Ryan Holiday

No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you are in right now, he writes in meditations.

He was saying that we don't just talk about philosophy, we have to apply it to our daily lives, whatever profession and place we happen to occupy.

And that's why if you're interested in Stoic philosophy or philosophy in general, Meditations by Mark Schwelis is the first thing to read, according to Arthur Brooks when he came on the Daily Stoic podcast.

It's the most empowering thing I've ever read, he said, especially since I read it when I was young.

He said it's always been incredibly important to me.

And the reason that he and thousands of other people say this is because in meditations, Marcus is showing us that it doesn't matter how rich or powerful or famous we are, that life will still include pain and suffering.

Life will still throw obstacles that seem difficult at us.

What matters is how we respond to those things.

We shouldn't assume that something is impossible because we find it hard, Marcus writes in Meditations, but recognize that if it's humanly possible, you can do it too.

And it's ideas like this that explain why Meditations has been this sort of secret of leaders and ordinary people for almost 2,000 years.

That people, whether they're military leaders or students or entrepreneurs or artists or stay-at-home parents or championship athletes, they've turned to meditations for guidance.

And it's why for over a decade here at Daily Stoic, for almost 20 years in my life, I've been trying to make this work accessible to people.

And it's why we're doing Meditations Month here at Daily Stoic in honor of Marcus's birthday.

We're doing this deep dive into meditations, what it means.

We put together this really cool sort of guide book club that we're all doing together.

We're doing a Q&A about it.

It's free for anyone who grabs the guide.

Plus, we've got the leather-bound edition of Meditations.

Meditations Month has been awesome.

I'll link to that in today's show notes, or you can just go to dailystoic.com slash meditations to get the bundles of all that stuff I was just talking about.