Why “Meditations” Needs a New Name—According to William O. Stephens

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Monday is Marcus Aurelius' birthday. It's almost 2,000 years old.

Pretty incredible. Before I get to that, two quick housekeeping announcements. I'm going on tour. I'm going to be on the West Coast, San Francisco and Portland in June, Midwest, like Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis in August, then in the fall and winter, I'm doing Australia and I'm doing uh Boston, Philadelphia, DC.

You can grab tickets for that at dailystoiclive.com. And then in honor of Marc Srealis's birthday on Monday, we are doing a live Q<unk>A deep dive into meditations as part of what we've been calling Meditations Month. I'd love to have you join us. It's not too late to sign up. into a leatherbound edition of Meditations to join us in the little book club.

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