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“It should be the easiest book in the world to read.”

It's only depending on the translation a couple hundred pages, which are made up of short passages, making it easy to read in small increments. It's written in a straightforward and accessible style without any complex philosophical jargon. Unlike most books, there's no pretense, no performance, no intent to impress and audience.

It's filled with topics that are universal and relevant, dealing with tough times, being nice to people waking up and getting to work even when you'd rather stay under the warm blankets. And yet, so many people struggle with and get frustrated by Marx's realises meditations.

And they have ever since it was first discovered after the Emperor's death nearly 2000

years ago. Just as we can imagine the first reader of meditations trying to make sense of the private thoughts of this great man, today people have questions about where to start and what to take from it. What translation should I get?

Should I read it covered a cover or is it better to approach it in bite-sized pieces? Do you read it once or multiple times? Where did Marcus write it? Why did he write it? When Marcus means to come off so darker, is it important to know about Marcus's circumstances?

Who he was writing for? What he meant?

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We've been working hard here at Daily Stone for the last decade to try to make Marcus

really successful and practical for people. We even publish our own edition of meditations. But we've also spent hundreds and thousands of hours not just with his writings, but also with the best experts and translators and students of stoicism to help make sense of what he meant and what he can do for us.

Getting to the bottom of meditations is the work of a lifetime, and as Marcus would say of any great work of art, you get something new each time you go to it. Well, that's why we've been putting together what I think is the perfect companion for reading and understanding Marcus really says meditations. It's this new Daily Stone meditations guide, like a book club or an annotated version

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366 days of writing and reflection on the art of living by yours truly.

“We call people who dwell on what might go wrong pessimists.”

Some even think that bad thoughts attract bad events. The Stokes found this all to be nonsense. In fact, they had a practice, pre-meditashio Maloram, pre-meditation of evils that specifically encouraged musing on the so-called worst-case scenario. Marcus would begin his day thinking about all the ugliness you would see on display in

court, not for the purpose of working himself up, but precisely the opposite to call him and focus himself to be prepared to act in the proper way rather than just to react. Seneca 2 practice meditating in advance, not only on what normally happens, but on what could happen. Epictetus went as far as to imagine losing a loved one every time he would kiss them.

The Stokes believed that all we have is alone from fortune, and that negative visualization helps increase our awareness of the unexpected. So don't shy away from this in your thoughts. Then we have two quotes today from Marcus Reelius and from Seneca. When you arise in the morning, tell yourself I will encounter busy bodies in great

ego maniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because they don't know the difference between good and evil, because I have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil. I know that the wrong doers are still akin to me, and that none can do me harm or implicate me in ugliness. Nor can I be angry at my relatives and hate them for we are made for cooperation.

Before I get to the Seneca quote, I would say that the many first times I read this

quote, especially when I read it. Young, I focused on that first part. Reelius just how awful

“and frustrating everyone will be, and I think that's sort of the rudimentary understanding”

is like, look, you know, don't go into the world all rosy eyed in bushy tail, or you're going to get your heart stomped on, right? You've got to be aware, you've got to be prepared, Marcus Reelius, don't go expecting play does Republic. But it's really the second part of that that's hit me more, right? Why is he doing that exercise? It's so when he's hit by it, when he's hit by a cheat or a liar or a person who is, you know, messing around on their

spouse or, you know, when when he sees somebody do something wrong, he's not surprised by and it doesn't make him bitter and it doesn't make him right off all of humanity as a whole. You know, he says, because I know better, I know that the wrong doers are still akin to me, and he says, and none can do me hard or implicate me in ugliness, nor can I be angry and my relatives or hate them. That's something I've been working on, so I was just dealing with this

someone who, I really care about and they're just, you know, being, you know, not safe or smarter, who I know them to be. And I wanted to unload on them and I had to go, no, I care about this person. I should have prepared for this. I shouldn't have built them up in my head. They're human being. They have flaws. They do the wrong thing sometimes. I'm not going to cast them out of my heart or out of my life for what they've done. And then this goes into the second synagogue quote,

being unexpected adds to the weight of a disaster and being a surprise has never failed to increase

a person's pain. For that reason, nothing should ever be unexpected by us. Our mind should be sent out in advance all the things. And we shouldn't just consider the normal course of things, but what could actually happen? For is there anything in life that Fortune won't knock off the timehorse if it pleases her? I have the pre-Mintoshio Malorum coin here on my desk. I just look at it, look, look, Murphy's Law is real, man. Things can go sideways fast. You know, Seneca says the only

unforgivable thing for a general to say is I did not think it would happen. So, of course, positive visualization is thing to do all the good things that can happen. You can succeed. You can break through. You can make it. If it's humanly possible, no, you can do it, Marcus says. The same time, the law of attraction is not real. If you think about negative things, you don't attract negative things. You actually make yourself more prepared to wrestle with and deal with and

conquer those difficult things. And that is why we do our pre-meditoshio Malorum. That is why we

“sink of all the things that can happen. That's why we meditate on the people we're likely to meet”

so that they can't drag us down. They can't implicate us in ugliness and they can't make us unhappy. Hey, it's Ryan. Thank you for listening to The Daily Steel podcast. I just wanted to say we so

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