BONUS | The Daily Routine That Built Marcus Aurelius
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. 2,000 years ago, Marcus Aurelius is the most powerful man on earth. He controls an empire of tens of millions of square miles, controls the lives of tens of millions of people. He controls the most powerful army on earth.
He has the power of life and death over other people. He could have done whatever he wanted. He could have retreated to pleasure and indolence. He could have easily descended into insanity from stress and overwork. Yet he manages, as as one biographer would say, to prove himself worthy
of all the responsibility and power placed upon him. He he manages, I think, just as impressively to manage it. He isn't corrupted by it, he doesn't break under the stress by it, he acquits himself well. So what's his secret? What does the life of this guy look like?
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