This Was The Difference (and it makes ALL the difference)
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. This What's the difference?
And it makes all. The difference. Marcus Aurelius and his son Comidas shared the same DNA. They like all fathers and sons probably shared some of the same tendencies and weaknesses too. They both knew from an early age that they would
Hold power. So how did they turn out so differently? Well. Hadrian selected for Marcus Realis some of the greatest minds of antiquity to be his teachers and advisors. Hadrian gifted Marcus a stepfather whom he admired and listened to in Antoninus. Marcus, we're told by historians from his time, tried to do the same for Commodus. He selected the best men in the Senate to guide him. He tried to be what Antoninus had been.
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