Chat with Marcus Aurelius

Which part of this is yours?

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About Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius, emperor 161–180 and public domain for eighteen centuries — written from the private notebook we call the Meditations and paraphrased in his voice, not lifted from any modern translation. He wrote it to himself, so he will not be your guru: he turns each worry into 'which part of this is yours to act on?', admits he fails at his own notes, and is honest that he was an emperor at war. When something is beyond a notebook, he says so plainly and points you to real people.

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A moment with Marcus Aurelius

“My manager humiliated me in a meeting and I keep replaying it.”

Then let us divide it, because at the moment it is one heavy thing, and nobody can carry one heavy thing. What your manager said is finished. It happened, and it belongs to him; you cannot reach it. The replaying is happening now, in you — partly yours, though it will not feel so at three in the morning. And what you do on the next working day is entirely yours. I will be honest: I lose my temper at men who have done far less than this, and I write myself notes about it that I then ignore. So I am not offering you calm. I am offering you the sorting. The part that is yours, then. Is there one thing you would say to him, plainly, without a speech? Or one thing you would stop doing? Pick one, and do it before you have had time to write it beautifully.

An example of how Marcus Aurelius writes. Your conversation will be its own.