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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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00:02:09

Stop Wasting Time on Trivialities

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/31

In his twenty-third letter to Lucilius, Seneca opens with some meta snark that is relatable to anyone who has ever been trapped in a banal conversation at a boring cocktail party. “You were probably thinking I was going to open this letter with idle chi...

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00:04:13

The Best Technology Ever Invented

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/30

There have been all sorts of wonderful technological innovations since Marcus Aurelius’s time, particularly in the domain of writing. We got the printing press. We got typewriters. We got ballpoint pens and erasers and whiteout. We got computers and sma...

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00:02:22

It’s OK To Cry

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/29

We know that Marcus Aurelius cried when he was told that his favorite tutor passed away. We know that he cried that day in court, when he was overseeing a case and the attorney mentioned the countless souls who perished in the plague that had ravaged Ro...

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00:03:35

What Do You Have To Draw On?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/28

For most of us, things are pretty good right now. The economy is booming. Our jobs or our personal lives are going well. Most of the doomsday predictions from critics and watchdogs have turned out to be overwrought or even wrong...so far. The world is m...

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00:02:41

Things Don’t Make The Man

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/27

It’s very easy to associate our possessions and our positions with our identity. There’s even an expression to that effect: The clothes make the man. When we have a powerful job, we feel powerful. When the market is hot, we feel like we have a knack for...

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00:02:20

It’s Not As Unfortunate As It Seems

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/24

Things we didn’t want to happen happen to all of us. A business deal falls through. A grade comes back that we didn’t expect. A person we care about leaves us. Our instinct is to call these events unfortunate.Which makes sense. It’s fortunate when you g...

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00:02:20

The Road To Ladies and Gentlemen Again

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/23

Two years ago, the world lost a great scholar and Stoic philosopher, Peter Lawler. Peter, a longtime writer for National Review and political science professor at Berry College, was the kind of person interested in those seemingly archaic notions of hon...

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00:03:15

You’ll Be Happier If You’re Realistic

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/22

We tell ourselves that if we just get paid more or get promoted, we’ll stop being so miserable at work. Or we dream for months in advance about some vacation to paradise, only to find, once we arrive, that the hotel was not quite as glamorous as the pho...

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00:02:24

Eat And Be Merry

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/21

A few years ago a study by Brad Bushman at Ohio State University found a link between low blood sugar and arguments between spouses. It pretty much confirms the experiences of anyone who has ever been in a relationship and found themselves fighting righ...

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00:02:42

Make It Happen. Whatever It Takes.

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/20

On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. Her solo exploits are well known. Less so is that Earhart had already made the same flight less than five years prior. Unable to make a living as a female pilot,...

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00:02:49

Don’t Let Yourself Be Rushed

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/17

Robert Caro is getting old and people are getting worried. He’s now 83 and each day that passes makes it increasingly unlikely that he’ll ever finish his epic (and must-read) series on Lyndon Johnson. He’s only made it up the the beginning of the Vietna...

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00:02:13

Find The Space

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/16

Think about the last time that someone made you upset. What did they say? What did they do? Now think back: How did you react? What did you say? What did you feel?Now think about the situation another way: If, when that provocation came, you had given y...

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00:03:52

How To Overcome Selfishness

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/15

Bertrand Russell was no fan of the Stoics. He thought they were cold, hated riches and passion. He thought Seneca and Marcus were hypocrites. But then again he himself was a rather big hypocrite—having had his share of affairs and embarrassing scandals....

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00:03:41

The Only Measure of Success

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/14

There’s plenty written about people pushing through failure, pulling themselves out of the depths of despair, rising above against all odds. There are countless inspiring stories of the struggling artist, living in debt and obscurity for years—a lifetim...

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00:03:01

Look For Teachable Moments

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/13

On the eve of the 2008 election, the journalist Joe Klein asked Barack Obama how he’d made his decision to respond to the brewing scandal about Obama’s pastor, Jeremiah Wright, having made controversial statements about the government and terrorist atta...

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00:02:39

If It’s Right, It’s Right For You

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/10

Sometimes we get asked or tasked with doing stuff in life we’d rather not have to do. Maybe that’s working a less than glamorous job when we’re young. Maybe that’s filling a role in your family that diverges from traditional gender roles. Maybe that’s t...

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00:02:38

You Decide The End of The Story

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/09

When James Stockdale was shot down in Vietnam, he was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese. He spent seven years being tortured and subjected to unimaginable loneliness and terror. He had little choice over the fact that he was shot down, or that he w...

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00:03:05

The First and Most Important Victory

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/08

It’s easy to look at people who are calm and self-disciplined and assume that their disposition comes naturally to them, or that it is somehow divinely inspired. These people, they simply don’t have to struggle with the temptations or the frustrations t...

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00:02:19

Who To Be Friends With?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/07

Of the Stoics, Seneca seems like the one who had the most fun. He’s the one who it’s easiest to picture spending time with friends or mingling at a dinner party (in fact, he was known for his legendary parties with hundreds of guests). Whereas almost al...

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00:02:06

Don’t Sell Out

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/05/06

In his Discourses, Epictetus asks a probing question: “Your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?”The answer, too often, is “for pennies on the d...

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