The “Fellow Trainee” Method of Not Taking Things Personally (Aurelius – Meditations 6:20)

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Synopsis: In yesterday’s episode we discussed Epictetus’s method of “using impressions” to change our experience of life. In today’s episode Marcus Aurelius gives us an impressions-based technique for dealing with injuries and insults from our fellow human beings – one which might help us to implement the loftier and more philosophically attuned methods mentioned elsewhere by Aurelius and by the Rambam.

Sources:
- Aurelius, Meditations 6:20; 2:1
- Rambam: Mishneh Torah, Hilchos Deios 7:7
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Stoic texts:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
Letters from a Stoic Master (Seneca)
The Discourses of Epictetus
The Enchiridion (Handbook) of Epictetus
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