Book · recommended on 2 episodes
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca ISBN 0140442103
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Seneca ISBN 0140442103
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This book by Seneca has come up 2 times on Tim Ferriss. 2 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Sebastian Junger, Tim Ferriss. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2023-07-20 and the most recent from 2024-06-06. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
The power and wealth which Seneca the Younger (C.4 B.C.- A.D. 65) acquired as Nero's minister were in conflict with his Stoic beliefs. Nevertheless he was the outstanding figure of his age. The Stoic philosophy which Seneca professed in his writings, later supported by Marcus Aurelius, provided Rome with a passable bridge to Christianity. Seneca's major contribution to Stoicism was to spiritualize and humanize a system which could appear cold and unrealistic.
“I grabbed it and sat down and I almost started whooping with pleasure I mean I that the things that he was writing 2,000 years ago were so modern so amazing”— Sebastian Junger
The guest here is Jocko Willink and Sebastian Junger: Jocko Willink: retired US Navy SEAL officer, Silver and Bronze Star recipient, co-author of Extreme Ownership, host of the Jocko Podcast, and CEO of Echelon Front. Sebastian Junger: Peabody award-winning journalist, author of five New York Times bestsellers including The Perfect Storm and War, and documentarian behind Restrepo. Tim Ferriss revisits two favorite conversations: Jocko Willink on leadership and discipline, and Sebastian Junger on war, tribe, and PTSD.
“the moral letters to leukelius better known I'd say through penguin as letters from A stoic these are letters of Seneca that I think are very very easily applicable”— Tim Ferriss
The guest here is Tim Ferriss: Author, angel investor, and podcaster (interviewed by Bill Gurley); creator of The 4-Hour Workweek and The Tim Ferriss Show, recounting 20+ years of life and business experiments. Tim Ferriss tells Bill Gurley how a bootstrapped startup, a burnout book, and angel bets built his creator empire.
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