# 26 Embrace Your Rich Life *Week 5, Day 2 of [[00 The Wealthy Stoic Course]]* #source/course << [[25 The Rich Life|Back]] | [[27 Don't Inherit A Life|Next]] >>  ## Content > “It never ceases to amaze me: [[We all love ourselves more than other people]], but care more about their opinion than our own.” — [[Marcus Aurelius]] Another key component of Ramit’s work, [as he told us](https://dailystoic.com/ramit-sethi-interview/),  > _“I challenge my readers to define their Rich Life and to pursue it unapologetically.”_ To pursue _your_ Rich Life unapologetically, you need a kind of Stoic fearlessness. The Stoics were not afraid to be themselves, to be seen as weird. In fact, that’s something Epictetus said: If you want to improve, if you want to achieve wisdom, if you want to live _your_ Rich Life—you have to be OK looking strange to some people. In the HBO series “Rome,” Cato The Younger, who Seneca believed to be the perfect Stoic, appears throughout the series only wearing black robes while the rest of the Senate members wear white. This wasn’t a screenwriter’s exaggeration. Plutarch wrote about Cato, “Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace.” To live _your_ Rich Life, to do the things that _you_ really want to do, to fulfill _your_ destiny, you must free yourself from considering what other people might think.  [[Epictetus]] tells us [the story of Agrippinus](https://dailystoic.com/is-it-even-a-question/), who refused to keep a low profile during Nero’s reign, who refused to conform or tamp down his independent thinking.  Why do this, Agrippinus was asked, why not be like the rest of us?  > _Because you regard yourself as but a single thread of all that go to make up the garment. What follows, then? This, that you ought to take thought how you may resemble all other men, precisely as even the single thread wants to have no point of superiority in comparison with the other threads. But I want to be the red, that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to appear comely and beautiful. Why, then, do you say to me, “Be like the majority of people?” And if I do that, how shall I any longer be the red?_ Beautifully said. Embrace _your_ Rich Life. Embrace who _you_ really are. Embrace what _you_ love. --- ## Activity **Embracing your Rich Life** Yesterday you were able to pinpoint what your Rich Life is. What is holding you back from achieving it? Is it because it looks different from everyone else? Are you worried about what other people will say?