A Measure Of Greatness | Accepting What Is
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 13 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Not everyone thinks Marcus Aurelius was so great. And it’s true, his record is not unblemished: He fought in imperial wars. He didn’t stop the persecution of the Christians. His son was disturbed and unfit to succeed him.
So can we really call him a “philosopher king?” How great a Stoic was he actually?
--
And with today's meditation on the day's Daily Journal excerpt, Ryan talks about us accepting things that are out of our control, that pushing back and questioning the stoics only get us closer to their teachings. Stoicism 101 is a 14-day course dedicated to teaching you the tools to live your best life. To distill down the absolute best lessons of Stoicism and teach you what the philosophy is really about. Again, this will be a live course. Beginning on MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6TH all participants will move through the course together at the same pace.
Registration will close on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7TH.
✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail
🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.
📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, waiting. Indeed, UK data shows 85% of employers using indeed find quality candidates who |
| 0:06.3 | CVs on indeed match their job description. The moment they post the job, you get a short |
| 0:11.2 | list of quality candidates. Boom. It's hiring at warp speed. Start hiring now with a 100-pound |
| 0:17.3 | sponsored job credit for your job post at indeed.com slash TDS. Offer good for a limited time. |
| 0:24.0 | Claim your 100-pound credit now at indeed.com slash TDS. Just go to indeed.com slash TDS to support |
| 0:31.5 | the show by saying you heard about it on this podcast indeed.com slash TDS. Terms and conditions |
| 0:38.0 | apply need to hire. You need indeed. What do I do? What do I do? What do I say? What do I say? |
| 0:46.0 | In the Macmillan online community, we know what it's like to have cancer because we have it too. |
| 0:52.8 | So, whatever you're thinking, whatever you're feeling, whatever you need to ask about cancer, |
| 1:00.0 | whatever the time of day or night will do whatever it takes to help you. To join us, search Macmillan |
| 1:09.2 | online community. Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast. Each day we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 1:19.6 | by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories from history, current events, and literature to |
| 1:24.7 | help you be better at what you do. At the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, |
| 1:29.5 | setting a kind of Stoic intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, |
| 1:35.1 | something to leave you with, to journal about, whatever it is you happen to be doing. Let's get |
| 1:40.8 | into it. A measure of greatness. Not everyone thinks Marcus Relius was so great. |
| 1:54.9 | And it's true, his record is not unblemished. He fought in imperial wars. He didn't stop the |
| 1:59.6 | persecution of the Christians. His son was disturbed and unfit to succeed him. |
| 2:05.1 | So can we really call him a philosopher king? How great a Stoic was he actually? These are all |
| 2:11.7 | good questions to ask in theory, but in practice, they're quite unfair, especially when it comes to |
| 2:16.0 | looking at leaders. As a more recent president with his own blind spots for his flawed son has put it, |
| 2:21.6 | don't compare me to the Almighty, compare me to the alternative. The measure of Marcus Relius' |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.