Ryan Holiday

But there's something about picking it up at random and reading it and rereading it.

And it just happens to be that you take something new out of it each time or something new strikes you each time.

The randomness of it is a sort of part of my practice.

As you know, this has been Meditations Month here at Daily Stoic.

We've been reviewing meditations in a variety of different forms, done episodes about it, we've done deep dives about it, and then we're doing our Q&A about it on the day after Mark Sebelius' birthday, on the 27th.

I'd love to see you in there.

Just to give you a little teaser of what that's like, here's some of the questions from last year's Meditations Q&A.

If you want to join us, if you want to keep doing this deep dive experience,

into Marcus Aurelius with us, take our meditations course, the book club we're doing.

Well, we'd love to have you join us.

You can sign up right now, dailystoic.com slash meditations.

I will link to that in today's show notes.

But in the meantime, here's me answering some questions from meditations.

Yeah, the Stokes did seem to think of history and indeed the sort of whole arc of the world as this sort of cyclical thing.

I think we get a sense from Marcus that he believed that sort of human beings have always been human beings and have always sort of had the same vices, always done the same things, been drawn to the same types of characters, made the same mistakes.

And he found himself saying,

that he didn't live in some sort of unprecedented future, that nothing was new under the sun, that this is just how it always went.

And we shouldn't be surprised or disappointed or alarmed by any of this.

And I think that's a good lens into where we are now.

Yeah.