The Highest Power

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This is the April 28th entry in the daily stoic The highest power this is a quote from one of Seneca's most brutal and fascinating plays Theesties which is worth reading. In the modern world our interactions with tyranny are a bit more voluntary than they were in ancient times. Rory McElroy actually I think it was he read this entry of the Daily Stoke And then he was asked to join this new golf league and he quoted that Bill Cunningham line that he got from the book He said if they don't take the money they can't tell you what to do You want to find what you want to do in life the place you want to be Then you have to be able

We look back on things we clearly messed up. We were too preoccupied. We were too harsh. We were wrong. We didn’t know.

And because we messed up, we feel guilty. We regret what could have been. We’re mad at ourselves. We wallow in pity or shame.

Dr. Edith Eger, the Holocaust survivor, cut through all this with her graceful bluntness on the Daily Stoic podcast recently (she’s been on twice, both episodes are must listens). “I’ll give you a sentence,” she said. “If I knew then, what I know now, I would have done things differently.”

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And in today's excerpt from the Daily Stoic, Ryan explores why "the highest power is no power if you desire nothing."

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