Progress Comes From Working On Yourself
- Finally, comparing ourselves to others or measuring self-worth by external indicators of success contradicts Marcus Aurelius’ emphasis on self-mastery and virtue ethics. He would argue that genuine progress emerges not from trivial competitive impulses and public measures of one’s superiority over peers. Instead, enlightenment and human flourishing derive from the inward pilgrimage one makes through practicing wisdom, discretion, the study of logic and nature, mastery over wayward impulses, and detachment from empty accolades.
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