How can stoicism enhance your daily life? 🤔 #RyanHoliday #Stoicism

And so what are some of the bigger life questions that Stoic philosophy can help address in your day-to-day life or a listener's day-to-day life? That's a good question. I mean, Seneca is saying, you know, the purpose of philosophy is to offer counsel. It's to be a guide. It's to help you solve problems of life. And Thoreau said this as well. He said, you know, the purpose of philosophy is not to found a school or to have subtle thoughts. It's, it's to solve the problems of life, not theoretically, but practically. So for me, Stoicism is, you know, a way of managing your temper. It's also a way of managing your fear of mortality. It's a way of deciding how you're going to treat other people. It's a way of discerning what our obligations to other people are. So when we think of Stoicism, we want to think of it as— it's not a list of 10 Commandments like do this, don't do this. But it is kind of like a set of values that are pretty elastic, pretty flexible, that allow you to translate these ideas into the practical