Who is Seneca? (Rome's Greatest Stoic Thinker)

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For a boy born in a tiny village in Southern Spain-some 1,500 miles away from the place he dreamed of making a name for himself-it would please Lucius Annaeus Seneca very much to know we are still talking about him today.
His fellow Stoics wrote at length about the worthlessness of celebrity, the foolishness of chasing posthumous fame, the inevitably of time passing and sweeping our names into obscurity.
Seneca studied those philosophers. He read those writings. He agreed with them.
“The deep flood of time will roll over us,” he wrote. “Some few great men will raise their heads above it.” But most are “destined...to depart into the same realms of silence, [to] battle against oblivion.”
Aware as Seneca was of the improbability of lasting significance, it didn’t deter him. If anything, it propelled him. In a way, it only reaffirmed what he already knew.
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@jaxx-inspiregrowcreate2862
@jaxx-inspiregrowcreate2862 3 жыл бұрын
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. -Seneca
@punkeasy
@punkeasy 3 жыл бұрын
Or when click-bait meets idiots.
@bighoss7506
@bighoss7506 Жыл бұрын
@@punkeasy You’re watching too, you got baited
@auralunaa
@auralunaa 3 жыл бұрын
“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it. Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested" - Seneca 😍 If you haven't already, read the Seneca "On The Shortness of Life" - such a great book that really gets you reflecting on time. Tick, tock. Tick, tock.
@alphagonist4748
@alphagonist4748 Жыл бұрын
Tiktok
@positivp
@positivp Жыл бұрын
But it is short..more so for others but you can go any day so life is short. Was short for my brother at 19
@Fascistbeast
@Fascistbeast Жыл бұрын
@@alphagonist4748 Haha exactly
@killuame2742
@killuame2742 5 ай бұрын
Thank you I hope there is audiobooks
@NenaLavonne
@NenaLavonne 3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely still relevant ♥️ Some words actually become even more true as they age. ✨
@georgeimmanuel4850
@georgeimmanuel4850 3 жыл бұрын
That's Lindy effect
@AngelsMindsetPR
@AngelsMindsetPR 10 ай бұрын
His teachings have made a great impact in my life.
@HenryHale
@HenryHale 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ryan for another beautiful lesson. Wishing you much success with your new book.
@gracefitzgerald2227
@gracefitzgerald2227 3 жыл бұрын
What a great way to start my morning, a new book by Ryan Holiday, and lessons from Seneca. Thank you for the wisdom.
@Bdubya38
@Bdubya38 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you Ryan for tenaciously writing these books. They have opened my eyes to so many new ways of thinking and how to live as a better person. Cheers
@lakramjaggai6084
@lakramjaggai6084 3 жыл бұрын
great a new book ! I'm confident that you've composed this book in the most practical way possible, can't wait to read
@tonygolledge7906
@tonygolledge7906 3 жыл бұрын
Well structured and delivered. Many thanks!!!
@qwuifffle
@qwuifffle Жыл бұрын
"It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture."-Seneca
@enzoberka431
@enzoberka431 5 ай бұрын
as long as you live keep learning to live
@DronesTwinkies
@DronesTwinkies 3 жыл бұрын
I cant wait to listen to this. Ryan i loved all your books.
@Jbalaji
@Jbalaji Жыл бұрын
Your videos and presentations are excellent. Thank you so much for bringing such wonderful teachings to us. - Warm regards - Balaji - Sydney - Australia
@dallasleec
@dallasleec 3 жыл бұрын
Dude your channel is awesome. One of the best. Thank you
@StoicEvolution1
@StoicEvolution1 7 ай бұрын
Marcus Aurelius: "Our life is what our thoughts make it."
@iwonder6221
@iwonder6221 3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much bro for making this video 💯💯💯
@pukus123
@pukus123 3 жыл бұрын
Beautifully Narrated! Great job, Ryan.
@pushansblog1046
@pushansblog1046 3 жыл бұрын
only makes me stronger!! when I listen to these audios
@allanwastani8268
@allanwastani8268 3 жыл бұрын
Great motivation, thnks alot for ,making this video.
@heekyungkim8147
@heekyungkim8147 3 жыл бұрын
Really interesting explanation. Thanks. I would like to order the book.
@justaworkingbloke6537
@justaworkingbloke6537 3 жыл бұрын
Most definitely getting this book!!
@nnotny
@nnotny 3 жыл бұрын
One thing I've always kept in mind regarding my own life and significance: In a hundred years there will be nobody alive who ever knew me.
@TonyCook7
@TonyCook7 3 жыл бұрын
Purchasing the book now - must have all your books in my collection.
@robbanks5023
@robbanks5023 3 жыл бұрын
Well done , Ryan
@Cinemagoer_64
@Cinemagoer_64 11 ай бұрын
What Nero did to Seneca is really heartbreaking. A righteous man he was! Seneca is one of my very favorite philosopher's if not my favorite.
@nihilo616
@nihilo616 11 ай бұрын
Nero was a brat
@autozyklusi5093
@autozyklusi5093 10 ай бұрын
And Senecas politics were not completly rightous. Pretty big difference between his philosophy and politics
@BobAg_
@BobAg_ 6 ай бұрын
Hardly. Seneca was fully complicit in Nero's barbarism. He was an apologist, and took an active role in discussing and arranging assassinations. One of the hardest things to reconcile is the life he lived and the life he inspires others to live. I don't think he lived up to his own Stoic ideals. His Letters are wonderful, but let's not retcon the historical accounts of his life.
@michaelrichardson989
@michaelrichardson989 Жыл бұрын
I'm really wanting this tome Lives of the Stoics, looks good. Honours and libations to those Forefathers of the West. Thanks and Praises for having access to our collective Ancestral Inheritance.
@D.E.Middleton
@D.E.Middleton 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ryan
@lovenikolatesla846
@lovenikolatesla846 Жыл бұрын
So many things about Seneca is one of my favourite philosophers 🙏
@cornelbacauanu1544
@cornelbacauanu1544 Ай бұрын
Amazing story.
@vidalsaucedo6415
@vidalsaucedo6415 Жыл бұрын
Someone should make a movie about this.
@JoeCiccarone
@JoeCiccarone 3 жыл бұрын
So good.
@TonyCook7
@TonyCook7 3 жыл бұрын
That mysterious music
@Macromental
@Macromental Жыл бұрын
What an epic boss and thinker
@mihiershastri4499
@mihiershastri4499 3 жыл бұрын
How awesome is the background music!! Can anyone tell where can I find it?
@selfhelpchampion9664
@selfhelpchampion9664 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Ryan, we are posting your video on anger management at selfhelpchampion under Understanding Anger🙏❤️selfhelpchampion
@Sabyas_Hub
@Sabyas_Hub 3 жыл бұрын
Ryan Holiday : Seneca of this generation
@nihilo616
@nihilo616 11 ай бұрын
Who?
@782YKW
@782YKW 3 жыл бұрын
Seneca was a great writer.
@mohammedrashid2906
@mohammedrashid2906 7 ай бұрын
Thank
@tedrobbins5811
@tedrobbins5811 3 жыл бұрын
So looking forward to hearing this on Audible!!!!!!!
@chris10hi
@chris10hi 9 ай бұрын
Great
@Dino_Medici
@Dino_Medici 3 жыл бұрын
Holy shit fam! Poured some out for the gods...
@wrestlexwrestlingshorts661
@wrestlexwrestlingshorts661 3 жыл бұрын
Do a video on fearless cato
@drewnelson8692
@drewnelson8692 4 ай бұрын
Bro death by heat and dense air is my new worst way to die...
@jamesrobbins3582
@jamesrobbins3582 3 жыл бұрын
Freedom is not free.
@jamesrobbins3582
@jamesrobbins3582 3 жыл бұрын
No one becomes wise by chance!
@jasonmerryman4452
@jasonmerryman4452 3 жыл бұрын
Ryan, I noticed you had a copy of one of Loeb’s classics on your couch that has both the English and Koine Greek. Have you considered studying Koine Greek to read the stoic philosophers in their original language? I took 5 semesters of koine Greek in college and it’s my dream to read through Seneca, Epictetus, Aurelius, and others in the original.
@omegacardboard5834
@omegacardboard5834 2 жыл бұрын
I believe Seneca wrote in Latin
@javer9706
@javer9706 2 жыл бұрын
Mate, I've lived in Greece for 15 years and attended school there. I was taught both modern and ancient Greek there, and I must tell you that ancient Greek is insanely difficult to learn. Back then I was a geek about Greek language and philosophy, and tried very hard to learn as much as possible. Yet, after 8 years of learning ancient Greek, I still find it hard to understand the scripts from prototype. However, translated in modern Greek these texts are piece of cake to read.
@marcelopendragon1690
@marcelopendragon1690 2 жыл бұрын
Seneca realized at an early age, what so many never do, life is short.................. and so he needed a quick profit, so he forced huge unsolicited loans to British Celtic tribes, and demanded that they pay back with interest shortly thereafter....... How stoic
@heavymeddle28
@heavymeddle28 3 жыл бұрын
What chronic illness did he suffer from? Anyone knows? 🤔 Beautifully made video. Thanks 😊
@heavymeddle28
@heavymeddle28 3 жыл бұрын
@Donald Quirk Hmmm. Sad. Thank you 😊
@jerry-ny7hs
@jerry-ny7hs 3 жыл бұрын
looking forward to " Lives of the Stoics". Todays crazy times are at an all time low because they are global. I hope we can right this ship because our rights are being taken from us . I hope someone will fight this agenda that is not about health or saving lives.
@beingisthebestjoy
@beingisthebestjoy 2 жыл бұрын
Seneca was a real legendary person
@truenorthaffirmations7049
@truenorthaffirmations7049 3 жыл бұрын
Freedom is in our next thought🤘🔥🤘🔥THINK BETTER..better thoughts from another youtuber
@saadmarsil6929
@saadmarsil6929 3 жыл бұрын
Who suffers here of episodes of anxiety where you do not have any will inside you and avoid the tasks that you need to do to strive? I love stoicism and the fact that you can only control your mind, but when you are anxious you cannot control your mind. Or at least I don't. Does anyone has any answer?
@Cinemagoer_64
@Cinemagoer_64 Жыл бұрын
I would highly recommend the CHAANGE program for anxiety and agoraphobia. As a matter of fact it was through this program that I discovered stoicism. The program is drug free and uses cognitive therapy. They also use stoic quotes.
@kyles8396
@kyles8396 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Ryan can you make a video about using stoicism as a "power greater than your own" for AA? I'm an atheist and I'm having a hard time grasping that concept and want to view stoicism or the logos that way.
@peg4847
@peg4847 3 жыл бұрын
check out the book Rational Rational Recovery and online SMART Recovery if you haven't already. Great for the incredulous-at-heart
@peg4847
@peg4847 3 жыл бұрын
Also-I've often thought the 12 steps parallel Marcus Aurelius's 'Meditations'. Nothing new under the sun.
@kyles8396
@kyles8396 3 жыл бұрын
@@peg4847 I've read meditations a few times and I'll check out the other book you recommended. I know Ryan mentioned the 12 step program taking some things from stoicism. I just can't frame stoicism as a power greater than my own. I'm very new to the program and fall into the athiest category. My zoom group is an agnostic one and we haven't talked about step 2 really
@peg4847
@peg4847 3 жыл бұрын
@@kyles8396 great! It's actually Rational Recovery. Typed it twice. SMART Recovery is excellent and there's tons online from them. Bill Wilson's connection with Jung and no doubt Jung, being cognizant of Meditations is the roots of the 12 steps/12 trad. Good luck in your sober quest! Better this way.
@kyles8396
@kyles8396 3 жыл бұрын
@@peg4847 Thank you!!!
@perenetre
@perenetre 3 жыл бұрын
The name of the Spanish sculptor is Eduardo Barrón.
@samuelkkimani514
@samuelkkimani514 3 жыл бұрын
You make me love philosophy.
@pushansblog1046
@pushansblog1046 3 жыл бұрын
Not only Nero all the roman rulers were cruel. I personally do not consider Rome to have any civilisation, at that time.It was uncivilised. Full of despotic cruel and inefficient rulers.It should really be considered as dark age.
@rjpj474
@rjpj474 10 ай бұрын
Ryan Holiday, always selling.
@LookAtDat4ss
@LookAtDat4ss 11 ай бұрын
Yo that was sick ❤ poor Seneca
@Jerry823Coates
@Jerry823Coates 3 жыл бұрын
We not talking about him today I'm just hearing of him and I absolutely love history..... and rome philosophers and historians or phonies and refer to Josephus and claim he was Roman but his own words biography tells who he actually is...
@matthewblackwell9416
@matthewblackwell9416 2 жыл бұрын
What do we think Seneca's female associate meant by her statement that he would die of "consumption"? Does this mean he had an addiction, or did she just do this to save him?
@AsadtheTutor
@AsadtheTutor 2 жыл бұрын
The old-fashioned name for tuberculosis was consumption. It's a lung disease.
@PartyOnDude_
@PartyOnDude_ Жыл бұрын
Consumption is what people used to call tuberculosis
@ArchieMgrk
@ArchieMgrk 2 жыл бұрын
FYI thats Greece in the video
@carlotapuig
@carlotapuig 3 жыл бұрын
"For a boy born in a tiny village in Southern Spain..." What??? Seneca was blessed to be born in Cordoba, the capital of Hispania Baetica, one of the greatest cultural centers of the entire world at that time. Furthermore, his father was one of the greatest orators in the history of the Roman Empire. Seneca was destined from the very beginning to become one of the greatest philosophers of the ancient world. He was born at the right place, at the right time, in the right family. Everything played in his favour.
@deanodog3667
@deanodog3667 3 жыл бұрын
I know ffs this guy Ryan holiday is the Jordan Peterson of neo stoics !
@carlotapuig
@carlotapuig 3 жыл бұрын
@@deanodog3667 What do you mean exactly?
@deanodog3667
@deanodog3667 3 жыл бұрын
@@carlotapuig I'm saying holiday is as big a fraud as Seneca and Jordan Peterson!
@carlotapuig
@carlotapuig 3 жыл бұрын
@@deanodog3667 Ryan Holiday definitely doesn't like telling the truth. He's a coward, nothing admirable about that. He makes up stories and ignores facts out of fear of the liberal mobs (BLM, antifa) and for selling books.
@NOVA.PROSPEC
@NOVA.PROSPEC 2 жыл бұрын
@@deanodog3667 Interesting. Who would you prefer over Seneca, and Peterson (for the sake of todays philosophers)? Thanks.
@RemyISnow
@RemyISnow 3 жыл бұрын
“Trumped up charge” lol
@asdfg6h5g7h
@asdfg6h5g7h 3 жыл бұрын
I am unable to order your new book in India.... there is only one seller On amazon selling it at an inflated price... the main issue is the sellers rating is just 55%... do something... make the book available in India!,!,
@shelleyharris2850
@shelleyharris2850 2 жыл бұрын
2.3 Spain village
@DJSTOEK
@DJSTOEK 3 жыл бұрын
💘
@DavidRodriguez-yy6kc
@DavidRodriguez-yy6kc Жыл бұрын
😔
@bolognivm
@bolognivm 2 жыл бұрын
Rome's greatest Stoic thinker is not Seneca but Marcus Aurelius, as Seneca was a power-hungry usurer and hypocrite who was pretty bad at practicing what he preached. However, being a student of Stoicism means that we should learn from his writings and words and see his life as a cautionary tale.
@omegacardboard5834
@omegacardboard5834 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, surprised he called him Rome’s greatest when this guy absolutely loves Marcus Aurelius
@victoriaguidici5574
@victoriaguidici5574 Жыл бұрын
Needs better proofreading. Seneca did not live through the “reins”, but the “reigns” of …. And in addition to typos, someone didn’t run “a fowl” but “afoul” …
@APPLEcrispBISH
@APPLEcrispBISH Жыл бұрын
You sound like David Foster Wallace
@punkeasy
@punkeasy 3 жыл бұрын
Ironic that stoicism be used as a clickbait lure for a pen and ink campaign. Is there a free version either audio or pdf download available.
@sambarryofficial
@sambarryofficial 3 жыл бұрын
100% HIGH WHILE WATCHING THIS
@joedavis4150
@joedavis4150 3 жыл бұрын
... Boy, what a messy life Seneca had. Ego Gone Wild. He should have read The Tao Te Ching, if it was around then.
@yankee2666
@yankee2666 3 жыл бұрын
What a completely asinine comment.
@natnaelfasil9174
@natnaelfasil9174 3 жыл бұрын
Shaking perspective how to endure even if you have plenty of excuses to whine and to give up.
@drlca6601
@drlca6601 Жыл бұрын
reigns*
@Efexpe
@Efexpe Жыл бұрын
Life is what you make it. Your path is your own but let me say this: the more you look in. The bigger the picture gets. Humans are not any different than a chicken or a virus. The more you look. The more you see. A chicken doesnt do much. But from his perspective, its everything. Think of the mayflies who never experience night time. Life is what you make it and the more you look. The more you can see
@dotdashdotdash
@dotdashdotdash 3 жыл бұрын
The representations of Seneca with a beard and a full head of hair have long been proven to be inaccurate, the bust of Seneca that was found shows he was balding and clean shaven.
@veronica0076
@veronica0076 3 жыл бұрын
Aaaa aa aa asaa
@c-LAW
@c-LAW 11 ай бұрын
7:40 The point o f Stoicism is to make you better in the real world. Why?
@ThomasDohertyJD
@ThomasDohertyJD 2 жыл бұрын
Need an editor for the captions of the narration. The "rein" of Caesar? Try reign. Running "a fowl" of Nero? It's afoul. Also other apostrophe and spelling mistakes. Voice to text is not perfect technology
@Human_Evolution-
@Human_Evolution- 3 жыл бұрын
Don't show the psuedo-Seneca bust as if it is Seneca.
@nnotny
@nnotny 3 жыл бұрын
Really? That's your big takeaway from all this?
@Human_Evolution-
@Human_Evolution- 3 жыл бұрын
@@nnotny yes, and no.
@evangelosdikopoulos7213
@evangelosdikopoulos7213 8 ай бұрын
Why are you showing Athens all the time? Seneca lived in Rome
@isaelnavarrete3701
@isaelnavarrete3701 Жыл бұрын
Seneca was ready to die Its all he talked about
@SubwayToTheSun
@SubwayToTheSun 3 жыл бұрын
Am I really the only one commenting on the spelling mistakes in the translation? And English is not even my mother tongue ... More importantly, it seems that not everything he says, is true or at least correctly interpreted.
@HostileLemons
@HostileLemons 3 жыл бұрын
Just another reason to hate Nero. Gosh that guy was cruel.
@mihir2077
@mihir2077 3 жыл бұрын
Markus Aurelius: am I a joke to you?
@tullamorejameson480
@tullamorejameson480 3 жыл бұрын
History: No, but your son is *Commodus cries in the distance*
@ramaraksha01
@ramaraksha01 3 күн бұрын
The top 2 religions of the day say the goal is pleasures of the flesh for eternity - sit around doing nothing, an idle, lazy, useless, pointless existence for eternity & that too a shameless freeloader existence And how do we get that? Down on our knees, beg, grovel, make sure we kiss the right butt for only those who kiss the right butt are rewarded, the rest dumped into hell to be tortured for all eternity simply because they failed to kiss the right butt All these big talks from the author of this video to those posting - ALL of them hope for the above! Talk is cheap! Talk big and then grovel for the pleasures of the flesh!
@modernmonk3676
@modernmonk3676 Жыл бұрын
History repeating again. No different than his time
@sk8corpuz
@sk8corpuz 3 жыл бұрын
No stoic would care if they were remembered. Seneca was a man of principle but like Confucius had too many rules. Text in the middle of the screen ruins the pictures. The cadence sounds like it's being read for the first time or chopped & recorded one sentence at a time. Aurelius was way cooler
@deanodog3667
@deanodog3667 2 жыл бұрын
" born with a chronic illness!" , he had asthma ffs lol !!
@EliasVergsen
@EliasVergsen 2 жыл бұрын
that is literally a chronic illness even today.
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