8: Marcus Aurelius – How To Find Your Purpose (Stoicism)

Philosophies for Life

In this episode we will be talking about 10 important insights for finding your life purpose from the writings of Marcus Aurelius. He was also a devout student of the philosophy of Stoicism. During his rule, Aurelius found the time to construct a series of autobiographical writings, now known as the Meditations. In these writings, the Marcus Aurelius offered a number of key insights on how to find your purpose in life.
So here are 10 important insights for finding your life purpose from Marcus Aurelius.
1. Your purpose is in front of you - which is to make the most of your present
2. Your purpose is to add value
3. Ask yourself Are you happy?
4. Just start
5. Purpose is meaningless without self-discipline
6. Stop worrying about the outcome
7. Find a role model
8. Ignore negative people
9. An obstacles is really a way through
10. There is never an end
I hope you enjoyed watching the video and hope you find these insights very insights very helpful to for your self discipline.
Even though Marcus Aurelius wrote it 2,000 years ago — his insights on Stoicism still carry strong weight today. Stoicism is a school of Hellenistic philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the early 3rd century BC. Even though it is over 2000 years old, more and more people are discovering how Stoicism is not only relevant to modern times, but can be applied in very simple, yet strong ways.