Ryan Holiday
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In Marcus Aurelius' meditations, he says, you have to concentrate on this task before you like a Roman.
He says, do it like it's the last thing you're doing in your life.
I would say do it like it's the only thing in your life.
Put the phone away, close all the tabs in your browser.
Don't multitask, lock in and focus for a large uninterrupted block.
This is what Marcus Aurelius is doing in meditations.
This is what the Stoics were doing in their philosophical classes, right?
Stop drifting about, stop wandering, and focus.
Finally, you have to think about death.
Memento mori.
You are mortal.
You don't have forever.
It's not that life is short, Seneca says.
It's that we waste a lot of it.
And we waste a lot of it because we think we have more of it than we actually do.
The clock is ticking away.
Your time here is evaporating at this very second.
Don't fool yourself into thinking you have forever.
Don't be good tomorrow, Marx really says.
Be good today.