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If you want to be great, you can't find a single page in Marcus Aurelius' Meditations where you get the sense that Marcus was attuned to his extraordinaryness.

There's nothing about a legendary moment of courage on the battlefield, nothing about a remarkable imparting of wisdom to a young politician at the perfect time, nothing about a spectacular display of patience in the courtroom.

He doesn't talk about his power, he doesn't talk about how brilliant he was, and he was brilliant. He doesn't talk about his legacy, and if we could talk to him today, he'd push back on being considered remarkable.

Me, great, I'm just doing my job, that's what he would say. To Marcus, his temperance, his courage, his justice, his wisdom, none of these were remarkable. They were his duty, his obligations as a person.

He was too busy doing them to think about them, let alone want to be recognized or celebrated for them. Concentrate on what you have to do, he told himself, fix your eyes on it.

Remind yourself that your task is to be a good human being. Remind yourself what nature demands of people, then do it without hesitation. That's what he wrote.

So remind yourself of this too if you want to be great, do your job, focus on your task, ignore everything else, push ego away. Fight, as Marcus Aurelia says, to be the person philosophy wants you to be, fix your eyes, be a good person, do your duty, be great.

When Marcus talks about fighting to be the person philosophy wants him to be, where did he learn that? He learned it as a boy.

And that's what I write about in the boy who would be king. And today is the day it's out, it's available, you can order it here in the Daily Stoke Store, we have signed copies, we'll even give you an audiobook for free.

And it's now on Amazon as a Kindle and as a hardcover, I'm so proud of this book, I remain endlessly fascinated with Marcus Aurelia's early life, because clearly it was so formative, it shaped him into being the great man he was able to be.

That's what I want to help do with my kids, that's what I feel lucky enough to have had other people do in my life, although I'm not saying I'm nearly as great, I'm just saying, the early influences of my life shaped me, and I'm still trying to live up, trying to fight to be who they wanted me to be.

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If you want to be great, follow the example of Marcus Aurelia's, try to be like him, try to be the person stoicism wants you to be, and wishing you a great day.

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