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🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Perhaps you feel a bit like Marcus Aurelius did when he wrote in Meditations, “I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me.”

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1:48.2	You make this for yourself. Oh, it's been a bad run for you, has it? Things keep breaking. People
2:06.4	keep screwing up. The market isn't cooperating. It's been one disaster after another. It's been one
2:12.6	frustration after another. Perhaps you feel a bit like Marcus did when he wrote in meditations that,
2:19.0	I was once a fortunate man, but at some point fortune abandoned me. He had every reason to think that,
2:26.2	didn't he? As we've said before, his reign was an unending series of troubles, plagues, floods,
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