Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.

Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic's illustrated with stories

from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic

intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave

you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

What Stoic rules make life less erratic?

Marcus really is actually never claimed to be a Stoic.

Gregory Hayes, one of Marcus's realises best translators, writes that if he had to be identified

with a particular school, Stoicism is surely the one he would have chosen.

Yet I suspect that if asked what it was that he studied, his answer would not have been

Stoicism, but simply philosophy.

He then notes that in the ancient world, philosophy was not perceived the way it is today, played

a much different role.

It was not merely a subject to write about or argue about Hayes says, but one that was

expected to provide a design for living, a set of rules to live by.

That's what this philosophy is.

It's a design for living, which is great because Asenica said, life without design is erratic.

So what were some of Marcus's rules?

What did philosophy design for him?

Well, here's a couple that appear in meditations.

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