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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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00:03:37

How Do You Fill The Void?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/02/07

Seneca wrote constantly about time. One of his most compelling observations was about how people are protective of their money, their property, their possessions, yet careless with the one thing they can’t get back. “It’s not that we have a short time t...

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00:03:21

Avoid Owing (and Being Owned)

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/02/06

Seneca was a very rich man. He accumulated that fortune largely due to his service to Nero’s corrupt and broken regime, and then he put that money to work in Rome’s British colonies. In fact, he made so many enormous loans to colonists in Britain, that ...

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00:03:48

When You Should Give Up

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/02/05

No one would ever call Winston Churchill a quitter. His whole reputation is built on his instinct to fight. He was the lone objector when appeasement toward Hitler reigned as policy in the 1930s. He was the one strong enough to inspire the British peopl...

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00:02:58

All This In A Nutshell

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/02/04

Near the end of the Eisenhower Administration, the speechwriter James C. Humes was asked to help the president write a short address. After submitting a draft, Humes was called to Eisenhower’s office to discuss. As soon as he stepped into the room, he c...

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00:03:28

Out of Many, One

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/02/01

The motto of the United States—seen imprinted on its currency and its buildings—is e pluribus unum: “Out of many, one.”It happens that this is also more or less the aim of Stoicism too, to take the many parts of a person and turn them into a unified, co...

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00:03:34

Success or Failure—Neither Reflect On You

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/31

Just a few weeks ago, the writer Austin Murphy wrote an insightful, revealing article for The Atlantic that personalized the changing nature of the economic and technological landscape in the 21st century western world. Murphy is one of the most success...

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00:02:37

When Something Breaks

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/30

If a close friend had their home broken into, you’d comfort them and tell them that it was only stuff that had been stolen. If your child broke their favorite toy, you’d tell them that these things happen and try to get them to play with something else....

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00:03:24

Closing Your Eyes Is Not An Excuse

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/29

In Richard III, Shakespeare has a scene where Brackenbury is handed orders from Richard by two men who clearly plan to murder the King’s brother. His response echos down through the ages as an example of willful and cowardly ignorance. As he replies aft...

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00:02:21

The One (or Two) Words To Live By

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/28

Confucius was once asked by a student if there was a single word to to live by, a word that would always provide guidance and truth. He thought about it for a minute and replied with the word chu, which translates roughly into “forbearance.”This is inte...

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00:02:24

How To Make Better Decisions in Life

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/25

Believe it or not, there’s a pretty magical way to start making better decisions. It’s a secret that will also make you feel better, look better, and live better. You’ll live longer, think more clearly, and do less that you regret. What is it?Stop drink...

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00:03:22

Don't Limit Yourself

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/24

Epicurus’s dictum was that “One sage is no wiser than another.” Clearly, Seneca agreed with this idea because he loved quoting Epicurus, even though he belonged to a rival school. His famous line was that he’d quote even a bad author if the line was goo...

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00:02:48

If You Were Tested, Would You Pass?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/23

Perhaps you remember the 90s hit by the band The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, “The Impression That I Get.” You know, the ‘neeeeevvvvvvveeeerrrrrr had to knock on wood’ song? If you haven’t listened to it in a while, you should, because it holds up surprisin...

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00:03:00

We Are What We Think About

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/22

Ok, so it’s worth saying bluntly to any of the nice people out there who might believe in it: The Law of Attraction is complete horseshit. If you need proof, here’s a funny example: In 2015, the author of The Secret had to reduce the price of her home i...

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00:05:35

What Other People Get Away With Is Not An Excuse

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/21

Let us stipulate first that Serena Williams is an extremely talented tennis player and an honest and ethical person. Let us also stipulate that she has been unfairly treated by chair and line umpires, not just when she was an up-and-comer, but also, and...

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00:02:36

We Must Live By This Rule

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/18

Zigong once asked Confucius: “Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one’s life?” His reply: “Is not RECIPROCITY such a word?”Thus we have, by yet another source, another formulation of the Golden Rule. Matthew 7:12, for instanc...

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00:02:52

When Are You Going To Be Free?

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/17

Most of us tell ourselves that we’re putting up with ill-treatment or keeping our mouths shut about our beliefs because we’re working on something big. We tell ourselves that we’re slogging away in this industry or that industry not because we’re big su...

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00:02:22

How To Respond To Crazy People

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/16

One suspects Marcus Aurelius was referring to a particularly frustrating person, some opponent who just would not, or could not, get the message, when he wrote:“You can hold your breath until you’re blue in the face and they’ll just go on doing it.” The...

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00:02:10

Don’t Be Distracted By Darkness

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/15

There’s no question that depressing things happen in this world. They always have and always will. People lie, cheat, steal. Envy, avarice, selfishness—it’s all out there. And it’s hard to miss. It’s easy to despair about this. What do we do? Must it be...

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00:03:02

The Civil War Inside Each One Of Us

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/14

Martin Luther King Jr. was fond of using the American Civil War as a metaphor, not just to explain the divisive political landscape, but the divide within each person. Just as there was a North and South in America (Anti-slavery and Pro-Slavery), there ...

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00:03:10

This Is What Karma Looks Like

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/11

There is a simple proposition at the heart of classical Christianity: if you are a good person and do good works on Earth, when you die you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven and know the full bounty of God’s unending love. But if you are a bad person on ...

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