Welcome to the Daily store podcast. Where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight and wisdom everyday life each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of History's Greatest men and women for more. You can visit us they leased out that cam put the weight right on me.
So much happens in life. There is so much happening forget macro events. There are dogs that get sick in the middle of the night. There are trips that need to be made to the store their unpleasant conversations to have bills that somebody has to pay dishes to be done hard decisions to make most people's reaction. Especially when those macro events are stressing them out on top of everything is to shirk its to see if someone else can handle all of it for them. It's to try to get out of
Whatever can be got out of its to resent even the idea of obligation, but the stoic a stoic politely sings to themselves that lyric from one of the greatest songs of all time. And you put the load right on me you put the load right on me remember in a crisis a pandemic just like this one Marcus Aurelius stepped up. In fact, the famous story about Marcus Aurelius is that he didn't want to be Emperor at all. He wasn't sure he could do it.
But the night he was informed of the news. He had a dream in that dream. He had shoulders made of ivory. It was a sign he could do it. His shoulders could bear the weight put the load right on me. He said to himself and he bore it for the rest of his life. Things are hard right now. They are scary. They are not your fault, but they are your responsibility. They are yours to
step up to and carry because you have the shoulders that can bear.
The wait what makes Marcus great are his teachers in the early influences in his life rooster kiss antoninus Pius. I mean the whole opening section of meditations is him really acknowledging the people who were formative and helping him become the man that philosophy wanted him to become and that's the story. I tell in my new book The Boy Who would be king. It's an illustrated fable about the early years of Marcus Aurelius how this little boy was selected from
Purity and ruled the world and did so without being corrupted by it. He really did become the man that philosophy wanted him to be and that book is now out. It's available everywhere. I've been working on this book for the last year. It came out of the pandemic for me something I've wanted to do for a really long time. You can check it out. Go to daily Stoke.com king or you can pick up the boy who would be king. Any where books are sold including on Amazon. But if you buy it from us at dailystep.com King you get the audio book for free chose me reading it.
And a bunch of other cool people so check it out the boy who would be king and we should learn to lead like Marcus Aurelius and we should try to not just make stoicism proud, but we should try to make the example of Marcus Aurelius proud.
