Marcus Aurelius: How to Lead Through Collapse
Content warning: this episode contains mentions of death and mature themes.
In the winter of 169 AD, the most powerful man on earth was sitting in a freezing tent on the frontier, covered in mud, surrounded by dead soldiers. A plague was killing 2,000 people a day in Rome. The economy had collapsed. He had just buried his co-emperor. His children were dying.
Marcus Aurelius did not write the Meditations in a library. He wrote it by a campfire in what is now Austria, and he wasn't writing for us. He was writing notes to himself, trying to hold it together.
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