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#226 - Ryan Holiday - Taking Wisdom From The Lives Of The Stoics

Modern Wisdom

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The Rich Men Talking About Resilience

Even the richest man in rome would have had to be far more resilient than probably your average person. So i think resilience was a real fact of life. Ye, you mentioned that, apart from epictetus, most of the stoics were rich, or famous or poweerful? Why were rich men talking about resilience? Is it just armchair philosophizing about problems that they had the luxury not to encounter? I mean, a maybe a little bit.

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