This Can Change the Course of Your Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 9 April 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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The right book at the right time is a powerful thing. In fact, it can change the whole course of your life.
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| 0:47.1 | the right book at the right time is a powerful thing in In fact, it can change the whole course of your life. |
| 0:57.5 | Sometime in the first century AD, a young Marcus Aurelius was given a copy of Epictetus's lectures from his teacher's own library. |
| 1:05.4 | Walking the halls one day as a grad student at Stanford, a professor invited James Stockdale into his office. |
| 1:12.2 | Reaching behind him, he too grabbed a worn copy of Epictetus off the shelf and handed it to |
| 1:18.3 | this promising young man. Not only did these books change the lives of the people they were given to, |
| 1:24.1 | Marcus Aurelius relying on it when he became emperor and Stockdale as a prisoner of war, |
| 1:29.0 | but it may have indirectly changed your life too. How many people heard about the Stoics |
| 1:34.7 | from these two evangelists? How many people has their example inspired? And there's actually |
| 1:40.6 | another impressionable kid whose life was changed by such a recommendation. |
| 1:45.1 | Who? Who you might ask? Me. When I first picked up meditations 18 years ago, I had no idea how |
| 1:51.6 | much that book would impact my life. I had no idea the immense and positive impact this ancient |
| 1:56.6 | philosophy that I'd never heard about would have on my relationship with family and friends, |
| 2:01.5 | but also the relationship I had with myself. |
| 2:04.4 | I certainly had no idea that I'd one day write books about stoicism or that these books |
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