Are you relevant enough? To Whom and Why?

Are you relevant enough, and relevant to whom exactly? In this episode of the Via Stoica Podcast we look at why this question comes up so often during moments of change, and what Stoic philosophy actually says about the value we attach to being needed.

Welcome to the Via Stoica Podcast, the podcast on Stoicism. Relevance always exists in relation to someone or something else, at a particular moment, which means it was never a fixed thing to hold onto in the first place.

Twelve people have ever walked on the moon, and their footprints will likely outlast almost everything else humans have built, yet ask someone to name the seventh person to do it. That gap between permanence and memory says a great deal about what we are really chasing when we chase relevance. The fear of becoming irrelevant is rarely about relevance itself. It is grief for something that mattered, a role that shifted, a relationship that changed shape, a chapter that ended without warning. This episode also looks at Hierocles and the Stoic idea of concentric circles, and why the people closest to you may deserve more of your attention than the audience you imagine is watching.

The question worth sitting with by the end is simple. What does relevance actually mean to you, and who do you really want to be relevant for.

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