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"Let me read you this passage. This is a famous passage in Meditations that I love sort of encapsulates that idea."
"when I read Marcus's Meditations which is sort of unique amongst the philosophy texts in that it's not this sort of comprehensive explanation of the philosophy. It's the private thoughts of a leader"
"The short lines in meditations are the best. They're just a couple of words. They say so much and they cut through so much space and time."
"This is not only one of the greatest books ever written, it's maybe the only one of its kind... If you haven't read it, you"
"The short lines in Meditations are the best. Discard your misperception. Stop being jerked around like a puppet."
"One of the things Marcus Aurelius does say in Meditations about the people who would have always been flattering him and telling him he's amazing or people who would have been criticizing him or attacking him"
"His meditations are his philosophical writings to himself."
"The most famous passage in Meditations is Marcus Aurelius struggling to get out of bed at dawn."
"Mark Sha says in meditations, whether you're cold or you're warm, whether you're tired or you're hungry, whether you're loved for it or despised for it, you got to do the right thing."
"One of the interesting passages in Meditations, Marcus talks about, he says, 'Practice using the non-dominant hand.'"
"The most well-known stoic is Marcus Aurelius, who's the emperor of Rome, the philosopher king."
"Actually, Mark addresses this in meditations too. This is fundamentally what the philosophy is for."
"at the beginning of meditations, Mark Aurelius talks about one of his teachers taught him to be free of passion but full of love"
"Meditations is one sort of rule, admonishment, high almost impossible standard that he's setting for himself after another."
"Marcus Aurelius in his famous meditations. They're notes to the self. It's a dialogue with the self."
"In meditations, Marcus is ripping on Plato. He says, 'Against their will, their souls are cut off from truth.'"
"Marcus Aurelius tells us that's not allowed. As he says in the opening of book five of meditations at dawn when you have trouble getting out of bed tell yourself I have to go to work as a human being."
"This is one of the best passages in meditations. The most powerful man in the world telling himself to get out of bed and get after it."
"I do know his sort of personal study of the Stoics has informed that approach."
"I think about this with Daily Stoic. I think about it with Daily Dad. And we actually have a really long list of advertisers we will accept and won't accept."
"I think about this with Daily Stoic. I think about it with Daily Dad. And we actually have a really long list of advertisers we will accept and won't accept."
"The idea for the stoics is that every situation, every ethical dilemma calls for one or some combination of those ideas. Courage, discipline, justice, wisdom."
"I think both The Fall and The Plague are two striking books for this moment."
"I think both The Fall and The Plague are two striking books for this moment."
"Stoicism is something that can guide us and teach us and specifically the four virtues of stoicism. Courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom."
"How does the man Dan Kaine, who is now supervising America's military engagement around the world, rely on stoicism?"
"If you haven't read his memoir To Hell and Back, it's absolutely incredible."
"My favorite translation is the Hayes translation which he did for the modern library."
"I'm of course talking about Marcus Aurelius's meditations, one of the most unique books ever published in the history of literature. It is a journal and that journaling process is essentially inseparable from stoic philosophy."
"Mark Sera says, 'Concentrate on doing the thing in front of you as if it was the last thing you were doing in your life.'"
"This is a famous exercise from Seneca. It's called premeditatio malorum. It's about thinking about what might happen. One of the ways we make change not so scary, not so overwhelming is by thinking about it."
"I had James Ramen here and he wrote this book Plato and the Tyrant. Plato's forays into politics are a cautionary tale against thought leaders and intellectuals sometimes participating in public life."
"Seneca talks about turning the words into works"
"probably what drew me to Marcus Aurelius was the movie Gladiator"
"There's a passage that hit me when I first read it. It's the opening of book five where he's just like talking about not wanting to get out of bed in the morning."
"This is what we mean when we say ego is the enemy."
"A man who's still so famous you can buy coins with his face on them on Etsy."
"Marcus was writing in what we now call the Antonine plague. Like they named it after him, but it's like a global pandemic."
"It's in The 48 Laws of Power. Always say less than necessary."
"He says, 'It doesn't matter how good a life you've led, there will still be people standing around the bed who will welcome the sad event.'"
"In Marcus's meditations, Marcus is lamenting all the shitty things that are happening around him."
"In 1962, a philosophy professor at Stanford grabs a thin Manila volume of the Incurian, the best pieces of Epictitus' lectures, and he gives it to Stockdale, the book that saves his life."
"Here's a great passage from the Gregory Hayes translation of meditations. When jarred unavoidably by circumstances, he writes..."
"In his great annotated edition of meditations, Robin Waterfield translated the same passage like this."
"my favorite novel, The Moviegoer, which is a book inspired by stoic philosophy by Walker Percy"
"One of the things I love from Epictetus, he was talking about how a really good money changer in the ancient world could take a coin and by banging it on the table tell if it was counterfeit or not."
"If you want to challenge yourself this spring to get rid of some of those bad habits that creeped in over the winter to get back on track, well, I'd love to have you join me and thousands of other Stoics all over the world in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge."