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Being Better: An Interview with Kai Whiting and Leonidas Konstantakos – Episode 50
Stoicism On Fire
Is Providence Good Luck or Bad Luck?
The ancients took what we call luck to be divine providence, and therefore they saw it as something that was destined but could not have been foreseen or changed. The Stoics would sometimes use i interchangeablyd at least say it's translated m as as luck, or whatever else. What providence has given me, and this is why we quote you in the book, is an opportunity to be tested, in the sense of my character. It doesn't mean that we need a challenge, an external challnge t pep all the time that we need an i need a challenge at work in order to show that i am flourishing.
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