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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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00:03:13

Spare Time Is Not Enough Pt II

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/26

The great Athenian statesman Pericles once explained to his people that being a great naval power was not some hobby. It was the key to their survival. “Seamanship is an art,” he said, “just like anything else, and you cannot merely practice it ‘on the ...

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00:03:35

Good or Evil...The Choice Is Yours

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/25

The Nobel Prize-winning author John Steinbeck thought the tug between good and evil was a necessary contradiction of human nature. There is no better demonstration of his world view than East of Eden. As Steinbeck wrote to a friend, “I finished my book ...

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00:03:14

There’s No Excuse For Being Surprised

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/24

Fabius was one of Ancient Rome’s great generals, though he was not the bold, reckless type that usually gets all the attention in history books. No, he was the cautious type. He was strategic and reserved. He preferred to let enemies defeat themselves m...

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00:02:34

Haven’t You Done That Before?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/23

It is certainly true that people can do some awful things to each other. We hear of a trusted representative who is stealing from their clients. We hear of a man who has been leading a second life, even starting a second family. We hear of a woman who c...

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00:02:21

What Do You Look Like Angry?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/22

Getting angry is not a good look. We know this because we see how ugly other people look when they get mad. How childish they seem. How pathetic their gesticulations look, how badly they seem to need our attention. We see how much it undermines their po...

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00:03:05

You’re Not That Important

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/19

A few weeks ago, a horse at The Preakness threw its jockey right out of the gate and kept running. Like really kept running. It ran the whole race twice! For a few seconds there during its first go-round, it was a real contender in the race. It’s actual...

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00:03:07

This Is Universal

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/18

Traveling—that itch to get away, to hit the road, to see the world—feels like a distinctly modern craze. Yet it was common in Ancient Rome for people to escape the heat and the frenzy of the bustling city to get away for some time in the countryside. It...

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00:03:23

Are You Self-Aware?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/17

Evan Thomas, in his incisive and humanizing biography of Richard Nixon, asks a penetrating question: How many great men of history were truly self-aware? Nixon surely wasn’t. Bill Clinton, caught red-handed—or rather, blue-dressed—philandering in the Wh...

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00:02:20

Nothing Wrong With Nice Stuff

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/16

Seneca was a very rich man. He had nice stuff. Critics at the time, and ever since, have found this to be indisputable proof of his hypocrisy. How can a Stoic have expensive ivory tables? Isn’t it unphilosophical to have multiple houses? Or servants?In ...

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00:02:33

These Things Have No Power Over You

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/15

So much has happened in the past. We’ve messed up. We’ve been hurt. We’ve missed opportunities and we’ve embarrassed ourselves. So much can happen in the future, as well. Not only can all those same mistakes happen again, but we also have to contend wit...

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00:03:41

Does Greatness Require Ego?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/12

While we all hold up humility as an admirable trait, we’re not always sure it can get us to the goals we aspire to. We look at a Kanye West or a Donald Trump or a Steve Jobs and think: sure that person’s an egomaniac, but ego was clearly critical to the...

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00:03:44

We Must Increase What We Have Been Given

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/11

In the Book of Matthew, we are told of the parable of the talents. Three servants are left sums of money (talents) by their master. The first, who the master believed was most able, doubled his five talents into ten. The second was given two and used it...

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00:03:27

Assume Everyone Is Lying

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/10

You’ve probably caught yourself doing it. Life has been rough or depressing, but your social media feed looks awesome. Someone asks how much money you make or how sales on your project were, and you round up quite a bit. Or maybe you’re similarly genero...

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00:03:00

Pity The Ego

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/09

The Stoics were not unacquainted with awful people. They saw tyrants. They saw cheats. They saw toxic egomaniacs and insatiable ambitions. And what was their reaction to most of these people?Aside from a general wariness and a desire not to be corrupted...

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00:04:06

Just A Few Seconds Of Courage

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/08

In 2006, Benjamin Mee bought a zoo. Literally a zoo. It was broken down and in desperate need of a caring owner. Mee and his family were struggling too. Things hadn’t been going well for them either. But in one scene—immortalized by Matt Damon in the mo...

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00:02:57

Are You Ready To Be Challenged?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/05

It’s very easy to get comfortable. To build up your life exactly how you want it to be. Minimize inconveniences and hand off the stuff you don’t like to do. To find what you enjoy, where you enjoy it, and never leave. A velvet rut, is what it’s called. ...

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00:03:41

Freedom Isn't Free

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/04

The fact that America exists is the ultimate argument that Stoicism is not apathy and that philosophy is not mere theory. Because without Stoicism, it’s possible there would have been no revolution, no Constitution, no Bill of Rights and no Fourth of Ju...

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00:03:00

Do Less

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/03

Unlike so many of the other philosophical schools, the Stoics were doers. The Epicureans might have been content to play in their gardens and the Cynics might have believed that most of the obligations of society were a scam, but the Stoics were respons...

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00:03:38

Who The True Stoics Were

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/02

If you were to run down the list of the great Stoics of history, who would come to mind?Seneca. Marcus Aurelius. Epictetus. Maybe if you really knew your stuff, you’d mention Zeno or Cleanthes or Chrysippus. What do all those people have in common? They...

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00:03:15

Real Power Can’t Be Taken Away

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/07/01

Twice, Seneca was exiled. Twice, he basically lost everything. Money. Access. Influence. It all went away, like *that.* How did he handle it? The first time, not so well. We can read the thou-dost-protest-too-much letter he wrote to his mother...and we ...

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