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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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00:03:49

You Have To Take Care of Yourself

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/28

King George IV was a notorious glutton. His breakfast supposedly consisted of two pigeons, three steaks, a near full bottle of wine, and a glass of brandy. In time, he grew so fat he could no longer sleep laying down, or the weight of his own chest migh...

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00:04:17

Justice Doesn't Have To Be Angry

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/27

When we hear about an athlete who was doubted and kicked around, or an entrepreneur who ends up buying the previously dominant company that once spurned them, we assume anger must have been the fuel that powered their comeback. When we hear about someon...

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00:02:34

What Do You Live By?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/26

William Alexander Percy, the uncle of the great writer Walker Percy, and one of the last Southern Stoics, was a famous host. His mansion in Greenville, Mississippi welcomed many guests, including Robert Wright, Langston Hughes, and William Faulkner. He ...

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00:03:04

Never Attribute To Malice…

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/25

People do a lot of things that feel mean. That frustrate us. That cause problems for us. That make the world a worse place. They vote for bad politicians. They say offensive things. They make messes. They screw stuff up.Naturally, our first instinct is ...

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00:03:33

Break Out and Break Free

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/24

We live in the freest time in the freest places in the history of the world. Yet many of us feel far from free. We are slaves to vices and devices, to our schedules and our poor self-talk. We’re reactive. We look at the world through the lens of other p...

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00:02:22

It’s About The Paring Down

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/21

Really what the Stoics were trying to do is pare down what they had to worry about. That’s why Epictetus said our first job was just to determine what was in our control and what isn’t—because that eliminates an enormous chunk of concern from our concer...

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00:02:07

Practice These Virtues

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/20

Virtue is one of those words that contains multitudes. If you think about it, being virtuous is not doing one thing all the time, or even lots of things all at once. It’s doing all the right things—the important things—in those moments when they matter ...

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00:03:41

You Must Think It

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/19

In Richard III and in Othello, Shakespeare has two different characters utter the same line. Both Iago and a nameless orphan say, “I cannot think it.”In both cases, the news they are faced with—the conclusion they are being asked to accept—is simply too...

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00:02:00

Do You Want To Be Less Angry?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/18

The best way to make sure you are always offended and upset is to be on the lookout for things to be offended by and upset about. The sharper your ears and eyes, the larger your dragnet for information, the more likely you are to find something that pis...

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00:04:05

Tell The Truth, Even If They Hate You For It

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/17

There is a certain archetype that is as old as literature and history themselves. One of the first times we see it in the West is with Cassandra in the Greek tragedies. She has the power to see into the future (she prophesied the fall of Troy and the mu...

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00:03:39

It’s OK To Struggle

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/14

Nietzsche’s classic line was “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.” It’s a nice sentiment, but is it true? Don’t people who were born with advantages do better in life? Isn’t it better not to suffer setbacks? Why would someone want to experience disa...

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00:02:23

It Doesn’t Matter What You Do, It Matters How You Do It

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/13

The occupations of the three most well-known Stoics could not be more different. Seneca was a playwright, a wealthy landowner, and a political advisor. Epictetus was a former slave who became a philosophy teacher. Marcus Aurelius would have loved to be ...

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00:03:23

Never Abandon Your Ideals

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/12

Anne Frank would have celebrated her 90th birthday today. Although her life was cut tragically short, so much of her preternatural wisdom survives to us thanks to her famous, existentially essential diary. In it, we are reminded of the humanity of every...

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00:02:37

Why It’s Important To Be Healthy

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/11

It wouldn’t seem like eating well would be an important part of the philosopher’s job, but indeed it is. Antoninus Pius, the adopted stepfather of Marcus Aurelius and one of the quietly great Roman Emperors, kept a simple diet so he could work from dawn...

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00:02:43

How To Think About Obstacles

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/10

We can think of hardship many ways: As failure. As unfairness. As the end of the conversation. Clearly, this was not meant to be, we can say. They don’t want me to succeed, so what’s the point of trying?Or, we can choose—we can train ourselves—to see it...

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00:03:30

When You Need Help...

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/07

Maybe you’re having a difficult time in your relationship. Or work has worn you down. Maybe things have gone exceedingly well in your business and now you’re dealing with opportunities you never thought possible. Or you’re trying to figure out what to d...

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00:02:49

What The Simple Life Is

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/06

Seneca wasn’t fond of philosophers you could recognize. Not by their fame, but by their uniform. In his time, just as it is in ours, there was a type of person who, in reading about the Diogenes types or the tough Stoic types, thought that philosophy re...

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00:03:29

The Earth Is Big And Has Room For Everyone

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/05

There is a line in the Odyssey (most recently translated by Seneca’s wonderful biographer, Emily Wilson). Odysseus, still early on in his journey home, is speaking with King Alcinous, and telling him of his deeds in the Trojan war. Alcinous remarks that...

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00:03:14

Good Stuff Comes Out Of Bad Circumstances

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/04

If Marcus Aurelius had his choice, he probably never would have been emperor. If he could have chosen how his reign would go, he probably wouldn’t have spent it at war, far from home, either. But that was how life went. Those were the cards he was dealt...

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00:02:44

An Easy Source of Encouragement

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/06/03

Why did Marcus Aurelius write his Meditations? It wasn’t for an audience. It wasn’t simply to practice his Greek or his rhetorical abilities—he was already good at all those things. The book lacks an author’s note and he never seemed to have told anyone...

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