Epictetus’ Insights About When Someone Gets What You Don’t

when you start feeling envious, think things through

Gregory Sadler
Practical Rationality
5 min readMar 1, 2024

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James Ensor, The Cabbage (Wikimedia Commons)

Great thinkers set out many insights helpful for us in late modern life. From time to time, I produce short podcast episodes mining and refining those insights. Here’s one from the ancient Stoic philosopher Epictetus that I’ve found useful in my life and my studies.

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Gregory Sadler
Practical Rationality

president ReasonIO | editor Stoicism Today | speaker philosophical counselor & consultant | YouTube philosophy guy | co-host Wisdom for Life | teaches at MIAD