Stephen ScogginsFounder - CEO, Lion - Lamb Solutions · Founder CEO Unstoppable Solutions

Don’t Just Sing It, BRING IT | Marcus Aurelius Anderson #shorts

11 Sept 2026 · 1 min

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Marcus Aurelius Anderson realized at 40 that quoting philosophers like Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus means nothing without action. Stephen Scoggins says his clients often wait one to two years to act on advice and suffer for it. The point: wisdom is what you do, not what you know.

At 40 years old, I realized that in a lot of ways I felt like I'd wasted my life. What I had done was I had read a lot of books. I thought I was smart. I would pat myself on the back for being able to quote Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lao Tzu, Sun Tzu, any of these people that are great leaders or strategists, right? But I wasn't applying. And I thought that if I knew it and I could regurgitate it, that was wisdom.
Dude, I have had clients that would not do the very advice they asked for for upwards of 1 or 2 years, and they got to continually suffer through the process.
The object of wisdom is action, not acquisition of wisdom that you don't execute on. Don't sing it, bring it. Actions, not words.