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Are you keeping one?

It's obviously a very famous book.

It sold millions of copies over the last 2,000 years.

It has changed the lives of millions of people.

And it has influenced leaders and heads of state and activists and executives. But did you know that Meditations

wasn't the only book that Marcus Aurelius wrote? In fact, he talks about it in Meditations,

is his book 3.14, where he refers to a text he's working on called Acts of Ancient Greeks and

Romans. This would have been Marcus's version of what we would

today call a commonplace book, a place where he recorded anecdotes and quotes about people he admired,

contemplating and critiquing their character and insights. While we got very lucky that meditations

survive, it's a fluke of history, it's unlikely that lightning

would strike twice, and this commonplace book was lost.

But keeping one of these books was by no means a unique practice, as is detailed in a book

I've been raving about called The Notebook.

We talked about it with the author on an episode

of the Daily Stoic podcast. I'll link to that. Basically, these compilations were an essential part

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