What Marcus Aurelius Would Tell a Tired Man in 2026 Stoic Motivation For When You Feel Lost. Modern life drains people in ways they don’t always understand, constant pressure, comparison, distraction, ...

In the mid-’90s, not long after I graduated from college, a friend insisted I read “The Manual,” by the Roman Stoic philosopher Epictetus. For an ungainly introvert like myself, the book’s premise was ...