Summary: Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. This week’s selection comes from Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations. He believes that doing the right thing should come freely from within ourselves, not be forced out by outside circumstances: “You should take no action unwillingly, selfishly, uncritically, or with conflicting motives.
