Wow. This entire video felt really healthy. Like I needed that glass of lemon water and bowl of veggies. Thanks for this.

Goes back to Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules for Life where he says to clean your room - your bedroom. He’s telling us to get control over our lives. Simplifying is the best way to do that, unless you’re Elon Musk.

It's all foolishness. Read Ecclesiastes if you want REAL wisdom.

We all need to fit in and get along or else we get labeled as toxic.

Marcus is one of the philosophical GOATS.

Wow….not very Stoic. 😂

Jung said "be wary of unearned wisdom", not Tim Ferris.

"We have to put up with them and figure out a way to work with them" No.

Thanks! This dropped perfectly at the right time! I'll be watching / Listening to this daily first month of 2025

cringe

can you per chance swing by trump's office??

Funny that if he didn't mention the name "Nero" every second, we would easily believe he was referring to Trump.

Love that you visited Sydney and the Blue Mountains where you can walk and breathe 😊🇦🇺

Amazing how alike trump and Nero are and how similar the US and the ancient Roman Empire are. The earliest Christians who were Jewish called the evil empire The Beast from the Sea and gave it Nero's numbers: 666 for the Greek _Neron Kaisar_ and 616 for the Latin _Nero Caesar._ Cheato has those numbers, too. He did business deals at 666 Fifth Avenue which was owned by his in-laws at the time; and, like a Queens house address, his numerical nomenclature 45-47 becomes 4547 which is the 616th prime number. Coincidence? Or will America be cursed even as the demons are cursed after the return of the King of Kings and Lord of Lords? 🤔

Never do less than your best is perhaps the most asinine and backwards of these rules. I have grown to have my own issues with stoicism, but this one was what probably caused my first real rift with the ideology.

Do I care? No! 😂

We fear failing to the point of failure.

The obstacle is the way - such a powerful Stoic principle!”

YES, BUT...NERO DESTROYED ROME!!!

Beautiful

35:04 the hardest part of climbing the rope is thinking about climbing the rope

Nice MXPX jacket

Great lessons to review for the New Year!

stop using AI!! it steals from artists and rpofits off of putting hardworking people out of business!!

Bros mad trump won 😂

Your videos and advice are always amazing. But this video is one that many need to see and really, truly, hear. I am writing am episode of my next radio show and want to clip from this video. I’ll attempt to get in touch directly with you about this, but if I fail to get a contact point for you, I hope you’ll see this and allow me to clip. I’ll obviously give credits of source. My show is Human Ascension with Ellie on KGRA Digital Radio. My contact info is on my channel, or via KGRA.

Sounds like American’s Nero….rump

So it’s like taking the positives from Cato’s stories, but to also take heed of his early grave and to avoid making those mistakes. Choosing what parts of his story I want to add to mine😯

I remember watching the attack on the Capitol on January 6th and thinking "Oh Trump's not in it for the country, he's in it for himself". He doesn't care about the common people. I have no idea how an event that was the most cut and dry act of insurrection you could ever see could be justified by his supporters, especially after all the evidence came out.

Rome fell under Nero, America U.S. will fall under T-rump. Take it to the bank .

Stoicism leads to stability and level headedness. The ability to experience emotions without being controlled by those emotions is the key to effective leadership.

I started my son reading stoic writings, hes 15. I agree, it can at a minimum make you more thoughtful at your approach to life.

I’m a union leader and I’m totally baffled by the ignorance in the membership and I’m trying to understand. I think it’s the touting of fake populism by Trump while the generic status quo manager candidate democrat tells us everything is good the way it is has a lot more to do about this embarrassing election than simple ignorance and hate

What standard do you use to determine what makes a good human being?

ask Pelosi

Stoicism sure does seem like an easy trick to condition the working class into a slave mentality.

So I guess we've been comparing Donald Trump to the wrong dictator, Hitler. It now appears that he fits more closely with Nero. Thank you for clearing that up.

I took in so much history with your outstanding interview and really enjoy the work both of you offer to the world.

Also, do not let the inevitable prosecution of the media affect you! He will not win as long as you have a semi-decent lawyer and you publicly speak about it.

So I also follow Alex Hormozi. The “no morning routine” is a click bait. He absolutely has a morning routine, it’s just that his morning routine is get up, make coffee, work, then brush teeth and do all that stuff. He just doesn’t package it as a morning routine because he’s trying to be different to win attention

People will eventually learn the mistakes they made. The people who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, and 2020, and 2024 aren’t ALL inherently stupid. Many are misguided, especially the impressionable ones. Some are poor judges of character. However, the non-majority of votes in 2016 (Trump didn’t win the majority) caused a chain reaction of events that have brought the world down into chaos via the self centred narcissism of Trump and majority of the billionaire class such as (Elon Musk). The world heals, however, and the world will move on. Trump will hopefully be gone by 2028 (assuming he does not try to commit treason of the highest degree and use force to hold onto power). Even the Facist tendencies of the Trump administration can not hold down the American people. No one in 1992 would have voted for Donald Trump, because racism was at an all time low. The Third Reich was able to take and hold onto power with xenophobia, and racism along with fearmongering. These are the IDENTICAL tactics of Donald Trump to take power. He has created racial tensions ever since he started campaigning. It has unfortunately worked. Donald Trump has caused fear and hate of Muslims, Mexicans, and other non-white/non-christian racial and religious groups. Manipulating impressionable young men into listening to his ideas with strong words such as “vermin”, he has been able to hold onto the political scene. One of his main goals of his administration since 2016 has been tightening the border. A bipartisan bill that benefited everyone, one that would help the border significantly was close to passing, however, Donald Trump (not even in office at this point) wanted it struck down. It would have hurt his campaign, and his road to power, and so HE wanted to be the one to do it. This all leads back to his narcissism. He wants power, he wants to feel good about himself. He NEEDS people to cuddle up to him and call him a good boy, because in the end. He is just a fragile ego and a little boy in the body of someone who wields too much power for ANYONE to hold. TLDR; All of Trumps tactics and words and his image all hide a fragile and weak ego that is self centred and narcissistic.

That, "Did you always do your best?" question really hit me. I contemplated it for a moment and everything that I've ever done, and I think I actually have always done my best in the situations I've found myself in. My best wasn't always good, but it was certainly the best I could do. For the things that matter, I've continued to redefine what my best is. It's a great question to reflect on, and I'm happy I can answer it in that way.

I will not be bribed by way of womens apartments 😂😂

actually, the 4th crusade destroyed Rome.

My secret power is not caring! Sometimes I still pretend that I do: that's why it is SECRET!

Trump will attack Canada, Panama, Greenland but not Russia hmmmm

Trump is the poster child for overt grandiose narcissism, unlike most other major leaders who hide under the more subtle, covert type. Narcissism seems to be a prerequisite for politics. What a charming system we’ve got! 🤷🏻‍♀️

You can’t say anything negative about Trump that will offend the legion of MAGA freaks you may want to change that thumbnail before the sheep try to track you down 😂

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but ebook titled The Elite Society's Money Manifestation might be the answer you’re looking for, it changed my life

Alas, I wish it were true: Augustus (Octavian), Stalin, Mao. They only "failed in the end", because all humans eventually die.