Day 149: Plato's Cave and the Cost of Ignorance | Dying Every Day

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This episode discusses the challenges of pursuing happiness and the importance of understanding what it truly means.

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 149. “All men want to live happily, but when it comes to seeing clearly what makes life happy, they are in the dark. Achieving a happy life is so challenging that the more desperately one pursues it, the more elusive it becomes.” — Seneca, On the Happy Life Seneca is not describing the lazy or the careless. He is describing everyone. Everyone wants a happy life. Everyone is moving toward something they believe will produce it. And yet the more urgently people pursue happiness without first understanding what it actually is, the further they get from it. The wrong road, traveled faster, does not bring you closer to the destination. It carries you further away. [...] #stoicism #philosophy #lifelessons --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts…

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Host: Perennial Leader Project

Topics covered

• Stoicism
• philosophy
• happiness
• self-improvement
• life lessons

Keywords

• Plato's Cave
• cost of ignorance
• Seneca
• happy life
• pursuit of happiness

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