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5 Stoic Lessons Every Multidisciplinary Professional Should Know

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Oct 06, 2024
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Hello, and welcome to The School of Knowledge, a newsletter that helps entrepreneurs and professionals convert worldly wisdom from books into actionable insights📚💡

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“People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time even when hard at work.”

- Marcus Aurelius

Approaching 2000 years old, Meditations, by Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius still has as much to teach today, as it did back then. Intended as a journal this timeless book is fundamental in shaping Stoic philosophy.

Filled with personal and pithy insights, this book is filled with advice ready to be used by professionals across various fields today. If you’re a multidisciplinary thinker, it’s as valuable for navigating your career as it is for tackling life’s challenges.

The book is so profound that modern Stoic Ryan Holiday re-reads this book at least once a year.

Here are 5 Stoic lessons every multidisciplinary professional should know:

  1. Nature: A Foundation for Interdisciplinary Understanding

  2. Indifference to Externals: Focus on What You Can Control

  3. Understanding the Common Good: Collaboration Across Disciplines

  4. The Pursuit of Virtue: Integrity as a Universal Principle

  5. The Power of Self-Reflection

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