Podcasts that mention 📚 Meditations by Aurelius Marcus

It is now incumbent upon me as a parent to not only do the best that I can, but make sure that the best that I am giving Traveler is the best for him, not the best for me, and what systems that I was given will work, and what systems I have the ability to— I was telling a friend last night if I look back six generations into my family and saw that every male in my family line had cancer, but I had the ability, it would stop with me; I would get cancer, yeah, but it would stop with me and Traveler wouldn't get cancer, yeah, I would do anything in the world, of course, that is anger, and that has been the through line for my family, huh, this anger.

The guest reflects on his responsibilities as a parent, drawing connections between his family's struggles with anger and health, and the insights from 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius. He emphasizes how reading the Stoics has influenced his approach to breaking generational patterns.

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