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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

Thank you for listening.

The most beautiful model of a perfect life. Happy Father's Day to all those who celebrate, by the way.

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Marcus really says father died when he was young, but then this young boy who was cursed by tragedy received a great gift, a gift that all children who have received it know to be one of the most incredible things in the world.

A loving stepfather. Ernest Rennan wrote that more than his teachers and tutors, Marcus had a single master whom he revered above them all and that was Antoninus.

All his adult life Marcus strive to be the disciple of his adopted stepfather while he lived Marcus saw him Rennan said as the most beautiful model of the perfect life.

So what were the things that Marcus learned from Antoninus? Well, you learn the importance of compassion and hard work, persistence, altruism, self-reliance and cheerfulness.

You learned about keeping an open mind and listening to anyone who could contribute about taking responsibility and blame and also putting others at ease about yielding the Florida experts and using their advice knowing when to push something or someone and when to back off being indifferent to superficial honors and treating people as they deserved to be treated.

It's quite a list, isn't it? And these lessons, the impact in Marcus so deeply he remembered them far into adulthood and recorded them for his own reference and what would become meditations.

But most of all what made these lessons so powerful was that they were embodied in Antoninus's actions rather than written on some tablet or scroll or in some philosophical treaties.

There is no better way to learn than from a role model. There's no better way to judge our progress than in constant company with the person we would most like to be like someday.

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But happy father's day everyone and may we all strive to be as good a parent as Antoninus.

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In this series of bride and aunt I talk to among others Harry Hill Ben Elton Charlotte Church Steve Cougan and Dame Harriet Walter. And that's just a few.

We tend to chat for about 45 minutes to an hour never longer. It's terrific conversation. Reminiscence where appropriate and exchange of anecdotes.

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