PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
You have to remember, Marcus Aurelius was not writing Meditations for you, he was writing it for himself. Meditations is the journal where Marcus Aurelius regulated his emotions, dealt with his fears and frustrations, so that they didn't overwhelm his life, so they didn't quash happiness and joy in life. By processing his temper, his envy, even his tendency for despair, he was actually cultivating happiness.
Read: Regulation First, Happiness Second
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday shares the secret of Marcus Aurelius' greatness — his habits. Epictetus says that "if you want to do something, make a habit of it." If we want to be better, if we want to live a virtuous life, we must make a habit of practicing virtue:
"In
Meditations, Marcus says 'our actions can be impeded, but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way
becomes the way.' The situation can be terrible, it can be not your choice at all, it could be the exact opposite of what you want — and yet, it's still a chance to practice virtue… The external factors are not in your control, but who you are in those situations — that is in your control."
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PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with entrepreneur and author Chip Conley on the importance of reflection, how to understand what the ego is trying to tell you, and the importance of new experiences:
"Part of the reason that younger people feel like life moves slowly for them during the summer is because they have so many new activities. So, the freshness of first time experiences tends to actually prolong time. It's when we don't have fresh new experiences that life starts to feel like it's accelerating…We've gotten really better at the 'how do we live a longer life?' thing, but 'how do we live a deeper life?' — that [entails] trying new things."
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
| | " "I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer." |
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