“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.”
- From ‘Serenity Prayer’ by Reinhold Niebuhr.
Of course, Marcus Aurelius got there first. His Meditations may be the most valuable collection of observations ever made by any leader in history. At a time of extraordinary political, economic and technological change, its practical wisdom endures. Consider, for example, the following..
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