VIDEO: Writing Hupomnēmata: Spiritual Exercises in a Time of Crisis

From my presentation ('Writing Hupomnēmata: Spiritual Exercises in a Time of Crisis') at the 2020 Stoicon-X Australia (now available on YouTube):

"We may very well imagine that writing and re-writing the Stoic essential maxims in his hupomnēmata, in his personal notebooks, proved eventually crucial for Marcus Aurelius’ capacity to survive spiritually the ordinary hardships associated with the Marcommannic Wars; so there is really no reason to assume that these very same exercises, if practiced with constancy and dedication, could prove any less useful also for us today to confront virtuously our own ordeals."