| Before we get into the Saturday Review … in case you missed it yesterday, on Marcus Aurelius' birthday, we launched our newest course—How to Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (A Daily Stoic Guide). Like a book club or an annotated version of your favorite book, it's designed to give you context, fill in the blanks, and illustrate how to apply the same "spiritual exercises" Marcus used to improve your own life. Head over to dailystoic.com/meditations and sign up TODAY! PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: How you can move on? How you can get revenge? The only way, Marcus Aurelius said, was to not be like that. To not let it ruin you, to not let it consume your life, to not let its inhumanity steal your humanity. Read: You Can't Get Even
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  Over on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares ten reasons why you should read Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, such as challenging the mind and being comfortable with the uncomfortable: "The point of philosophy is to challenge you, to make you uncomfortable. It's to fix the illnesses of the soul, of the mind. Even though there are passages of Meditations that are soothing and reassuring, a lot of them are jarring, a lot of them are uncomfortable or make you think a lot, and a lot of them you might instinctively disagree with. But that's the point of philosophy: it's not supposed to be your instructor, it's supposed to be a kind of medicine." Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt on social media's effect on social dynamics, being in "discover mode", and how the Stoics understood social media long before its time: "What comes through in these Stoic writings is that these are men who were physically tough, very disciplined, but they recognized that an attack on your reputation hurts much more than an attack on your body—that what people think of you is the most important thing. And that's the way we're wired to feel—social media just pulls us in the wrong direction." Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast Listen ad-free with Wondery plus or on Amazon Music with your Prime membership.
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As Ryan Holiday mentions above, philosophy is meant to challenge you, to make you think a lot, to cause you to re-evaluate things. That's why it helps to have a coach to guide you, to fill in the gaps and give you the context necessary to process and integrate all the wisdom within a book like Marcus Aurelius' Meditations. That's why we created How to Read Marcus Aurelius' Meditations (A Daily Stoic Guide) …  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
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✓ Journaling and Reflection Prompts — exercises and questions to deepen your engagement with the text and your practice of Stoicism. If you need copies of the book, we have what we think is the best translation you can get of Meditations in both paperback and our premium leather-bound edition. "Dig deep within yourself, for there is a fountain of goodness ever ready to flow if you will keep digging," Marcus writes in Meditations. That's why we're doing this. So that we can dig together and find that fountain of goodness within and let it flow out from us. If you want to start digging for that fountain within, head over to dailystoic.com/meditations and sign up TODAY! | 
