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- I know exactly how I want to handle things when I’m calm, and then the moment hits and I forget all of it
- The noise and demands of everyone around me get inside my head until I have no peace anywhere
- I’m never actually in what I’m doing
- I know who I’m going to deal with today
- This one problem has swelled up to fill my entire field of vision, like it’s the only thing in the world
Practices that may help
- Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It
Meditations was Marcus Aurelius’ private journal — a set of self-directed exercises for keeping his judgment steady while running an empire: writing to himself, rehearsing the day’s difficult people, separating events from his opinions about them, and remembering how small and brief it all is. The strongest evidence for these is their direct line into cognitive behavioral therapy and into expressive-writing and self-distancing research. - Write to yourself (the Meditations method)
Keep a private notebook where you argue yourself back to your own principles, in your own words.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Retreat to the inner citadel
When the world presses in, withdraw into your own mind — the one place no one can occupy.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Do the task in front of you, fully
Treat each present action as if it were your last, with full attention and no half-measures.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Premeditate the difficult people
Each morning, expect to meet the ungrateful, the arrogant, and the dishonest — and pre-decide your response.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Place it in the scale of the whole
Set your problem against the size of the universe and the brevity of all human time.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Account for what you owe others
Regularly recall, by name, the people and gifts that made you who you are.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Daily training of the ruling faculty
Treat every day’s difficulties as training material for strengthening the ruling faculty.
The Inner Citadel - Strip the event to the bare facts
Describe what actually happened without the story you’ve wrapped around it.
Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It - Prosoche — the practice of attention
Maintain constant, vigilant attention to your own thoughts, judgments, and impulses as they arise.
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
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- Meditations Marcus Aurelius Summary
Meditations was Marcus Aurelius’ private journal — a set of self-directed exercises for keeping his judgment steady while running an empire: writing to himself, rehearsing the day’s difficult people, separating events from his opinions about them, and remembering how small and brief it all is. The strongest evidence for these is their direct line into cognitive behavioral therapy and into expressive-writing and self-distancing research.
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- Meditations As Marcus Practiced It As A Caregiver
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- Meditations As Marcus Practiced It At Work
Meditations was Marcus Aurelius’ private journal — a set of self-directed exercises for keeping his judgment steady while running an empire: writing to himself, rehearsing the day’s difficult people, separating events from his opinions about them, and remembering how small and brief it all is. The strongest evidence for these is their direct line into cognitive behavioral therapy and into expressive-writing and self-distancing research.
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