How To Stop Worrying About Money | Epictetus & The Enchiridion (Animated Book Summary)

How To Stop Worrying About Money | Epictetus & The Enchiridion | Stoicism For Money Anxiety | The Dichotomy Of Control | Animated Book Summary It's 3 a.m. and you're staring at a number on a screen, doing the same maths you did yesterday, which changed nothing yesterday. You're not solving anything — you're running the fear in a loop. Two thousand years ago a man named Epictetus would have found that strange, because he owned nothing at all. He was born a slave in Roman Phrygia, owned by a former slave in the household of the emperor Nero, and he walked with a limp his whole life. And he is remembered as one of the freest human beings who ever lived. This animated retelling of his tiny fifteen-page handbook, the Enchiridion, tells the whole story: the philosophy class a slave was somehow allowed to attend, the one idea he built everything on — that some things are up to you and most things are not — why he insisted it's never the event that disturbs you but your opinion of it, the hut with a straw mat and a clay lamp, the thief who stole his lamp and "paid more for it than I did," the ship and the shells, and the day the most powerful man on earth sat down to take notes from a dead crippled ex-slave. Five of Epictetus's own lines are in the video, word for word. This is philosophy, not financial advice — he is spectacularly unhelpful about your balance. What he changes is what the number is allowed to do to you. Chapters: 0:00 3 a.m., the number, and a man born a slave 2:38 The leg, and the man who taught a slave philosophy 5:04 The one idea: what's actually up to you 7:37 It's not the thing — it's your opinion of the thing 9:47 The hut, the lamp, and the man with almost nothing 11:54 Nothing is lost. It's given back 14:06 Play well the part you're given 16:16 The slave who was freer than the emperor — and The Shelf Subscribe to Told, Not Taught for more great books, retold as stories — no lectures, just the story and what it actually means for you. What's one thing you're worried about right now that isn't actually up to you? #Epictetus #Stoicism #BookSummary 📚 The climb so far — one question per book: Rung 1 · Stuck in life? → The Alchemist:    • Stuck In Life and Don't Know What To Do? R...   Rung 2 · Why do I feel so empty? → Man's Search for Meaning:    • Why Do I Feel So Empty? A Holocaust Surviv...   Rung 3 · Caring what people think? → The Courage to Be Disliked:    • How To Stop Caring What People Think — a J...   Rung 4 · How to quiet the noise? → The Power of Now:    • How To Stop Overthinking FOREVER — The Pow...   Rung 5 · Where is your life going? → On the Shortness of Life:    • How To Stop Wasting Your Life — On the Sho...   Rung 6 · How do I find my own path? → Siddhartha:    • How To Find Your Own Path — Siddhartha by ...