{"podcast":{"title":"Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)","slug":"dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","podcast_index_feed_id":7153387,"rss_url":"https://feeds.transistor.fm/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year","website_url":"https://perennial.substack.com","image_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/r4fig9TBtCWAsS2j5Xcs2F5bj2BhdAvU3GNP2_RSVBA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81MGM0/NjFhZGE3ZDI1MjZj/ZmJkMzEwNjQ1NGI3/YTRkMy5wbmc.jpg","author":"J.W. Bertolotti","episode_count":166,"summary":"Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-10T16:19:21.028613+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387"},"episode":{"title":"Day 147: What Are You Running From?—Seneca and Socrates on Solitude | Dying Every Day","slug":"day-147-what-are-you-running-from-seneca-and-socrates-on-solitude-dying-every-day","published_at":"2026-05-20T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-147-what-are-you-running-from-seneca-and-socrates-on-solitude-dying-every-day","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387","url":"https://share.transistor.fm/s/3a35fa6d","audio_url":"https://media.transistor.fm/3a35fa6d/51e52f6c.mp3","summary":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 147. “Know thyself,” the words inscribed at the entrance to the Temple of Apollo at Delphi. Not know the world. Not know the gods. Know yourself—and understand that until you do, everything else you investigate is a distraction from the only question that finally matters. The question this meditation wants to sit with is not whether you know yourself. It is whether you have given yourself any real opportunity to find out. And beneath that, what you believe self-knowledge is actually for. For this reason, Seneca advised Lucilius to “withdraw into yourself as much as you can.” [...] --- 🖇️ 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: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts","meta_description":"📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 147. “Know thyself…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":802,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/episodes/day-147-what-are-you-running-from-seneca-and-socrates-on-solitude-dying-every-day/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/dying-every-day-stoicism-in-a-year-7153387/day-147-what-are-you-running-from-seneca-and-socrates-on-solitude-dying-every-day.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}