Living With Virtue: The One Thing That Was Always the Point

Let me start with a question, and I want you to be honest with yourself, because nobody hears your answer but you. If everything you were chasing suddenly vanished, the money, the status, the approval of the people whose opinions you care about most, what would be left of you? Strip all of it away, and what remains? Sit with that for a second. Because whatever remains when everything external is gone, that is the real you. That is your character. And the Stoics believed, with their whole hearts, that this one thing, your character, was the only thing that ever truly mattered. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices