Reddit reviews Meditations (Penguin Great Ideas)

Dude, you're worried about what other people think of you. Don't be. It's not something under your control. Time spent letting it bother you is time wasted. You will never be in control of what other people think. Some will like you, some will dislike you, most won't really care. That's how life is.

"I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others. ... So much more regard have we for our neighbours' judgement of us than for our own." -- Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations

I have the Penguin Great Ideas edition translated by Maxwell Staniforth. I liked it. The translation flowed well and was easy to read.

There is a newer translation by Gregory Hays I haven't read this one, but this review gives a couple of side by side comparisons.

I believe it's the Maxwell Staniforth translation: http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0143036270

And here's my abominable google query: http://books.google.com/books?id=WV7Teosv0bIC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=Think+of+your+many+years+of+procrastination;+how+the+gods+have+repeatedly+granted+you+further+periods+of+grace&source=bl&ots=qXCtL9JPyE&sig=JplnioGX2r2_lfO6Y0FnRWk27r0&hl=en&sa=X&ei=FlVVVJ72KMKyoQTSnID4Bg&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Think%20of%20your%20many%20years%20of%20procrastination%3B%20how%20the%20gods%20have%20repeatedly%20granted%20you%20further%20periods%20of%20grace&f=false

I have this one myself, lying in my bag right this moment. It's a small little thing, and seems like the best edition of the book to carry around if you've got limited space.

My copy is dog-eared, frayed and puffy from exposure to rain water, but still holds up relatively well. It's a great book to just flip over whenever you've felt like you've lost your cool and need a moment to step back and relax. Marcus Aurelius had to deal with near constant illness, a motherfucking Germanic horde and the usual posse of sycophants who linger in the shadows of rulers. Compared to that, my problems are peanuts.

Speaking of redpill reading, I feel the need to shout out Jack Donovan here. Two of his books, "The Way of Men" and "Becoming a Barbarian" have been absolutely revolutionary for me. These are dangerous books, full of dangerous ideas. The former one, in particular, is an excellent primer in masculine virtue. I bet I've given half a dozen copies away. Read them, learn them, commit them to memory. Also recommended: "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius and "Letters from a Stoic" by the one and only Seneca.

Read the Maxwell Staniforth translation of Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations". Here is a link.
Beyond that, always live at the edge of your comfort zone - wherever that is for you. Don't get caught in the trap of building a life of safety and escapism. Identify who you want to be and what you want for your life and go after it. You'll know you're on the right path when you're scared as shit half the time while drawing upon inner resources to make it happen anyway.
What you are essentially doing is cultivating character which is one of the greatest things you can do.
And don't skip the Meditations book. Read it.

There is a public domain translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations available on MIT
The translation used here is by Maxwell Staniforth It's a very nice book with lots of helpful quotations, and highly relevant to NoFap. I suggest it.