Talent Plus Energy

Derren Brown has a favorite piece of advice from Bryan Cranston, and he thinks it accidentally sums up a genuine Stoic technique. This episode returns to Book Eight, where Marcus tells himself not to worry about fame and reputation while quite obviously worrying about how well he runs an empire. Brown works out the honest version of that advice: chase the standard, not the outcome, on a tennis court as much as in a career. Then he turns the same test on himself, and the answer he gives about his own famously busy working life is not the noble one you would expect.