This Is What It Means To Be A Stoic

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  This is what it means to be a Stoic. It's sort of strange, if you think about back to when you were a kid, what appeared to be the best part of being an adult. No more school, because that's the example that adults, by and large, set, that education stops, that adulthood is like one long summer break, that graduation is the final destination of learning and studying, investing in your education. But this is a relatively recent phenomenon. Not that long ago, adults prioritized their own education as much as their kids. There's a story of Epictetus teaching one day when a student's arrival caused a commotion in the back of the room. Who was it? Hadrian, the emperor. Hadrian's example clearly had an impact

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  on his successor and adopted grandson, Marcus Aurelius. Late in his reign, friends spotted Marcus going out, carrying a stack of books. "Where are you going?" the man asked. And Marcus, as it happened, was on his way to attend a lecture on Stoicism. "For learning is a good thing," he said, "even when one is growing old. And I am now on my way to Sextus the philosopher to learn that which I do not yet know." In adulthood, Cato had the Stoic philosopher Athenodorus Cordillae come live with him so that he'd continue his studies. Thrasya, one of the Stoics who challenged Nero, continued his studies up until his last breath. And in fact, he was discoursing and studying with Demetrius the cynic when his death sentence from Nero arrived.

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  This is what it means to be a Stoic. To be a Stoic is to be a lifelong student. It's to follow in the footsteps of Hadrian, and Marcus, and Cato, and Thrasya. It's to know that wisdom is an endless pursuit. To believe that one never arrives at some final destination, their education. And of course, this is why we built the Stoicism 101 course, Ancient Philosophy for Your Actual Life, a crash course, a two-week deep dive into what Stoicism is, what it can teach you, and how you carry it forward in your life. We just wrapped up the live cohort a couple of weeks back, but now that's available to everyone who couldn't participate in the live course. You get 14 custom emails over two weeks, 20,000 words of exclusive content.

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