Ron Toland
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  • Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius

    Not what I expected. I’d always thought the Meditations was a set of philosophical aphorisms. Instead, it’s something between a diary and a daily “deep thought”, a recording of a conversation an Emperor of Rome was having with himself.

    As such, it’s repetitive and very personal, and yet somehow still relevant, hundreds of years after it was written.

    Three things I found useful:

    • Try to learn from everyone, even (especially) the ones you disagree with.
    • If you know someone’s a jerk, don’t expect them to treat you fairly. And definitely don’t get angry with them for it, since you knew who they were from the start.
    • Success and failure happen to everyone, over and over again. So there shouldn’t be pride in the former, or shame in the latter.
    → 9:00 AM, Dec 27
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