William Eden on Rome, Negative Actualization, and Covid Epistemics (Episode 30)

Want to become more Stoic? Join us and other Stoics this October: Stoicism Applied by Caleb Ontiveros and Michael Tremblay on Maven [http://stoameditation.com/course] "No, we have not picked all the low-hanging fruit yet." In this conversation, Caleb Ontiveros speaks with William Eden – a recovering economist turned biotech venture capitalist. They talk about a wide range of topics: the importance of history, whether Rome is a good analogy to today, Stoicism, voluntary discomfort, negative visualization, and Covid. Twitter [https://twitter.com/WilliamAEden] BecomingEden [http://becomingeden.com/] (00:43) Introduction (01:55) History (13:23) Rome (34:40) Will's Take on Stoicism (58:50) Negative Actualization  (01:07:54) Covid (01:44:06) Lab Leak *** Subscribe to The Stoa Letter for weekly meditations, actions, and links to the best Stoic resources: www.stoaletter.com/subscribe [http://www.stoaletter.com/subscribe] Download the Stoa app (it's a free download): stoameditation.com/pod [http://stoameditation.com/pod] Listen to more episodes and learn more here: https://stoameditation.com/blog/stoa-conversations/ Thanks to Michael Levy for graciously letting us use his music in the conversations: https://ancientlyre.com/