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Sep 2023
10m 36s

How Do You Know If You're A Good Leader?...

Daily Stoic | Wondery
About this episode

You lead a large team. You are the head of a household. You have millions of followers or thousands of subscribers. And you often wonder,

Am I being a good leader? Am I doing right by my kids, my followers, my employees? Am I being a good steward?

It can be hard to know.

But from the Stoics, we get a fast and easy test for whether we’re doing a good job.

It’s this: Do you make people better?

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And in today's Daily Stoic video excerpt, Ryan shares the wisdom that Marcus Aurelius learned from his father about being a good person, and how we can incorporate the same advice into our lives.

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