How Marcus Aurelius Quieted an Anxious Mind Before Sleep
Why Your Success Makes You Miserable - The Stoic Cure for Quiet Panic
If sleeplessness feels like a moral failing, Marcus Aurelius disagrees: the Roman emperor kept a private insomnia journal filled with nightly reminders to confine himself to the present and sort what is his to carry from what is not. This episode shows how a man who commanded legions used simple Stoic rules to stop rumination-so what exactly did he write to calm his mind before sleep?
In this episode, we follow the Stoic practices Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, and Cleantes used to shift attention from imagined control…
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