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Stoic Lessons of Success: What Can We Learn From Marcus Aurelius?
The Stoic definition of success is fundamentally about understanding who you are as a person and the role you are called to play in society.
As a Stoicism scholar and Stoic self-help author, I won’t deny that Stoic philosophy is profoundly about sculpting your own character and success. Certainly, the Stoic founder, Zeno of Citium, made it clear that true success is living a good life. However, he didn’t mean a nice life or a particularly pleasurable one. What he meant was a life worthy of being lived (obtaining what the Greeks called