There’s Only One Path To Greatness | Try the Other Handle
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🗓️ 14 June 2021
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“Thirteen years before Marcus Aurelius would be old enough to legally hold any public post, Hadrian decided something extraordinary: he was going to make Marcus Aurelius the emperor of Rome. What was it that Hadrian saw in this young boy?”
Ryan discusses the importance of reading, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:41.9 | There's only one path to greatness |
| 0:45.5 | 13 years before Marcus Aurelius would be old enough to legally hold any public post |
| 0:50.2 | Hadrian decided to do something extraordinary. He was going to make Marcus Aurelius the future emperor of Rome |
| 0:57.7 | What was it that Hadrian saw in this young boy? |
| 1:00.4 | What gave him the sense that he was destined for great things? |
| 1:03.7 | Hadrian regarded himself as the greatest polymath of all time |
| 1:07.3 | Frank McClendon says in his biography of Marcus Aurelius and Hadrian wasn't bashful about his affection for other intellectuals |
| 1:14.7 | Hadrian bestowed honors and riches on tragedians, grammarians, comedians and |
| 1:20.7 | Rederaticians McClendon says like it or not Hadrian judged a man by his interest in literature |
| 1:26.3 | From an early age Marcus Aurelius showed that he fit that bill his tutor |
| 1:31.0 | Fronto wrote that Marcus used to go about in public with two serious a face and used to read books at the theater and at |
| 1:37.7 | Bankwitz |
| 1:38.5 | McClendon talks about how the worst that his detractors could say about him |
| 1:42.5 | Was that he sometimes took books from the city libraries for his own use? |
| 1:46.9 | That was exactly the kind of person that Hadrian was drawn to young or old Hadrian believed that a love of reading was one of the |
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