Ryan Holiday

Look closely and you'll see, not just the right one overall, but right, as if someone had waited out with scales.

This wasn't just mental jujitsu for him, though.

He believed we had to make this the right timeline and how we acted.

We had to look for the good, he said, but most importantly, we had to embody it with our actions, with goodness, what defines a good person.

We had to keep to it in everything we do.

It might not feel right, might not seem fair, but it is still ours to shape.

It is our job to make it right.

And in a way, that's what Meditations is as a book.

It's Marcus Aurelius trying to remind himself that for all that's going wrong in his life, all that's going sideways, all that he's dealing with, he is on the right timeline.

And in fact, as he says in Meditations, this isn't unfortunate that it happened to me.

It's fortunate that it happened to me.

And how can he turn it into account?

How can he use it for fuel?

And meditations is both the reminder of that and the means by which he is doing it.

And we're doing a deep dive into meditations this month.

We're calling it Meditations Month here at...

Daily Stoic.

And if you want to do a deep dive into the book with me, we're doing a live session here towards the end of the month.

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Got our leather edition of meditations.