Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

You are on the right timeline. It might not seem that way. In fact, it might seem like everything is falling apart.

You didn't get the promotion you wanted. The election turned out differently than you hoped.

You just got some disappointing news. You just got hurt. You just got screwed over.

Meanwhile, that person you can't stand is getting ahead, getting lucky break after lucky break.

This isn't the timeline I'm supposed to be on,

you think. This isn't how it was supposed to go. But what if it is? That every event is the right

one, Mark Scrillius writes in meditations. Look closely and you'll see, not just the right

one overall, but right, as if someone had waded out

with scales. This wasn't just mental jiu-jitsu for him, though. He believed we had to make this

the right timeline and how we acted. We had to look for the good, he said, but most importantly,

we had to embody it with our actions, with

goodness, what defines a good person. We had to keep to it in everything we do. It might not feel

right, might not seem fair, but it is still ours to shape. It is our job to make it right.

And in a way, that's what Meditations is as a book. It's Marcus Aurelius

trying to remind himself that for all that's going wrong in his life, all that's going sideways,

all that he's dealing with, he is on the right timeline. And in fact, as he says in Meditations,

this isn't unfortunate that it happened to me. It's fortunate that it happened to me. And how can he turn it into account? How can he use it for fuel? And Meditations

is both the reminder of that and the means by which he is doing it. And we're doing a deep dive

into Meditations this month. We're calling it Meditations Month here at Daily Stoic.

And if you want to do a deep dive into the book with me, we're doing a live session here

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