Stoic Advice for the Problems We All Face

Shopping at Whole Foods is one of the things I do on our family. Like, the grocery shopping is my job, so I was glad to be able to do that even on vacation. And then, you know, being here in Hawaii, it was the same Whole Foods experience we're thinking about, but then also a bunch of regional stuff too that they only have at this Whole Foods. We love shopping at Whole Foods because there's always new flavors and foods to choose from whichever Whole Foods you are like, whichever Whole Foods you happen to be at. So save on regional flavors at Whole Foods Market, and, maybe I'll see you at the Whole Foods in Austin sometime. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey. It's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the daily stoic podcast. Back in February, I was in San Diego doing a talk. It was lovely. I'm actually gonna be doing a bunch more talks. We just put up, I think, five dates in The US and then five dates in New Zealand and Australia. So you wanna come see me in Sydney or in Perth or in Detroit or Portland or San Francisco. There's a bunch of other dates on there. We've got five more US dates coming too as well. You can grab tickets for that over at dailystoiclive.com. All the events have been selling out, so grab those tickets sooner rather than later. And come see me. The q and a is my favorite part, and, I hope to see you all there. Here's some questions that the folks in San Diego asked me. With everything that Marcos already has had going on, did he have friends? Yeah. That's a good question. I think so. I mean, he doesn't have a chapter in meditations talking about his besties or anything, but the opening of the book is him thanking all these people that were in his life. It it wasn't a solitary lonesome life. I think he did have friends. I think he he spent time with people. We have some of his letters that he writes to his rhetoric teacher, Fronto, who clearly becomes a lifelong friend. Did Marcus have the best time of all the Stoics? Probably not. I think Seneca had a had a better time. And letters of a stoic is Seneca writing letters to his friend Lucilius, and they seem to have a a real close relationship. So, like, we can only guess, and there's certainly nothing in stoicism that says you have to be a lone wolf and love no one and be attached to nothing and and never have fun. That that to me is not what the philosophy is at all. But I think we could all probably use, especially if you are introverted or philosophically inclined to sort of get up from our books …