The Boy Who Would Be King

No, I worked on a book with him, actually, called The Boy Who Would Be King.

But one of my favorite quotes from Marcus Reelist about complaining, which I actually also have in sort of fictionalized in The Boy Who Would Be King, he says don't be heard complaining at court, not even to yourself.

The boy who would be king, the girl who would be free epictetus and marks realist their stories told in fable form for all ages really proud of these two books and check them out.

I did a boy a book called The Boy Who Would Be King which is about the story of Marcus Realis and then I did a book called The Girl Who Would Be Free which is about epictetus to serve a boy and a girl one.

don't be heard complaining at court not even to yourself

The girl who would be free if follows my other book The Boy Who Would Be King, that Marcus Aurelius and the idea is that I wanted to illustrate the incredible lives and the journeys of these two philosophers on their way to their own unique and inspiring greatness. Both books are for all ages but they're especially good if you're trying to teach stosism to someone younger in your life.

I did this this kids book the boy who would be king and my favorite scene in the whole book is when Risticus Gizmark is really a book and he gives him a book and another and another and another and he says what does reading books have to do with being a king and Risticus says through the pages of a book we can learn quite easily what others gained only through great difficulty that's what reading is it's a shortcut it's the only shortcut that exists in this life that allows you to learn from the experiences of others don't learn by painful trial and error learn from the experiences of others take books add your experiences to that and that's how you become wise and great

as well as the boy who would be king. My book about Marcus are really is if you're looking for kids books for about the still ex but this was a great conversation.

this story of the the shoulders, Marcus and his shoulders is also told in the boy who would be king

If you want to tell the story of Marcus who realized to your children, I wrote it for my two young sons and you know they roll their eyes now when they hear Marcus's name but I but I think the message is getting across and I think it'll work for your kids too.

in my book The Boy Who Would Be King which is about the boyhood of Marx's realist, Roussicus places in Marx's hand a book and then another and another and another and Marx says what does a reading books have to do with being a king and Roussicus says everything.

I had this idea that I was thinking about for a long time. I didn't quite know how to do it. I didn't know if I was ready for it or if it would work. I've been wanting to do a kid's book or a fable about Marcus Aurelius' journey, the idea that this kid is selected to become emperor.

I actually wrote it and finished it during the pandemic. I did this book called The Boy Who Would Be King.

Anyways, I'm very proud of this book and it's got a special place in my heart because I got to read it so many times and work on it with my kids.

I was thinking about doing my first kids book and I said I need an amazing illustrator who don't need to bring these ideas to life. He said you got to talk to the sky Victor which I did and Victor has been an amazing collaborator and really brought this book to life and in today's episode we have an in-depth discussion about stoicism what it was like for him trying to draw and bring Epictetus to life not just as this ghost from the past but per my vision of switching Epictetus from the male to the female because I wanted the book to be relatable to a broader swathe of people.

the boy who became in the girl who'd be free I self published which meant I had all the control that I sometimes am frustrated that I don't have on my bigger books and you know you sort of be careful what you wish for because you get the control but now you also have all the responsibility and the frustration and the obligation it's it's it's you realize it has given me some empathy for my publisher because suddenly I'm like oh yeah a lot of this isn't in their control either and I'm taking personally or holding them responsible for things that we're out of their hands too.

I especially love is when people talk about how their their kids continually come back to the book yes in those comments and that was probably the most consistent comment I got from the boy from friends who I gave the book to and they even Matt Taibi was telling me like his son read it all the way on a long drive I mean over and over again he just was hooked by the story

I've only found stars in for a few months I read your book the boy who would be king

I've been talking a lot about the book on the podcast I hope you check it out it's just like my first book The Boy Who Would Be King which thousands of people all over the world have loved if you are a parent you've got nieces or nephews are thinking about becoming a parent maybe you're a teacher you want to teach the ideas of stoicism to someone who's not a big reader I think this book is for you I can't wait for you to check it out

if you pre-order the girl who would be free it's out next week you can get the ebook an audio book for free if you buy a sign copy you can get the boy who would be king for free if you order an unsigned copy I'll even give you the boy who would be king for 50% off so we got a bunch of awesome bonuses check that out go over to daily stoward.com slash girl

Last year I put out this book, The Boy Who Would Be King about the boyhood of Marcus Aurelis.

It's written by me in The Vane of The Boy Who Would Be King.

I love The Boy Who Would Be King.

I also try to tell this story about trying to find that goodness and that peace and that stuff in your soul in the boy who would be king.

Those marks really, this is beautiful observations about nature from the Gregory Hayes translations. I put my own spin on it there in the boy who would be king, which you can check out in the Daily Stoke store. We have signed copies here at the Painted Portge as well.

In my book The Boy Who Would Be King Marcus Aurelius Struggles as he did in real life with the sudden and immense burden of power.

At first I thought I was unlucky that this happened to me, he says, but now I see that it was a gift.

The job of emperor was a gift, he says because you made it one.

I think of all the books I've written The Boy Who Would Be King is the one that's the most uniquely proud of because I wrote it in the early days of the pandemic with and for my oldest son.

It's just a story I really wanted to tell because how did Marcus become who he did? How did he turn this burden slash overwhelming opportunity into such greatness and I tried to write a fable for all ages that would teach those lessons.

As I say in the boy who would begin, all the things Marcus Aurelius did made him very popular. It's not why he did it. He did it because they're the right thing.

If you read my book The Boy Who Would Be Canne which is one of the pieces of work I'm most proud of, I've made it during the pandemic for my four and with my two sons. It's about the boyhood sort of rise of Marcus Aurelius' philosophical origins, what makes him the great philosopher king that he was.

Marcus Aurelius would have never chosen to be emperor. It was destiny that chose him as I tell about in my book, The Boy Who Would Be King.

Adam was instrumental in influencing, it gave all sorts of great direction and advice when I was coming up with the idea for the boy who would be king at the beginning of the pandemic.

I sent you like a really really draft of it and you gave me a bunch of amazing notes but I was going through the notes and I you were so nice you sent me like a handful of them uh you you looked at it a handful of times but as I'm looking at what your notes are saying i see two themes one you kept telling me to like simplify just like pair it down you're like does this character even need to be in here right like well what about you know what is you kept simplifying and then the other thing you kept sort of looking at is like what is the arc of the characters right like what they're going from here to here and you you sort of um boiled The Boy Who Would Be King Down to the central conflict of like the world and Julius Rousticus want Marcus it really is to be great and she wants to be a kid and that that's like the conflict right

And we've said this before to whom much is given, much is expected. It's actually a line from the Bible that's in my book, The Boy Who Would Be King as well.

the best revenge is to not be like that. He said, so the best revenge is not to be like a bad person, to be like the person who wronged you.

the way to beat a cheater is to not be like them

it's impossible to learn that which you think you already know

just that you do the right thing, the rest doesn't matter

fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you

I'm so proud of it one Amazon reviewer said The Boy Who Would Be King will teach anyone of all ages and it's a book to be cherished among all.

I'm really proud of this book it was an honor to make it to bring it into the universe I've loved hearing from people so check out The Boy Who Would Be King go to dailystoic.com slash king of course check it out on Amazon.

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A book isn't a mirror, it's a door.

But the book isn't about boys at all, it's about destiny, it's about becoming whoever you were meant to be.

They say if you only read books that everyone else is reading, you will only think what everyone else is thinking. If you look for mirrors, you'll only see yourself. Instead we need to look for windows and doors.

I'd love for you to check out The Boy Who Would Be King. I'd love to introduce you to this timeless, ageless story for all the aspiring leaders in your life.

Yes, it's about a boy who would be king, but it's really about all of us, all of us who are trying to become who we are meant to become in this life.

As I say in The Boy Who Would Be King, all the things Marcus Aurelius did made him very popular. That's not why he did it. He did it cause they're the right thing.

And that's the story I tell in my new book, The Boy Who Would Be King. It's an illustrated fable about the early years of Marcus Aurelius.

How this little boy was selected from obscurity and ruled the world and did so without being corrupted by it. He really did become the man that philosophy wanted him to be.

And that book is now out. It's available everywhere. I've been working on this book for the last year. It came out of the pandemic for me. Something I've wanted to do for a really long time.

So check it out, The Boy Who Would Be King.

Indeed that's really what's so impressive about Marcus Aurelius and what I tried to show in my new book The Boy Who Would Be King.

Marcus Aurelius was chosen for absolute power and somehow it not only didn't corrupt, it made him better because of who he was. Because of the work he had done in his younger years. The reading and studying and seeking out good mentors.

Power revealed what Marcus had striven long to cultivate. Good soul and a good heart.

I tell that incredible story, one of the stories that inspires me more than anything else in my new book The Boy Who Would Be King, which you can grab in the Daily Stoke Store, get the audiobook for free.

I just did this sort of children's or I guess I just did this fable about Marcus Aurelius as a young boy

it's called The Boy Who Would Be King

it's a crazy idea I give them credit for coming up with it

I tell this story in The Boy Who Would Be King too, because it's such a simple, beautiful lesson worth considering whatever your age, whoever you are.

Even in the worst times we have more than we need, even in the worst times we can find some way to be generous to others.

And look, you can get The Boy Who Would Be King in the Daily Stoic store and if you order from us we'll send you the audio book for free.

I do hope you check out the physical version of the book because I think it itself is a work of art. I'm so proud of it.

It feels incredible to me that the thing that was just an idea in my head is now a real book.

It's an illustrated fable about the early years of Marcus Aurelius how this little boy was selected from obscurity and ruled the world and and did so without being corrupted by it he really did become the man that philosophy wanted him to be and that book is now out it's available everywhere

And that's what I write about in The Boy Who Would Be King. And today is the day it's out. It's available. You can order it here in the Daily Stoic Store. We have signed copies. We'll even give you an audiobook for free. And it's now on Amazon as a Kindle and as a hardcover.

I'm so proud of this book. I remain endlessly fascinated with Marcus Aurelius' early life because clearly it was so formative. It shaped him into being the great man he was able to be.

That's what I want to help do with my kids. That's what I feel lucky enough to have had other people do in my life, although I'm not saying I'm nearly as great. I'm just saying the early influences of my life shaped me and I'm still trying to live up, trying to fight to be who they wanted me to be. And I'm so proud of this book. I know you'll love it.

For the last year I've been hard at work on my newest book, A Way to Tell the Incredible Story of the Life of Marcus Aurelius.

And now that book is available in an illustrated form told for all ages. It's called The Boy Who Would Be King.

I wrote it in the depths of the pandemic, not unlike the one Marcus Aurelius lived through the Antonine Plague, and this beautifully handcrafted book which I am so proud of is available for pre-order now.

It's 100 pages published entirely by me and my company, and it's printed here in the United States, and it has some amazing color illustrations from the great Victor U-Haas.

I can't wait for you to read this awesome timeless fable for all ages. I know it'll make a great gift, and I know you and your family will get a lot out of it.

In the midst of the pandemic, not unlike a pandemic that Marcus Aurelius went through, I was trying to talk to my kids about the lessons we needed to learn from this. And the result is my newest book, The Boy Who Would Be King.

A hundred page, beautifully illustrated all ages fable about the journey of Marcus Aurelius from an ordinary boy to the ruler of the known world.

How did he do it? What did he need to learn? Who taught him? What does his experience teach us? These are timeless questions.

These are the kinds of truths best delivered in a story in a fable.

It's the first book we've ever fully self-published here at Daily Stoke. It's printed here in the United States and each page features amazing illustrations done by my friend Victor Yuhasu's work you've probably seen in Rolling Stone.

This parable, one that has so influenced me, that I so marvel at, is now the subject of my latest book, illustrated and told for all ages.

It's called The Boy Who Would Be King. It's 100 pages of text and beautiful illustrations done by my friend, the illustrator Victor Juhaas, whose work you might have seen in Rolling Stone.

And it's the first book we've ever published here ourselves at The Daily Stoic.

And as a special bonus, if you pre-order The Boy Who Would Be King now or anytime before March 9th, 2021, I'll give you the audiobook as well.

It's a timeless tale told for all ages that makes for a great book. Probably the question I get more than any other here at Daily Stoic is how can I tell my kids about stoicism? Well this is one attempt to do that.