It’s Not That Complicated
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Power is corruptive and corrosive no matter your age. To the young and inexperienced, it is even worse.
📕 Book Mentioned: Wisdom Takes Work by Ryan Holiday
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| 1:06.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 1:13.5 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 1:18.8 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 1:31.7 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visitdailystoic.com. It's not that complicated. |
| 1:52.9 | It's long been one of the mysteries, the tragedies of history. |
| 1:57.0 | How did Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher king, give way to comidus? |
| 2:01.5 | How did such a thoughtful, even saintly man raise such a terrible son? |
| 2:05.8 | Why did one rule well and the other rule so badly? |
| 2:09.8 | In Wisdom Takes Work, I explore one of these answers. |
| 2:13.0 | Marcus Aurelius had arranged many guardians, writes the historian Cassius Dio, among who were numbered the |
| 2:20.0 | best men in the Senate. But their suggestions and counsels, he says, Comedus rejected. He dismissed them, |
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