Leaders Are Made Not Born | Keeping “The News” In Check
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
“Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept--thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history.”
Ryan explains how becoming a great leader is a process, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.9 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.1 | current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.0 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you're happened to be doing |
| 0:37.7 | So let's get into it |
| 0:40.6 | Leaders are made not born |
| 0:43.8 | Marcus Aurelius does not come out of the womb a leader nor was he emperor by blood |
| 0:50.2 | In fact, when first told he was to be king he went |
| 0:53.2 | thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history |
| 0:57.0 | So how does he get there to |
| 0:59.6 | philosopher king |
| 1:01.6 | Book one of meditations shows us in the first 10% of the book debts and lessons as it's called |
| 1:08.1 | He thanks people who groomed him |
| 1:10.9 | Into becoming one of history's greatest leaders |
| 1:14.7 | He knew that without his philosophy teachers and rhetoric teachers and most importantly his mentor Antoninus Pius |
| 1:21.2 | He wouldn't have become who he became |
| 1:25.6 | These first pages of the book are deceptive too because they compress a process |
| 1:32.0 | Which took 23 years it was nearly two and a half decades between the time Hadrian first set in motion his plan for Marcus |
| 1:42.8 | And the day he would become the emperor of Rome |
| 1:46.0 | That's what it takes because leaders aren't born they're made |
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