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You could leave life right now, as Marcus Aurelius says, let that determine what you do and say and think.

Life is short.

Do everything as if it was the thought or action of a dying person, Marcus says.

I think Marcus Aurelius is maybe the most fascinating person who ever lived.

You know, we have this idea that absolute power corrupts absolutely, but Marcus is the exception to this rule.

He's not born to a royal family.

He's chosen as a young man, actually, at the same age as Nero and groomed for power.

And what is the first thing he does with the power?

He shares it with his brother.

So I've been on this journey studying Marcus Aurelius since I first read Meditations, and it changed my life.

And it's changed the life of millions of people in the 2 ,000 years since he lived.

I'm Ryan Holiday.

I've written now 12 books.

I've been writing about Marcus Aurelius for more than a decade.

I've been lucky enough to talk about Marcus Aurelius to the NBA and the NFL, special forces, to sitting senators, to CEOs, and everyone in between.

And in today's episode, I wanted to give you some of my favorite lessons from the one and only Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher king.

If you want to learn about the great principles and ideas that this man lived by, I think this video is for you.

My favorite story about Marcus Aurelius comes at the depths of the Antonine Plague, which is a horrible pandemic that kills millions of people.

Rome's economy has been devastated people are dying in the streets

and everyone feels like it can't possibly get better

and what does Marcus Aurelius do he walks through the imperial palace

and begins to mark things for sale for two months

he sells on the lawn of the great emperor's palace the jewels and robes

and couches the finery owned by the emperor he's sending a message

he says I'm not going to put myself first I don't need these fancy things not

when people are struggling he says I'm going to do the little things

that make a difference to me

this is like the ceo who takes a pay cut in a bad economy

this is the athlete who renegotiates their contract

so the team can bring on new people this is the leader who sacrifices

and struggles who puts the people first not their own comfort

and needs that's what greatness is like and that's why i love this story from mark surelius

you're not stuck i know you think you are

but what the stoics wanted you to know is that yes one path might be closed, but another remains open, right?

The impediment to action advances action.

What stands in the way becomes the way.

Marcus Rebillus isn't saying that nothing can ever stop you.

He's saying that when you're stopped in one capacity, there remains other capacities open to you.

You always have the opportunity to practice virtue, practice excellence, to change in some form or another based on what's happened.

We don't control what happened.

We control how we respond.

That's what stoic philosophy is about.

So yes, one path can be closed the door can be shut

but the window remains open you know someone gets in your way someone blocks you someone prevents you sure that happens

but they can't stop you from being patient they can't stop

you from practicing forgiveness they can't stop

you from going in a different direction from changing your mind trying something new growing

because of this learning

because of it the stoics say no one prevents us from accommodating adapting changing integrating the experiences the obstacles

that are in our path

and turning them into new paths that's what the obstacle is the way is it's impossible to get stuck

because we always retain our ability to choose and change

we know what it is we need to do right

we have the information the problem is doing it marcus aurelius says

you could be good today instead you choose tomorrow we put

it off we say i'm going to get started on the diet

i'm going to get started on the novel i'm going to get started cleaning the house.

I'm not going to do it today.

I'm going to do it tomorrow.

If it was about information, no one would be overweight.

No one would be unhealthy.

Everyone would have six -pack abs.

Every project would get completed.

We know how to do it.

The problem is that we don't do it.

We don't take the steps.

That's why the Stoics had the discipline of action.

At the end of the day, it's all about the action.

It's not what you say.

It's not what you think.

It's what you do.

What action are you going to take?

What step are you going to take?

And really, that's how you finish stuff, step by step.

Just take the first step, Marcus Aurelius says.

No one can stop you from that.

It takes an immense amount of self -awareness to go, like, I'm feeling discomforted because of X, or I'm feeling anxious because of X.

You know, I think that was something for me that I found during the pandemic where suddenly I wasn't doing anything.

So I wasn't having to get to this plane.

I wasn't stuck in traffic here.

I wasn't having to prepare for this or that.

And so you'd think that my anxiety would go way down, that suddenly you'd have a lot less to worry about.

And then, actually, that's not true.

And then you realize, oh, the anxiety has nothing to do with any of the things.

It's actually, Mark Shrews talks about this in meditations.

He says, I escaped anxiety.

And then he goes, no, actually, I discarded it.

And he writes this during a plague, no less.

But he goes, I discarded it because it was within me.

That was a breakthrough I sort of had.

It was like, oh, I thought I was stressed and anxious

and worried because of all of these very reasonable things that cause those things in your life, work, family stuff.

And then when all that gets pared down, you realize it's like, oh no, it was me.

Marcus Aurelius has a better morning routine than you, I promise.

So he gets up early.

Even though he doesn't want to get up early, even though he doesn't have to get up early, he makes himself get up early.

He says, what were you made to sit here under the covers

and keep warm? were you meant to go do the work of a human being?

So he gets up early and he goes and he does his work.

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And what is the first thing he do?

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I think that he sits down with his journal.

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Meditation survives to us because it's the private thoughts of the most powerful man in the world.

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He wrote down these thoughts because they made him better.

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And then what did he do?

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He got to work on his most important task of the day.

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He says, concentrate like a Roman.

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He says, do this as if it's the last thing you're doing in your life.

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That's what Marcus Aurelius did.

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His morning routine set him up for success he didn't approach the day at random he knew

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that well begun is half done and

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so should you start your day with a morning routine

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that lets you own the day from the beginning

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it's called self -discipline nobody else signed up for it you signed up for it

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so you're you're learning and your study

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and your self -improvement you have to be sure that you're applying this only to yourself.

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Marcus Aurelius says, tolerant with others, strict with yourself.

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The purpose of all this is to make you a better master of yourself.

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It's not to make you condescending or patronizing or controlling of other people.

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It's called self -discipline for a reason.

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It's your discipline over yourself.

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You'll leave everyone else and their mistakes and their way of doing things to them.

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Mark Sebelius didn't like people.

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I mean, you can't read meditations and not see this.

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He opens meditations with a meditation on how frustrating and obnoxious other people are.

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And even this idea, this idea of the obstacle is the way, that quote is him talking about other people,

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about how people get in our way, how people present obstacles

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but he says that in that obstacle there's an opportunity to actually practice this philosophy

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that you say you believe to be good in spite of

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other people to be just in the face of injustice to be temperate in the face of intemperance

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that's being rewarded to be courageous when everyone else is being cowardly

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and being rewarded for it

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so for for the stoics people are frustrating people are an obstacle

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but like all obstacles they're also the way that's a challenge

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we can rise to meet we can be better for wrestling with other people's difficulties

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so don't resent people use them to become better you're busy i'm busy

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but how much of what we're busy with actually matters marcus rila says ask yourself with everything you do

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and say is this essential because most of what we do and say is not essential.

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And he's so right.

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Most of what we do is because people asked us to do it

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or people told us to do it or that's how we've always done it.

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Do we actually need to do it?

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If we found out we were dying tomorrow, would we keep doing it?

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Would we do it the way we're doing it?

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Absolutely not.

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So he says, when you ask yourself, is this essential?

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You eliminate so much of what you don't need to be doing.

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And then he says, you get the double benefit of now doing fewer things better

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that's why you ask yourself

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this question is this essential do i actually need to be doing it am i doing it the way

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that it needs to be done and you ask this of everything you do and say and think

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number one amor fati it didn't happen to you it happened for you fate chose

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this for you accept it embrace it bear

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it make something of it that's the idea of amor fati marx really says a fire turns everything into fuel

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and brightness that's amorphagy number two

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it's about what you do for other people marcus really says the fruit of this life is good character

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and acts for the common good right the stoics weren't trying to to study

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this philosophy to be better sociopaths to be able to make

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more money for their own sake to be more famous

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it was about what they do for other people do you

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contribute to your community to your country are you moving the ball forward for humanity

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Number three, this puts the other two in perspective, memento mori.

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You could leave life right now, as Mark Sarelius says, let that determine what you do and say and think.

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Life is short.

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Do everything as if it was the thought or action of a dying person, Marcus says.

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Life is fragile.

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The pandemic has reminded us of this.

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Live while you can.

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Seize the day.

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Those are three great lessons from Stoic philosophy you can apply right now.

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Этот урок разговорной практики построен на видео «9 Stoic Rules For A Better Life». Чаще всего повторяются слова: marcus, aurelius, stoic. В этом видео 172 предложений и 1966 слов для шедоуинга. Речь длится 10:27. Говорящий говорит быстро, около 188 слов в минуту, поэтому звуки часто сливаются и сокращаются. 86% слов входят в 3000 самых частых слов английского языка; остальные стоит разобрать перед занятием.

Ключевая лексика этого видео

15 слов из видео, которые стоит выучить, с произношением и значением:

Слово	Произношение	Значение
obstacle существительное	/ˈɑbstəkəl/	препя́тствие, прегра́да
meditation существительное	/mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/	медита́ция, разду́мье
discipline существительное	/ˈdɪsəplɪn/	дисципли́на, дисциплини́рованность
anxiety существительное	/æŋˈzaɪ.əti/	беспоко́йство, трево́га
routine существительное	/ɹuˈtin/	рути́на, распоря́док
lesson существительное	/ˈlɛs.ən/	уро́к, ле́кция
palace существительное	/ˈpælɪs/	дворе́ц, черто́г
reward существительное	/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/	награ́да, вознагражде́ние
anxious прилагательное	/ˈæŋkʃəs/	озабо́ченный, беспоко́ящийся
plague существительное	/plɛɡ/	чума́
awareness существительное	/əˈwɛɹ.nəs/	созна́ние, осозна́ние
horrible прилагательное	/ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/	ужа́сный, стра́шный
comfort существительное	/ˈkʌm.fət/	удо́бство, комфо́рт
sake существительное	/ˈseɪ̯k/	причи́на
remind глагол	/ɹəˈmaɪnd/	напомина́ть, напо́мнить

Фразовые глаголы, которые вы услышите

Слово	Значение
get up глагол	поднима́ться, подня́ться
find out глагол	узнава́ть, узна́ть
write down глагол	запи́сывать, записа́ть

Фразы, которые стоит повторять

Короткие законченные фразы из видео, которые пригодятся в повседневном разговоре:

We don't control what happened.
What action are you going to take?
What step are you going to take?
Do we actually need to do it?
Would we do it the way we're doing it?

Грамматика в этом видео

Конструкции, которые говорящий использует чаще всего, с точными словами из видео:

Конструкция	В видео
Present Perfect have/has + причастие прошедшего времени — прошлое действие, важное сейчас	I've been · I've written · has been devastated
Пассивный залог be + причастие прошедшего времени — важно, что происходит, а не кто это делает	has been devastated · might be closed · can be closed
Придаточные определительные who / which + предложение — уточнение о человеке или предмете	person who ever · Plague, which is

Произношение, на которое стоит обратить внимание

Говорящий использует 51 сокращённых и редуцированных форм, например I'm, you're, don't. Произносите их коротко, так, как слышите.

Звуки «th»: athlete /ˈæθ.liːt/, breakthrough /ˈbɹeɪk.θɹuː/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/, sociopath /ˈsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˌpæθ/
Звуки «sh» и «zh»: meditation /mɛdɪˈteɪʃn̩/, anxious /ˈæŋkʃəs/, exception /əkˈsɛpʃən/, obnoxious /əbˈnɑkʃəs/
Длинные слова — следите за ударением: anxiety /æŋˈzaɪ.əti/, difficulty /ˈdɪfɪkəlti/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, imperial /ɪmˈpɪɹ.i.əl/, eliminate /ɪˈlɪm.ɪ.neɪt/

Звуки, трудные для русскоязычных:

/w/ — губы округлены, это не /v/: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, awareness /əˈwɛɹ.nəs/, wisdom /ˈwɪzdəm/, overweight /ˌoʊvɚˈweɪt/
/h/ — лёгкий выдох, а не русское «х»: horrible /ˈhɔɹ.ɪ.bəl/, humanity /hjuˈmænɪti/, unhealthy /ʌnˈhɛl.θi/
Звонкие согласные в конце слова — не оглушайте их: reward /ɹɪˈwɔɹd/, plague /plɛɡ/, remind /ɹəˈmaɪnd/, seize /ˈsiːz/, devastated /ˈdɛv.əˌsteɪ.təd/

Как заниматься с этим видео

Прослушайте всё видео один раз молча и выпишите незнакомые слова.
Начните со скорости 0,75×, повторяйте предложение за предложением и вернитесь к обычной скорости, когда станет легко.
Запишите себя и сравните с оригиналом, обращая внимание на такие слова, как obstacle, meditation, discipline.

Что такое техника Shadowing?

Shadowing — это научно обоснованная техника изучения языка, изначально разработанная для подготовки профессиональных переводчиков и популяризированная полиглотом доктором Александром Аргуэльесом. Метод прост, но эффективен: вы слушаете аудио на английском от носителей языка и немедленно повторяете вслух — как тень, следующая за говорящим с задержкой в 1–2 секунды. В отличие от пассивного прослушивания или грамматических упражнений, Shadowing заставляет мозг и мышцы рта одновременно обрабатывать и воспроизводить реальные речевые паттерны. Исследования показывают, что это значительно улучшает точность произношения, интонацию, ритм, связную речь, понимание на слух и беглость речи — что делает его одним из самых эффективных методов для подготовки к IELTS Speaking и реального общения на английском.

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