Only One Thing Is Truly Yours — Epictetus

Epictetus began his life as a slave and ended it as one of the most influential teachers in history. His handbook, the Enchiridion, opens with a single idea: some things are within our power and some are not. In this video we go through what he actually said, in his own words, and turn it into four practices for the week: the two lists, the price of peace, the view check and the morning preview. Every quotation in this video is checked against the original text. Chapters 0:00 Two Lists 1:16 A Slave Who Taught an Emperor 3:03 The First Sentence 4:42 Why It Matters So Much 6:01 Not Things, But Views 7:50 Wanting What Happens 9:16 The Price of Peace 10:45 The Fight You Cannot Lose 12:11 Your Part in the Play 13:17 Losing Things 14:23 How to Practise It 15:58 The One Thing Sources • Epictetus, The Enchiridion, translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, public domain — Project Gutenberg eBook #45109. Quoted passages from chapters I, V, VIII, IX, XI, XII, XVII, XIX and XX. Subscribe for old wisdom for modern minds: the Stoics, Carl Jung and the thinkers who understood people long before psychology had a name. Narration and images are created with the help of AI. The script is researched and fact-checked against the sources above. #Epictetus #Stoicism #Philosophy