100 Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
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🗓️ 4 January 2023
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Meditations is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and obligations of his positions. Trained in Stoic philosophy, Marcus Aurelius stopped almost every night to practice a series of spiritual exercises—reminders designed to make him humble, patient, empathetic, generous, and strong in the face of whatever he was dealing with.
Today, Ryan breaks down 100 applicable life lessons from his years of reading and studying Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:09.9 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:15.9 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:19.0 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy well-known |
| 0:24.9 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. With them, we discuss the strategies and habits |
| 0:30.3 | that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their |
| 0:36.2 | actual lives. But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
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| 0:55.1 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. It was the |
| 1:06.9 | fall of 2006 and a package came to my apartment in Riverside, California, so actually living |
| 1:16.3 | a grand mark on Iowa Avenue. And in fact, I actually had posted about this recently |
| 1:20.4 | in the morning, and so I'm in someone posted that they were probably working the front desk |
| 1:26.0 | when that book came in, because they also went to UCR, which is a credible full circle |
| 1:30.9 | moment. That was all the more full circle because I was downstairs at the Panty Port Chester |
| 1:35.8 | Day signing a copy of the leather edition of Meditations to give to Professor Gregory |
| 1:42.1 | Hayes, the translator of that book that had arrived from Amazon. I don't know why I picked |
| 1:47.7 | that one. I typed in a Markis Relius Meditations on Amazon. That's the one that popped up. It |
| 1:55.4 | was Marcus on a horse pardoning the Germanic tribes, the famous Equestrian Statue photo. |
| 2:01.4 | Now that edition in paperback has a bird on it. That's the one we sell at the Panty |
| 2:06.4 | Port Ch. And then the leather edition that we do in the Daily Stoic is Marcus' face. |
| 2:13.6 | That moment changed my life. And that's what I wrote to Professor Hayes. I said, Professor |
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