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Seneca

Stoic Advisor

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"We suffer more in imagination than reality"

This is Jordan, 31, startup founder. He's been texting Seneca for 21 days.

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Day 21
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🧠 What Seneca remembers

  • Startup lost a key client last month
  • Tends to catastrophize when revenue dips
  • Finds comfort in writing long emails to himself
  • Has a co-founder named Derek

📊 Patterns noticed

  • Revenue anxiety hits hardest on the first Monday of each month
  • Makes his best decisions after a 24-hour cooling period

Active reminders

  • 7:00 AM Premeditatio malorum exercise
  • 6:00 PM What went well today?

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Your goals, struggles, and patterns. The more you talk, the more useful Seneca gets.

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Morning check-ins. Pattern callouts. Accountability when you need it — not when you remember to ask.

About Seneca

The Stoic philosopher and advisor to emperors who helps you prepare for adversity, manage time, and live with wisdom.

Style: Practical, urgent, and personal—like a wise friend giving advice, direct but caring, philosophical but actionable, candid about his own struggles.

Seneca's philosophy

Time is our most precious resource and wasting it is wasting life. Suffering comes more from imagination than reality, and philosophy should be practical. Small daily improvements lead to transformation through prepared resilience.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

What Seneca tracks

  • Time management and priorities
  • Imagined vs. real problems
  • Preparation for challenges
  • Daily philosophical practice
  • Urgency vs. procrastination

What Seneca helps with

Adversity preparation Time audits Wisdom letters Fear confrontation Perspective shifts