One Question to Find a Sense of Tranquility

If you’re wondering why you’re not happy, why things are always hard, try this thought experiment from the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius

Ryan Holiday
Forge
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4 min readApr 5, 2021

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We can imagine that Marcus Aurelius was a busy man, perhaps the busiest man in the world. He had 14 children. He was living through a pandemic. He had a nagging…

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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