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Phil Yanov is a community builder, teacher, and public voice for Stoic philosophy. As host of Conversations with Modern Stoicism and a member of the Modern Stoicism Advisory Board, he connects philosophical insights with modern life.
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What would Marcus do when a company meeting appears with no explanation? (opens the original)
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A company-wide meeting appears on the calendar for Thursday morning with no agenda attached. By lunch your team has three theories about it, and every one of them ends badly.“Do not say more to yourself than the first impressions report. You have been told that some one speaks evil of you. This is what you have been told; you have not been told that you are injured.”— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.49 (Farquharson)I have spent an afternoon guessing at what an unexplained meeting meant, and every
What would Marcus do when your former peer is now your manager? (opens the original)
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A year ago you and your new manager did the same job, split the same workload, and complained about the same directives after hours. Now they run your one-on-ones, approve your time off, and initial the plan you used to help write.“I have seen standing in the line, before the door of Callistus, the former master of Callistus; I have seen the master himself shut out while others were welcomed—the master who once fastened the ‘For Sale’ ticket on Callistus and put him in the market along with the
What would Marcus do when you’re succeeding at a job you no longer want? (opens the original)
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The job doesn’t move you the way it used to. You’ve caught yourself drafting a resignation email you have no intention of sending, for the third time this year. You tell yourself you’re done and almost believe it, but you haven’t actually checked whether that’s true or just the story that’s easiest to reach for.“Be not hurried away by the rapidity of the appearance, but say, Appearances, wait for me a little: let me see who you are, and what you are about: let me put you to the test.” — Epictetu
What would Marcus do when you’re asked to publicly support a decision you argued against? (opens the original)
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You’re being asked to support a decision you argued against, and to do it publicly.“...whatever to your own private feelings, although legitimate and provoked by the facts, must, nevertheless, be left unsaid.” — Marcus Aurelius to Fronto, Correspondence, ?140–143 A.D. (trans. C. R. Haines)I have let my face say what I’d agreed not to say out loud.Marcus, still young, once wrote his tutor Fronto careful advice about a lawsuit Fronto was preparing against a man he privately felt deserved harsh tre
What would Marcus do when the point you’ve made twice finally lands when someone else makes it? (opens the original)
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You raise the same point in two meetings. In the third, someone else says it and gets credit for the insight.“If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47 (trans. George Long)It didn’t seem fair, and I have replayed that meeting enough times to redraft the transcript in my favor.This is a chance to let it go. It might sting, so ask why. N
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