Weekly Perspective

  PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: Focus on your own journey. Leave everyone else to their own. Unless, of course you have a helpful suggestion or recommendation–just as others have given you. In which case, be a good fan and provide it! —  Have You Considered This?  ( Listen ) YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: In one of the most-watched videos on  the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel  this week,  Ryan Holiday talks about the best Stoic strategies for dealing with loneliness . Loneliness is a timeless experience. Stoicism is founded in a moment of loneliness—Zeno loses everything in a shipwreck. Seneca’s best writings come from exile—when he is sent far away from the people he loves. Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the world—by the very nature of his power and responsibility and fame, he was isolated he was lonely. The Stoics were very familiar with loneliness and have a lot of great strategies for dealing with it. Despite the fact that, as Ryan says, “You might think that the Stoics were thes

        A work by Egyptian artist Mahmoud Hawary in Cairo. AP   TURKEY/SYRIA EARTHQUAKE A couple were  pulled alive  from under a collapsed apartment building more than 12 days after the earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria. It has claimed the lives of more than 44,000 people. More than 10,600 Syrians have  "voluntarily"  returned there from Turkey after the quake, Turkish Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken  pledged $100 million  in additional aid after arriving in Turkey yesterday for a tour of the damage. The UAE's  second field hospital  in Turkey opened on Saturday and has started receiving patients. Dr Abdullah Al Rabeeah, supervisor general of KSrelief, has said that there would be  more aid  for earthquake survivors in Syria and Turkey. Experts tell  The National  that the high death toll could have been avoided if Turkey had  learnt its lesson  from the 1999 earthquake. IRAN Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said y