Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn't meant to be published as a book. It was written in an

antiquated foreign language full of ancient philosophy that until recently few had ever even heard of.

And the man doing the writing lived a life unimaginably different and distant from yours. Why would you bother reading a book like that?

How could it possibly affect and improve your life? Yet this is a book that Frederick the Great

reportedly rode into battle with in his saddlebags, as did four-star General James Mattis,

who carried it with him on deployments throughout

the Middle East. It's a book that American presidents have read and raved about it is a book that

Robert Louis Stevenson, the great novelist, described as unlike any other. It's a book that

actresses and musicians and entrepreneurs are still reading to this day. So why has meditations by Marcus

Aurelius endured and influenced across so many centuries? And what makes its ancient wisdom

still relevant to the modern problems we face today? It's because in meditations, Marcus attempts to answer the

questions we all end up asking ourselves at some point. What's the good life? How do I live it?

How do I stop running from pain and misfortune and start dealing with my problems? How do I

learn how to treat other people when they can be so petty

and miserable and annoying? How do I treat myself better too? And Marcus Rulius answers these

questions with clarity and wisdom in meditations. In fact, he gives us a kind of guidebook for

living, a set of rules to live our life by practical exercises that made him

a better person and can make you one too. That is why people have read meditations for the last

2,000 years. That's why it's the favorite of presidents and prisoners, men, and women, soldiers,

and activists, entrepreneurs, and everyday

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