| Before we get into the Saturday Review … in case you missed it earlier this week, we announced our newest course—How to Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (A Daily Stoic Guide). It's the conclusive companion to guide you through a deeper and more personal understanding of Meditations, filled with hours of videos and podcasts from Ryan Holiday to enrich your reading experience. The course officially launches on Marcus Aurelius' birthday, April 26. Head over to dailystoic.com/meditations and sign up TODAY! PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: As wonderful as life is, we do not actually possess it, not fully anyway. No matter how powerful or important or rich or healthy we are. Marcus Aurelius got this lesson as he buried one child after another and then faced it himself when he died of the plague which would come to bear his name. The emperor might have seemed like a god, but in the end, he was a mortal man like the rest of us. Indeed, every Stoic who was ever born had to give back the gift, every person who was ever born will. None of us will be exempted from this rule. Read: You Do Not Own This
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  While signing copies of his newest book Right Thing, Right Now, Ryan Holiday shares Stoic wisdom on taking action and accomplishing your goals: "In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius says that you assemble your like action by action, step by step — no one can stop you from that. And 15,000 copies is a long way from now, but I'm not thinking about that. I'm not thinking about how long it is, or how much time it'll take. All I'm thinking about is these questions: 'Am I making some positive steps on it today?' 'Am I doing just a little bit?' Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Jeff Waldman on how memento mori inspired him to change his career, why it's so vital to develop competence, and the importance of re-reading books like Meditations: "It works that way. You planted that seed, and it was in there gnawing away for a while. And then one day you read it for the eighth time and maybe it lands a little different today — it motivates that change today." Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast Listen ad-free with Wondery plus or on Amazon Music with your Prime membership.
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As Jeff Waldman puts it above, books like Meditations are books you read multiple times to receive all the knowledge and wisdom its pages have to give. That's what How to Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (A Daily Stoic Guide) is all about …  How to Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is a set of 11 modules—which you can work through at your own pace—designed to help you get the most wisdom and very best tools Stoicism has to offer and apply them to your life. The guide includes … ✓ The conclusive companion to guide you through a deeper and more personal understanding of Meditations
✓ Hours of videos and podcasts from Ryan Holiday to enrich your reading experience of Meditations
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✓ Journaling and Reflection Prompts — exercises and questions to deepen your engagement with the text and your practice of Stoicism. The course officially launches on April 26, Marcus Aurelius' birthday. "To live a good life," Marcus writes in Meditations, "we have the potential for it." Head over to dailystoic.com/meditations and seize your potential for the good life TODAY! | 
