Essential Life Skills
Face the Essential Truths through Meditations
Theme-by-theme chapter breakdowns of the essential life skills in this classic work. 6 deep dives tracing how Marcus Aurelius's story teaches skills you can use today.
From My Grandfather Verus
Credit Verus, Rusticus, and Antoninus by name: gentleness, Epictetus, and a ruler who never mistakes flattery for respect.
You Do Not Need the Seashore
Retreat into the mind Book Four trains: obstacles feed a strong fire, and you do not need the seashore if the principles are already stored.
An Idle Curious Man
Use the Granua drill before the day begins: expect the idle and the envious, and refuse to hate a stone for falling.
The Tumult Is Opinion
Keep ruling reason from becoming a slave to appetite, reputation, or other people's opinions, and release what is not yours.
Hippocrates Died Sick
Sit with Hippocrates dying sick, Alexander and the mule-driver both gone, and time that will not return.
It Is a Man
Talk yourself out of the warm bed the way Book Five does: bees already work, rest has a stint, and duty does not.