The Marcus Aurelius Quote Tom Junod Can’t Forget

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. There's that expression, uh, a writer's writer, like somebody whose writing is appreciated by people who appreciate the craft.

Like people who do it, they know that, look, anyone can enjoy this, but i if you really know how how stuff works, you appreciate it at a different level. There's certain comedians that are comedians, comedians, uh, writers who are writers, writers, musicians who are musicians, musicians, right? We've we joke about how Epictetus is your favorite philosopher's favorite philosopher. That's kind of the vibe, right?

And Marcus Reelus and meditations are that. I mean, Meditations is a very popular philosophy book, but among people who are writers, you can appreciate it on a very different level. Tom Junote is a writer's writer, one of the great magazine writers of his generation. Millions of people have read his articles.

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