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Wake Up, Do Your Work: The Stoic Cure for Stagnation
Silence as Power: Why Speaking Destroys Your Inner Freedom
There is a sharp, ancient prescription for the feeling that your life is on pause: Marcus Aurelius wrote a command to himself-"As soon as you wake up, say to yourself: I must get up and do my work as a human being"-while at war and during a plague. If an emperor, a slave, and an exiled philosopher acted without ideal conditions, what internal move made that possible?
In this episode, we present Stoic remedies for the gap between knowing and doing and trace how Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca confronted stagnation in active…
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