This is How You Die Before Your Time
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. This is how you die. before your time.
It might help you stay in the game, it might make you successful, it might even keep you alive. Worked for Seneca, right? He did what he had to do. He never criticized. Made some money. Had some influence. Got some things done.
But ultimately it came at the cost of his soul. Seneca, who wrote about how we are dying every day, also died before his time in the way he collaborated and capitulated. To Nero's insanity and tyranny. He was not unlike certain politicians today who in exchange for power give up their power to be on the right side of the regime. It was not unlike certain people today who turn off their consciences to
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