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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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00:03:11

What To Learn From History

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/23

When one looks at the dark moments of history, it’s hard not to be a little afraid. Look at what people have done to each other—look at how bad things have gotten. In Seneca’s time, many horrific acts were not only common but commonly accepted. Like dec...

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00:02:55

Study The Real Secret of Greatness

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/20

When we think of greatness, we think of success. We think of strength. We think of influence. We think of the man or woman exerting their will over the universe, or dominating on the athletic field, or dazzling us with their creative brilliance. We thin...

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00:02:45

Don’t Worry About Them, Worry About Yourself

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/19

We spend a lot of time worried about what other people are going to do. Will that colleague muscle you out of the way for the promotion? Will another coffee shop or yoga studio or accountant open up on the block and steal your customers? Is so-and-so ou...

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00:02:59

Why Statues Matter

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/18

Nobody cared more about statues than the Greeks and the Romans. In fact, the only reason we know what many of the Stoics looked like is because they were preserved in marble by sculptors many thousands of years ago. The Stoics knew that statues were imp...

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00:02:41

Don’t Take Control, Take Charge

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/17

In her page-a-day book Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much, the writer Anne Willson Schaef makes a distinction that the Stoics would have certainly agreed with—there is a difference, she writes, between trying to control everything in your life and ta...

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00:03:53

You Must Surrender

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/16

One way to read The Odyssey is that it’s a story of human perseverance. Odysseus is cunning and determined, he’s willing to do everything and anything to get back to Ithaca...and eventually, because of that, he finally does. That’s certainly the interpr...

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00:03:50

Avoid Special Treatment Like The Plague

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/13

During the American Revolution—as in any war—the British quite rightly targeted the estates and the landholdings of the leadership on the American side. Because to them, these men weren’t founders—they were instigators. At one point in the war, George W...

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00:03:24

The Real Terrible Thing

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/12

Epictetus could not have summed up Stoicism better than when he said: “It’s not things that upset us, but our judgement about things.” What he meant was that the world is neither positive or negative, it is simply objectively indifferent. A hurricane is...

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00:02:33

It’s Okay To Want, But Not To Need

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/11

This was a big argument amongst the early Stoics: What was necessary for the good life? What was actually important to the wise man? They came up with a pretty straightforward but almost impossible to obtain answer: All the wise man should care about is...

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00:02:28

A Test of Your Worth

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/10

Here’s a question to ask yourself about your work and your life: Do you create value for society or do you extract it? Are you a giver or a taker? Do you make the world better with your choices and actions and lifestyle?When the Stoics talk about sympat...

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00:03:26

Treat People As You Would Be Treated

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/09

It must be said that the Stoics were cowardly when it came to slavery. Marcus Aurelius, who believed that we were all part of a common whole, that we were all equal before life and death, who so admired a former slave like Epictetus, who writes at one p...

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00:02:38

We Admire The Struggle

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/06

It was not lost even on the Stoics that some parts of this philosophy come more naturally to some people than others. Some folks just seem chill by default. Some are so-called “old souls” who have wisdom and perspective, almost from birth. Others were n...

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00:02:58

If You Need A Friend…

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/05

In her beautiful book about the Los Angeles Public Library fire, Susan Orlean captures the magic of what libraries can offer. She describes walking through the empty library in Downtown LA, not a soul in sight, and feeling connected to all the different...

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00:03:14

Fulfilling Your Destiny Will Not Be Easy

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/04

It’s pretty incredible to think that Hadrian was able to see the potential in Marcus Aurelius. Hadrian somehow, even though Marcus was just a boy, could tell that this kid had something. That he might be able to withstand the stress and temptation and p...

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00:03:17

The Most Powerful (and Underrated) Force in The World

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/03

Marcus Aurelius, on nearly a dozen occasions in Meditations, speaks of reaching or achieving “stillness.” Most beautifully, he writes of trying to be “like the rock that the waves keep crashing over,” the one that “stands unmoved and the raging of the s...

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00:04:19

What is Required of You

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/09/02

Marcus Aurelius was an incredibly lucky man. He was born a Roman and he was born a man in a time where to be anything other than a man or a Roman citizen was a position of extreme powerlessness. He was also born to a wealthy family who provided him the ...

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00:03:10

Heaven Beside You…Hell Within

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/08/30

It’s late summer now and you might be thinking it’s time to squeeze in a last minute vacation. Or maybe you’ve been looking forward to a long-planned one to some distant location. This is just what I need, you’re thinking. I can’t wait to get out there ...

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00:02:51

Where is The Courage?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/08/29

These are times of increasing political extremism. They are also times of corruption and rising inequality. Enormous, alarming trends are sweeping through culture, government, and the economy. In some sense this is new, but in other ways it’s a story as...

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00:02:56

It’s Easy To be Sad

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/08/28

In his new book, Comedy Sex God (as well as on his wonderful podcast and on his HBO show) the comedian Pete Holmes talks about the aftermath of the dissolution of his marriage. After his wife cheated on him and their subsequent divorce, he was hit with ...

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00:03:18

Forgiveness Isn’t Easy, But It’s Essential

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/08/27

The great C.S Lewis observed that we all find forgiveness to be a lovely idea...right up until we have someone to forgive. It’s true. Forgiveness is one of those virtues that’s easy to talk about, but incredibly hard to practice. Particularly when we ar...

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