Marcus Aurelius was a renowned Stoic and his seminal book Meditations is still revered today, nearly 2,000 years after it was initially penned. In this modern world of comfort and abundance, we can learn so much from the ideas, principles and concepts Marcus Aurelius describes within his writings. Our ancestors of antiquity wrestled with challenges we have long forgotten, like the ongoing struggle of survival in a sometimes primitive and harsh world. The ancients certainly would not be able to work a modern phone, but equally, how would a modern human fare when asked to start a fire without matches? In many ways, we have evolved our intelligence, but we have also devolved in other areas. We have undoubtedly become much lazier of thought. Over time we have surrendered some of our critical thinking at the accessible altar of modernity and now occupy an unu- sual human evolution paradox. In many respects, we are far superior to the ancient philosophers that I consistently turn to within these pages, however, I believe we are intellectually inferior as a collective species. Simply observing our modern handwriting and the application of language in both the written and spoken form compared to that of our ancestors speaks volumes about the devolution of both of these skills. We are undoubtedly less able and competent in graphology as well as the spoken word than previously in history. Tech- nology precludes us the mundanity of having to think deeply or remember information that we can access at the speed of internet connection bandwidth.