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Marcus Aurelius woke before dawn on the Danube frontier, in 170 AD, and wrote a private journal called "For Himself" that became the Meditations-not for glory, but to harden his mind against the exact people and crises he knew he'd meet. Why would the most powerful man alive spend his mornings rehearsing insults, betrayals, and plague before a single event had happened, and how did that make him unshakeable?
In this episode, we follow Marcus’s morning entry and the practice he inherited from Epictetus, Seneca, Heraclitus, and…
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