The Ryan Holiday Effect

 Ryan Holiday of the Daily Stoic

Discusses Marcus Aurelius 



    Holiday discusses how Meditations is unique in that it is a writer taking down his thoughts without the assumption that people will ever read them, opposed to the writings of most writers who are writing for an audience, which makes this work by Marcus Aurelius even more impactful. 

    Rogan and Holiday state that the works are from nearly 900 years ago but are still relevant today. Even though Marcus spoke Latin, the "Philosophical Language" of the time was Greek, so Marcus would write these meditations to himself in beautiful Greek. Even so, it is easy for the common man in many interpretations to identify with Marcus Aurelius. 

    They spoke of Marcus being vigilant to not become too big or "stained purple. He was aware of the limits a leader should have on their own self. 

    They mention how his son is crappy and an architype for "movie" bad emperors. 

    Marcus Aurelius rose to power basically by being a good kid and a good guy that was adopted by another great mentor and emperor and was lucky to have a long apprenticeship into leadership with good mentors.

    They speak of Faustina and Marcus losing 7 children before adulthood. "The wrong kid died."

    Even though taught by stoics to eliminate threats to the throne, he elected his brother as co-emperor giving a sense of checks in power. He wanted his sons to all grow to be co-emperors but they died, leaving the worst one. 

    Marcus tried to give his son advisors but he got rid of them. They end with how many great men have bad sons. 

(This is 15 minutes of a 2-3 hour podcast) 

  

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