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The Daily Stoic

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The audio companion to DailyStoic.com"s daily email meditations, read by Ryan Holiday.Each daily reading will help you cultivate strength, insight and wisdom necessary for living the good life. Every word is based on the two-thousand plus year old philosophy that has guided some of history’s greatest men and women.Learn more at: dailystoic.com

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00:02:43

Just Shrug It Off

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/21

In 1961, Walker Percy published his great Stoic-inspired novel The Moviegoer. Like all classics, the book's success was by no means guaranteed. In fact, it became the subject of one of the strangest controversies in publishing history. You see, even tho...

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00:03:29

You Must Learn How To STOP

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/18

Seneca wrote about our natural, involuntary physiological responses. Someone pours cold water on you, and you shiver. They jump out of nowhere to scare you, and you let out a scream. Someone drives rudely, cuts you off, prevents you from passing, and yo...

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00:03:36

What’s Bad For The Hive Is Bad For The Bee

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/17

Although the ancient world was filled with injustices and cruelty, we moderns flatter ourselves when we give ourselves (too much) credit for our enlightened notions of fairness and empathy, because the speeches and the arguments of the ancient Greeks an...

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00:03:33

Time is a Flat Circle

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/16

It’s unlikely, given his feelings about the Christians, that Marcus Aurelius ever read any of the books in the Old Testament, but if he had read Ecclesiates he might have liked what he saw. Because like the Stoic observations that fill Meditations, over...

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00:02:26

This is How Dumb Anger Is

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/15

Seneca wrote eloquently about how absurd the need to “get even” is. No one would think to return a bite to a dog or a kick to a mule, he writes, but when someone hurts us or pisses us off, that’s exactly what we do. We smile and laugh at this clever ana...

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00:03:31

Anyone Can Strive for Virtue

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/14

“Where are all the Stoic women? Surely this is not a philosophy only for and by men.” It is a common and reasonable criticism of this philosophy, one that Daily Stoic seeks to understand and ameliorate whenever possible.Recently, we had the opportunity ...

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00:02:52

Never Stop Trying To Get Better

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/11

The Cynic philosopher Diogenes was once criticized by a passerby for not taking care of himself in his old age, for being too active when he should have been taking it easy and resting. As per usual, Diogenes had the perfect rejoinder: "What, if I were ...

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00:02:24

Tomorrow Will Have Suffering In It

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/10

Life is full of suffering, acute and benign. We come down with the flu. We are hit with a costly expense. Someone with power over us abuses their responsibility. Someone we love lies or hurts us. People die. People commit crimes. Natural disasters strik...

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00:03:06

You Must Carve Out Time For Quiet

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/09

According to the philosopher Blaise Pascal, at the root of most human activity is a desire to escape boredom and self-awareness. We go to elaborate measures, he said, to avoid even a few minutes of quiet. It was true even of the people you think had all...

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00:03:24

What a Terminal Diagnosis Changes

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/08

“What would you do if tomorrow you were diagnosed with terminal cancer?” We’ve all had a hypothetical question like that thrust in front of us at one point or another. It’s supposed to make us consider how different life might be, how drastic a change w...

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00:02:40

What Are We Fighting About, Really?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/07

There’s a great lyric in the bridge of the new Bruce Springsteen song, Tucson Train: We fought hard over nothin'We fought till nothin' remainedI've carried that nothin' for a long timeDoesn’t that just perfectly capture—in such a sad and telling way—man...

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00:02:59

Every Day is a Bonus

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/04

Here’s a way to feel good every single day, no matter what happens. A way to appreciate even a day stuck in the airport or putting out fires. It’s an exercise from Seneca. He said that a person who wraps up each day as if it was the end of their life, w...

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00:03:27

What Is Luck and What Is Not

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/03

The philosopher and writer Nassim Taleb once said that, “Hard work will get you a professorship or a BMW. You need both work and luck for a Booker, a Nobel, or a private jet.” His point was that certain accomplishments are within the reasonable grasp of...

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00:02:40

How To Always Be Well

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/02

In one of his letters, Seneca tells us of an old Roman pleasantry that friends would exchange when greeting each other: “If you are well,” one would say after inquiring how someone was doing, “it is well and I am also well.” It’s a nice little custom, i...

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00:04:22

This Is The Key To The Good Life

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/10/01

Why did Marcus Aurelius study philosophy? What were Seneca or Confucius or Buddha trying to achieve as they pored over their books or sat deeply in thought? What have archery masters and Olympic boxing instructors and generals tried to instill in their ...

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00:03:13

The Kind of Politics You Should Study

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/30

Following today’s politics is easy. You turn on the news and a bunch of pretty people tell you that your side is good and the other side is irredeemably evil. You pull up social media and you get a bunch of rage profiteers telling you what to be outrage...

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00:02:46

Just Don’t Make Things Worse

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/27

At the beginning of The Odyssey, Zeus utters a famous lament that must, one imagines, be shared by all gods and parents and presidents alike:This is absurdThat mortals blame the gods! They saywe cause suffering but they themselvesIncrease it by folly.At...

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00:03:40

Planting Trees In Shade We’ll Never Know

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/26

Late last year, a man named Ken Watson died at age 87, but before he did, he made sure to gift wrap fourteen presents for his two year old neighbor. He’d always told her that he’d live to be 100, and when that looked like it wasn’t going to happen, he ...

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00:03:41

Put Everything In the Calm and Mild Light

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/25

You know sometimes you hear a quote or an aphorism and you think, That’s it. That’s me. That’s my philosophy for life. Well it turns out that is a pretty common and timeless thing. At the very least, we know it goes back to the time of George Washington...

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00:04:13

You Must Tame Your Temper

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/24

You try to turn on your television, only to find that the batteries in the remote are dead and no one bothered to replace them. Your computer freezes in the middle of finishing something important and you lose hours of work. You’re running late for your...

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