Which Of These Are You? | What's In Your Way Is The Way

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Which of these are you? He had every reason to feel threatened. He had every reason to think of his own interests first. He had every reason not to care so much about this kid that he'd been stuck with.

But we know that Antoninus didn't see Marcus Aurelius that way. Instead he took the role that Hadrian had given him, which was to prepare the next generation of leadership, and he took it seriously. He mentored Marcus, he taught Marcus, he loved Marcus as if he was his son. Again, he could have intrigued against him, he could have undermined him, he could have tried to replace him with someone he was related to. Instead Antoninus was generous and patient and selfless.

And he helped Marcus succeed. What about you? Are you going to be that kind of leader, or are you going to give in to insecurity and selfishness and closed-mindedness? We all face some version of this choice. Are we going to be an enemy or an encourager?

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