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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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00:02:20

The Great Equalizer

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/10

The author Michael Malice has a running gag: whenever a celebrity dies he posts a meme that says RIP but is a photo of a similar looking but a very different (and very alive) celebrity. It’s partly a commentary on how easily fake news spreads but it’s a...

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00:02:38

If It’s Not Simple, It’s Bullshit

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/09

There’s not much in Stoicism that’s particularly groundbreaking: Focus on what you can control. Be a good person. Manage your emotions. A lot of the famous Stoic quotes are pretty basic too: Epictetus: “It’s not things that upset us, it’s our judgement ...

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00:03:12

Find A Point!

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/08

Peter Barton’s beautiful memoir, Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived, takes readers along a man’s search for meaning when he’s forced to confront mortality. Struggling for a reason to persist amid a terminal diagnosis, his wife, Laura, orders Peter t...

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00:03:01

The Habit You Must Start This Year

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/07

Why does Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations speak to us so? The answer, ironically, is that because the author had zero intention of doing so—in fact, he probably would have been mortified to know how well the book has been received...because it meant the ex...

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00:03:20

The One Thing You Must Avoid

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/04

Imagine this. You’ve worked for years on this novel—one that is indisputably the best thing you’ve ever done. You manage to get a publisher to buy it. You start to get rave reviews. You sell out your first printing. Then suddenly, all the momentum evapo...

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00:03:16

Do The Little Thing, It’s All The Matters

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/03

In The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Tereza, as the Prague Spring happens and the Soviets begin a military occupation, takes the time to rescue a crow that was hurt on the side of the road. Yet when dissidents come and ask Tomas, her husband, to sign a...

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00:03:07

It’s Not How Long You Live, It’s How You Live

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/02

In late December, Richard Overton passed away at the ripe old age of 112 and 230 days. When he was born, Theodore Roosevelt was President of the United States, and the 13th Amendment, which ended slavery in America, was only a few decades old (for contr...

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00:04:51

Keep These Thoughts At Hand, Everyday

The Daily Stoic ·

2019/01/01

The Stoics were all about routine and concentration. Epictetus said that philosophy was something that should be kept at hand every day and night. Indeed, his book Enchiridion, actually means “small thing in hand,” or handbook. Seneca, for his part, tal...

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00:03:10

What We Do In Life Does Not Echo In Eternity

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/31

In the movie Gladiator, Maximus, the protege of Marcus Aurelius, says famously, “What we do in life, echoes in eternity.” It’s a powerful, inspiring line, (also tattooed on Lebron James’s arm) one the average viewer might assume that Marcus Aurelius agr...

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00:04:47

Don’t Wait. Get Started. Now.

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/28

This is that weird time of year where we start to think about how we want the following year to go. We call them “resolutions” and they are the promises we make to ourselves about what we’re going to do in the next twelve months. The habits we’re going ...

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00:02:39

Everything Is Breaking Down

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/27

Nearly two thousand years before Rudolph Clausius and Lord Kelvin first expressed the second law of thermodynamics (although there is debate on whether or not the French physicist Sadi Carnot discovered it earlier), Marcus Aurelius was musing on it. “Be...

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00:04:51

Why You Need To Understand Power

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/26

The actor Josh Peck recently had Robert Greene on his podcast to discuss the book, The Laws of Human Nature. It’s a fascinating interview, but one of the most revealing parts is when Josh asks Robert about how Robert squares his interest in Stoicism wit...

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00:05:26

Today Is A Very Special Day

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/25

On December 25th, people all over the world celebrate Christmas, a holiday which marks the birth of Jesus Christ, one of the greatest philosophers who ever lived. This was a man who lived two thousand years ago, taught timeless lessons about kindness, m...

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00:02:40

You Make Your Own Good Fortune

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/24

We can all remember times when it felt like everything was going our way. We were getting the breaks we wanted and opportunities came easy. It was the opposite of Murphy’s Law: What could go right, did.Perhaps we remember a time when we were younger, wh...

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00:04:05

Life Comes At You Fast Pt II

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/21

Just two and a half years ago, General Michael Flynn stood on the stage at the Republican National Convention and led some 20,000 people (and a good many more at home) in an impromptu chant of “Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!” about his enemy Hillary Clinton....

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00:03:29

How To Be The MVP

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/19

Yet again, Nick Foles has been called up to start at quarterback for the Eagles. After spending another heartbreaking season on the bench behind first round draft pick and star of the future, Carson Wentz—this time despite having won the Superbowl MVP (...

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00:04:03

14 Day Stoic Challenge: New Year, New You

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/18

We all know someone who constantly puts stuff off. Who loves to plan improvements for their health, their finances, their work, their friendships, their relationships. Plan after plan after plan. There is seemingly no end to them.We know these people be...

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00:02:38

Here Are Signs You’re Making Progress

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/17

Ok, you’ve been doing your reading and your journaling. You’re trying to be conscious of your thoughts and your actions. In short, you’re putting in the work. The question is, how do you know if it’s working? The journey to becoming a “sage” is one that...

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00:02:15

You Do You. Whether They Like it Or Not.

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/14

Think of all the people throughout history who were wrongly condemned and criticized by the mob. From the Civil Rights Activists to Galileo to ordinary people whose lifestyles were hypocritically condemned as perverted or a violation of God’s law. Think...

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00:02:52

You Don’t Get To Be Apolitical

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/13

There is a common complaint drifting through the culture these days: Why did you have to bring politics into things? Can’t she or he just sing/dance/dribble/write/paint? I was a fan until you said ___________. First off, how fragile are your views that ...

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