Speaker 3: island by his students, and they thought they were coming to cheer him up. He would cheer them up when they got there and listen to their problems, because what did he dio? He did what he could with what he had where he waas. He was the target of injustice and yet refused to play the role of victim of injustice. It's a different mindset altogether. Ah, victim might wallow in self pity. A target rises and thinks, What am I going to do next in order to minimize the harm that this targeting has done to me?
Speaker 0: Mm. So there were three techniques that he practiced to minimize the harm that was done to him. And I want to discuss them one by one because I
Luke's Note
Trichotomy of Control: you either have no control, some control, or total control.
Speaker 0: You've spent decades reading about and trying to emulate some of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. I'm wondering if you could tell me the story of Macedonia's Rufus. I understand he ran ah, foul of an emperor and was banished to a desolate island, but survived it in some ways by drawing on the same philosophical tradition that is informed your own life.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the stoic philosophers had an unfortunate tendency to get in trouble with the powers that be and to be banished by them. So several of the most famous stoics spent time banished. You get sent out to an island in the island that Macedonia's was sent to was one of the particularly bad islands