How Can This Improve Your Life? | The Color of Your Thoughts

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn't meant to be published as a book. It was written in an antiquated foreign language full of ancient philosophy that until recently few had ever even heard of, and the man doing the writing lived a life unimaginably different and distant from yours.

Why would you bother reading a book like that? How could it possibly affect and improve your life? Yet this is a book that Frederick the Great reportedly rode into battle with in his saddlebags, as did four star General James Mattis, who carried it with him on deployments throughout the Middle East. It's a book that American presidents have read and raved about.

It is a book that Robert Louis Stevenson, the great novelist, described as unlike any other. It's a book that actresses and musicians and entrepreneurs are still reading. to this day. So why has meditations by Marcus Aurelius endured and influenced across so many centuries? And what makes its ancient wisdom still relevant to the modern problems we face today?

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