, when the roman troops, the troops of marcus aurelius, suffered a couple of unfortunate setbacks, when in general everyone expected that they would decisively advance forward against the gallic tribes, well and there in the senate, naturally, there were speeches, discussions, complaints. to which - marcus aurelius allegedly said: war is an unpredictable thing, only fools start throwing hysterics, and after each failure. i think that this is very important and should be remembered. and i am sure that ruslan pukhov knows better than me that even when soviet troops were at the gates of berlin, when the outcome of the war was absolutely clear, even then german troops managed to achieve some local successes against both zhukov's front and konev's front, when i look at the fact that russia is opposed by a coalition of more than 50 states supporting ukraine, when i look at the fact that quite recently. several days have passed since the ukrainian invasion of the kursk region, so some conclusions can already be made, some analysis can be carried out, but i, like you, would like to start with a

one of them, marcus aurelius quote, we are what we think, we rise with the thought. >> we take on the color of what we think about. and if you are seeing what to do watching him tiktok especially the boys, a lot of it is people getting hit by cars, punched in face, not falling down. horrible stuff. hours and hours of this. it's so degrading. if we spent hours we feel dirty afterwards there are brains were sworn to before this. imagine kids going to puberty. their neurons are warming up and this is what's coming in. so anyway that's the background. chapter eight if he doesn't get you don't care about kids at all, buy the book to recheck a because that's what spiritual and now to your question. it's long been thought, , there have long been movements, can we have good thing but religion without all that god stuff? there is like sunday assembly, efforts to bring people together without the god stuff. i would imagine those things that are better than nothing because if you have rituals, if you have a group but as far as i can tell, and what we see in the date on happiness and religion, ri

stresshave t is a choice.rcus e >> marcus aurelius oncare said,r you have power over your mind, not outside events. >> realize yt outsid this and yl find strength if your carr ca breaks down, your boss insultsur you or your golf outings. randall getting angry and upset is a choice. o >> you have to accept what youu can't control and how you react to what you can't control defineu reacs you and makes youf master of your domain. after diving into stoicism, my staff can attesstoicismt i hn yelling a lot less.author ryan holiday is the author of the daily stoic and he joinss me now. i love this booknow.. the daily stoic. i read every single page immediately. >> you're supposed to kind of go by calendar, but i couldn't handle it. i just had t but io go right fo. i recommend it to the world. t but explain to people first what is the stoic philosophy? >> well, thank you fork th having me. i think the stoic philosophy is basically this idea that weco don't control what's happening around us, but we control how weits happ respond to it. >> and so for the stoics, itso r was about seizing control of t

the list of the moral philosophy books and there was cicero's tuscola in disputation and also marcus aurelius meditations. seneca's letters. and then these enlightenment philosophers, locke, hutcheson, bolingbroke. basically i felt i've got to read these books because it's a gap in my education. i've had this marvelous liberal arts education. i'm so grateful every day to the incredible who inspired me to learn political philosophy and history and law but i'd miss these books of moral philosophy. so it was covid. we had more time. i don't know what over me, but i got up every morning before dawn. i read 2 hours. i watched the sun rise, which is the most beautiful thing that anyone can experience. whenever you are lucky enough to do it. then i found myself these weird writing these sonnets to kind of sum up the wisdom that i had learned. and i know it does sound incredibly weird, but it turns out all sorts people in the founding era wrote sonnets after reading this great literature, including phillis wheatley, great black poet, and also john quincy adams, who as president would wake up the whit

the list of the moral philosophy books and there was cicero's tuscola in disputation and also marcus aurelius meditations. seneca's letters. and then these enlightenment philosophers, locke, hutcheson, bolingbroke. basically i felt i've got to read these books because it's a gap in my education. i've had this marvelous liberal arts education. i'm so grateful every day to the incredible who inspired me to learn political philosophy and history and law but i'd miss these books of moral philosophy. so it was covid. we had more time. i don't know what over me, but i got up every morning before dawn. i read 2 hours. i watched the sun rise, which is the most beautiful thing that anyone can experience. whenever you are lucky enough to do it. then i found myself these weird writing these sonnets to kind of sum up the wisdom that i had learned. and i know it does sound incredibly weird, but it turns out all sorts people in the founding era wrote sonnets after reading this great literature, including phillis wheatley, great black poet, and also john quincy adams, who as president would wake up the whit