It’s Not That Complicated

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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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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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