Siege is this whole idea of your inner citadel or your best version of you, right? Yes. The ancient Chinese philosophers Confucis and Lao Su talked about being your sage - the stoics variously talk about either an inner sage or a sage that you're interested in. And I actually prefer that idea of it being inner rather than outer. What Nietzsche referred to as the Uberman: You're going to create the best version of yourself and then give it a little sprinkling of steroids.
My guest today is Kasey Pierce. Kasey is a writer/editor and Stoic columnist from Detroit. She began her career in indie horror and sci-fi, working with publishers like Source Point Press. Shortly after beginning to blog about Stoic philosophy, she was called back to her comic roots and received the opportunity to freelance content edit for Donald Robertson for his graphic novel, "Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius". Her most current work is editing for CBT practitioner and Stoicism author Tim Lebon for "365 Ways to Be More Stoic", in which she wrote some original content. Her forthcoming work is coauthoring a book with CBT practitioners and Stoicism authors, Scott Waltman and R. Trent Codd, "How to Think Like Socrates".
Check out Kasey's range of excellent articles on her medium profile.
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