![]() ![]() Each email will help you cultivate strength, insight, and wisdom to live your best life. Every morning, we send a short (~500 word) email inspired by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and more. This post is just a small sample of the kind of lessons, ideas, and stories we write about in our daily email newsletter. The Stoics not only wrote about how to persevere, they used Stoicism to persevere in the face of plagues, exiles, imprisonment, and wars. Camus writes, “One must imagine Sisyphus happy.” So, how do we persevere well ? How do we persevere happily? Existence itself, in other words, is persevering. Absurdist Albert Camus wrote that life is like the Sisyphean task of pushing a boulder up a mountain for all of eternity. The question of why and how we are supposed to live has been contemplated for centuries. It stands unmoved and the raging of the sea falls still around it.” - Marcus Aurelius “To be like the rock that the waves keep crashing over. ![]()
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