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What the Stoics Actually Meant by Practice
Epictetus did not write books. He ran a school where students lived for years, practising responses to insults, hardship and loss. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a daily training regimen, the same ideas over and over, drilling them into his reflexes. Seneca reviewed his day every single night for decades.
The Stoics were not building a library. They were building a gymnasium for the soul.
Somewhere along the way we forgot this. We turned philosophy into content to consume. We read about the exercises instead of doing them. In this episode I explore what Stoic training actually…
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