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Meditation

Technique

19 creators

Managing stress during a difficult personal year (divorce and daughter's medical emergency)

"I did meditate during this challenging year. I was in the middle of a divorce and it really helped, and I probably should find 20 minutes a day to meditate."

Bill Ackman

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Drowning out external noise and cultivating healthy, clear thinking

"I've been enjoying meditating lately in the past year and I've been getting better and better at it. Meditating is something that takes time. Meditating helps drown the noise. And then the thoughts that I do get while I meditate tend to be very healthy thou..."

Adam Neumann

Managing mood, reducing anxiety, depression, and melancholy

"If I'm feeling out of sorts: how did I sleep last night? How's my diet? How's my exercise? How's my socialization? And how's my meditation? I've had a good experience with meditation. If you're listening to me and you feel down and out and feel melancholy, ..."

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Meditations

Media

6 creators

Rereading at different points in life to deepen his understanding of Stoicism

"Marcus Aurelius talks about the idea of the common good something like 80 times in Meditations, right? 80 times is a lot... It's not until the middle of the pandemic that I'm reading Marcus Aurelius and all these allusions, and in some cases direct referenc..."

Ryan Holiday

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Introduction to Stoic philosophy; ongoing reference for life lessons

"About 20 years ago, I read this book, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world. I had no idea who Marcus was. I had no idea about Stoic philosophy. And this sent me down a rabbit hole."

Ryan Holiday

Regular reading for practical wisdom and philosophical grounding; kept in multiple rooms for frequent random reading

"I am a Meditations fan. I know stoicism is falling out of favor a little bit right now but it's been a lifelong thing for me, and I have a copy of Meditations in most rooms I spend time in. So I just do some random reading and it's like magical how it's som..."

Tobi Lütke

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