Who was Marcus Aurelius?

It is amazing Meditations, year after year and read after read, feels both incredibly timely and incredibly timeless (there’s a reason the book has endured now for almost twenty centuries).

It’s amazing that a person so famous—known to millions in his own lifetime and subject to countless books and articles and movies—could still be giving off new secrets, but indeed that’s what he’s doing.

In this video Ryan Holiday outlines 18 things you probably don’t know about one of the greatest thinkers, philosophers, and leaders who ever lived.

00:00 Intro
01:17 He lived through a pandemic
02:42 He was a crier
03:29 His nickname was “Verissimus"
04:01 He had insomnia
04:41 He had a sense of humor
05:11 His most trusted general attempted a coup
06:01 He spent 12 years at war
06:50 He had a co-emperor
08:00 He lost EIGHT children
08:49 He liked the simple life
09:15 He never claimed to be a Stoic
09:52 He actually loved his wife
10:28 He had imposter syndrome
11:29 He once held a garage sale
12:13 He was a nerd and a jock
13:18 He had his life changed by a book
14:11 He wrote in Greek
14:45 He spent his last moments consoling others

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