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How Today’s Managers Can Handle Defeats
And grow during a crisis
2000 years ago, during what was known as the Golden Age of the Roman Empire, the Antoninus plague spread across the world. A pandemic broke out. The economies were on the brink of imploding. The people of ancient Rome looked up to their Emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Most children didn’t yield the fruits of adulthood. The families drowned in debt and starvation.
Marcus Aurelius’s task was a job impossible to pull off. He faced outcries from his people, and a military uprising from his government to throw him out of power. It was a time when to answer the unstoppable forces of the uncertain world, he had to become an immovable object.
From 166 A.D. to 180 A.D, Marcus Aurelius’s final 14 years were spent in deep introspection and knowing what was in his control at the time. The deep introspection is what brought the world to the book; Meditations, which strengthened the moral tenets of a branch of philosophy called ‘Stoicism.’
But the question remains, are the principles of stoicism still relevant in today’s lifestyle and the epidemic of business losses?
