Episode
Stop Managing Your Emotions. Train Your Brain Instead.
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- The Wired to Win Podcast
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- Mar 27, 2026
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- 1955
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Summary
Marcus Aurelius had a morning routine. Neuroscience just proved why it worked. The ruler of the most powerful empire in the ancient world spent every morning doing something that neuroscience has spent thirty years documenting. He was not managing his emotions. He was training the neural architecture that determined how his emotions arose in the first place. Here is what he was actually doing and why the first twenty minutes of your day are the most neurologically consequent...