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W-A-Y-F-A-I-R.com Wayfair every style every home. Welcome to the daily stoic podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues courage, discipline, justice and wisdom
into the real world. The right book at the right time is a powerful thing. In fact,
it can change the whole course of your life. Sometime in the first century AD, a young Marcus Aurelius was given a copy of Epictetus's lectures from his teacher's own library. Walking the halls one day is a grad student at Stanford, a professor invited James Stockdale into his office reaching behind him. He too grabbed a worn copy of Epictetus off the shelf and handed it to this promising young man. Not only did these books change the lives of the
people they were given to, Marcus Aurelius relying on it when it became Emperor and Stockdale as a prisoner of war, but it may have indirectly changed your life too. How many people heard
“about the stoics from these two evangelists? How many people has their example inspired?”
And there's actually another impressionable kid whose life was changed by such a recommendation. Who? Who you might ask? Me. When I first picked up Meditations 18 years ago, I had no idea how much that book would impact my life. I had no idea the immense and positive
impact this ancient philosophy that I'd never heard about would have on my relationship with family
and friends, but also the relationship I had with myself. I certainly had no idea that I'd one day write books about stoicism or that these books would sell millions of copies and lead to a global resurgence of the philosophy today. You would not be reading or listening to this right now without someone doing for me what Junius Rustic is did for Marcus Aurelius and Professor Ryan Landert did for Stockdale. I seem to remember my copy the modern library
edition with a beautiful translation from Gregory Hayes arriving right after I ordered it, but recently searching my email for that order number tells me otherwise. Instead, I found an angry customer service ticket where a teenager was angrily complaining about a few days shipping delay. How badly I then needed those words in 652 of Meditations? You don't have to turn this into something it doesn't have to upset you. Reading those lines again, I'm reminded of the strange
“magic within Meditations because when Marcus says you as in you have to assemble your life action”
by action or the things you think about determine the quality of your mind, he is obviously speaking
to himself and because he never intended those words to be read by anyone, this exercise in
self-improvement is so radically sincere and earnest, even painfully so at times, but it actually has the unintended benefit of speaking directly to you, helping all of us with our common problems. And as unrelatable as antiquity might seem, human beings remain ever the same, this is why Meditations has endured for almost 2,000 years. Why great leaders throughout history have carried it into battle, why businessmen and athletes and stay at home
moms and so many others turned to it for guidance today, for whatever struggles and obstacles they face. However, I believe that Marcus and his Meditations wouldn't have the impact it has had today if it weren't for this beautiful English translation by Gregory Hayes. It was
“that translation that I first picked up all those years ago and I think it remains one of the best”
you can get today. And when the daily stoic decided to publish a leather bound addition of that, there was no question which translation we were going to ask for. It was going to be the Hayes translation. And you can grab copies of that, I'll link to it in today's show notes. But if you're curious about what Meditations has meant to me or you have questions about that book or Marcus Reels, I would love to invite you. We're doing a live Q&A session. We're going to do a deep dive
into Meditations. And if you get our how to read Marcus Reels's Meditations, this guy we made with
Daily stoic, that's how you can receive your invite.
for some savings and a bunch of other awesome stuff. So just head over to daily stoic.com/meditations to grab those and learn about Meditations month here at daily stoic. That's daily stoic.com/meditations.
