed to do what they should have, what they should have remained fixed on and found satisfaction in.
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You got to dress up a little bit. can't show their shoulders, can't wear shorts. So I'm gonna take some of the stuff I bought from Quince, cause it holds up well, looks good, it's fancy without being uncomfortable. I'm gonna try to pack clothes that are light, airy and comfortable, I can use them in multiple settings.
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