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- Meditations –– Marcus Aurelius
- [[Ryan Holiday]] really wasn't kidding when he says "Memento mori" is the motto of the stoics. It comes up everywhere. Everything is about remembering the impermanence of life and honoring what's important because of the short life we have. Quotes, again, and explanations stemming from those quotes.
- Meditations –– Marcus Aurelius
- #comment [[Ryan Holiday]] talks about about each read of the book offers something. His first read, he realized the paragraph is about being prepared for the day, and accepting and facing mean-spirited or difficult people. But later reads of the same book revealed that the para is about working together, helping each other and not obstructing. There's lots more to be unpacked with each read.
- Why You Need To Meditate On Your Mortality
- [[Tim Ferriss]] and [[Ryan Holiday]]
- Having awareness of the impermanence of life could be greatly encouraging because it drives a sense of urgency, or even time sensitivity.
- Contemplating death allows you to realize how little all of this matters.
- A good way to think about it is to realize that It is possible that a star you're seeing is in fact light hitting your eye from a star that no longer exists. Especially to make things seem a lot smaller than it actually is.
- Certain things stick and certain things don't. Some things have a "[[time-release]]".
- [[Tim Ferriss]] and [[Ryan Holiday]]