Go Back And Pick It Up Again | Is This the Life You Worked For?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. Go back. And pick it up again.

Everyone has a book that changed their life. One that opened their eyes or taught them something, moved them, challenged them. We know that this was Mark Skrelis' reaction to aptitus. Perhaps this was how you felt when you read Marcus Aurelius for the first time. I I know it was for me. But how long has it been since you read that book that first hit you?

Now Think of everything that's happened then. All the other books you've read, the experiences you've had, things that have happened in the world, the lessons you've learned. How much have you grown? How much has your perspective shifted? In his great biography of Emerson, The Mind on Fire, Robert D. Richardson writes about a year of rereading that had a revitalizing effect on Emerson, enlivening his reading and sending him ranging over further afield. New readings overlapped old, he writes, familiar books yielded fresh connections with the present, and books from one culture or era became newly applicable in another.

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