Seneca - Moral Letters - 20: On Practising what you Preach

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  • @VoxStoica
    @VoxStoica  5 років тому +2

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  • @djkrptdnb
    @djkrptdnb 4 роки тому +10

    The theory of practicing what you preach is obviously easier in preach than it is in practice - but even a small effort in the right direction every day can be respected.

    • @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200
      @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 4 роки тому +1

      Do you know how Seneca lived? He thought Emperor Nero was beyond influence so he took the path to certain death rather than conforming.. He did put his ducks in a row

    • @liambrereton2641
      @liambrereton2641 3 роки тому +1

      But the practice of preaching to practice what you preach is easier to practice than it is to preach, because preaching that becomes slightly confusing.

    • @djkrptdnb
      @djkrptdnb 3 роки тому +1

      @@liambrereton2641 how much preaching would a practicing preacher preach if a practicing preacher could practice preaching?

    • @liambrereton2641
      @liambrereton2641 3 роки тому

      @@djkrptdnb About 700 lbs. Sometimes I preach my lack of a practice like a practice. Other times I preach my lack of preaching my practice like a practice like a practice.

  • @Mad_S
    @Mad_S 4 роки тому +4

    No one:
    Seneca: lemme tell you about my man.

  • @daridari755
    @daridari755 2 роки тому

    I find it difficult to practise what I preach. Helpful video to highlight the importance of consistency of your actions with you words.

  • @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200
    @malikialgeriankabyleswag4200 4 роки тому +4

    The more I hear him decry desire the more I think he's advising you to unbridle your Will.. Because if you have an aim and are engaged in it, you're in the moment and using the Laws of Cause and effect.. As soon as you desire you take yourself out of your present and your Will is bridled and you're thrown off course.. Its cool because Nietzsche said the fettering of the Will is the cause of all mental illness.. And he said the biggest agent thereof is "it was".. "It was" is the force which wishes for things to have been different, pretty much Desire.. And he says the anti-dote is "Thus I shall will it to be", which is applying yourself in the present and only desiring that you do what you want done in your control.. Yet for some reason Nietzsche dismissed the stoics in his little Anti-European tradition rants.. I think he painted European philosophy with way too broad a brush! He wasnt paying attention to the Stoics lol

  • @ohad157
    @ohad157 7 років тому +7

    Damnnnnn

  • @Ggb427neo
    @Ggb427neo 5 років тому +1

    Wow this concern me so much

  • @liambrereton2641
    @liambrereton2641 3 роки тому

    Oh! I thought he was gonna say don't do it.

  • @djkrptdnb
    @djkrptdnb 4 роки тому +1

    Get your own ducks in a row before you head out for hunting season