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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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00:02:43

Don’t Let Your Virtues Become This Vice

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/12

So we’ve begun to get serious about our training, both physical and philosophical. Before, we never read, and now we do. Before, we were lazy and slothful, and now we’re regularly going to the gym. Before, we would eat everything we felt like eating—too...

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00:03:43

Be Good To Each Other

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/11

“Man’s inhumanity to manMakes countless thousands mourn.”It is a verse from the poet Robert Burns. It was a favorite of Ulysses S. Grant as well as Winston Churchill, two men who witnessed the absolute worst of what people can do to each other. The line...

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00:03:37

We Aren’t Rational, We Become Rational

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/10

Most of us don’t think of ourselves as irrational. We don’t think we’re reactive creatures. We presume that we’re in control of our emotions, not the other way around. Other people are irrational of course, but what we feel is what reality is. Robert Gr...

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00:02:33

This Is How They Treat You After You’re Gone

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/07

Da Vinci painted his brilliant fresco, The Last Supper, and how did they respond? They nagged at him for taking too long. Then, after he finished, they cut a giant hole in the bottom for a door. Marcus slaved away on his private Meditations, a work of i...

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00:03:22

What Would You Do?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/06

News reports re-surfaced earlier this month that the teenaged son of Jeff Flake, the Republican Senator, had made a number of homophobic and racist comments on his Twitter account. When confronted with the remarks, the senator immediately and directly a...

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00:03:32

The Powerful Are Not Free

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/05

It’s funny that we spend so much time being jealous of people whose lives we do not even begin to understand. People look at the famous and the powerful and wish they could have what they have. As if those bounties did not come at very high costs!Ernest...

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00:02:16

It’s All In How You See It

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/12/03

Seneca said that the growth of anything is a long process, but its undoing can be rapid, even instant. Jordan Harbinger built his career for 11 years. With over 4 million monthly downloads, he had one of the most successful podcasts in the world. But th...

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00:03:38

These Are Life Choices You Control

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/30

If you haven’t heard of George Raveling, you should. This a guy that Michael Jordan addresses as “coach” even though Raveling never coached the Bulls or the Tar Heels. He’s also been retired from coaching for more than two decades. In fact, most people ...

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00:03:47

It’s Always Been This Way, Always Will Be

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/29

We like to think that we’re so advanced. That things have changed so radically since the ancient days of tyrants and barbarism. But have they? Here’s a photo of Jamal Khashoggi's son, whose father was brutally executed mere days before, being forced to ...

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00:04:45

Power and Success Can Make You Better

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/28

Lord Acton’s line is so famous and so undeniably true that most people don’t even know that it’s a quote from a real person: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It's been proven time and time again in history. When people get power, i...

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00:06:21

Making A Difference IS Up To You

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/27

Look, there’s no way around it: Part of Stoicism is accepting that a lot of what happens in the world is outside our control. Some people have taken this to mean that the Stoics were resigned to their fate—that they were willing to tolerate the status q...

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00:04:17

What Is Sympatheia? (And Why It’s So Damn Important)

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/26

In Book Six of Meditations, Marcus gives himself (and us) a command to keep an important idea in mind. “Meditate often,” he writes, “on the interconnectedness and mutual interdependence of all things in the universe.” He is speaking of the Stoic concept...

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00:03:30

Do Not Avoid This Thought

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/23

In his new book, The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene concludes his final chapter with this meditation on mortality:“Many of us spend our lives avoiding the thought of death. Instead the inevitability of death should be continually on our minds. Unde...

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00:03:31

What Marcus Learned From Antoninus

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/22

Where did Marcus learn to be Marcus? Ernest Renan writes that Marcus was very much a product of his training and his tutors. But more than his teachers and even his own parents, “Marcus had a single master whom he revered above them all, and that was An...

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00:03:12

Don’t Get Upset By What You Disagree With

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/21

The response to the Daily Stoic emails can be a fascinating peek into human psychology. One email, because it makes a fairly objective point about Donald Trump’s temperament, produces a record number of unsubscribes. Another, because it mentions Winston...

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00:03:05

Write And Think Clearly

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/20

In his short new edition of How To Be Free, A.A Long observes the relative ease he had translating Epictetus from ancient Greek into English. This is because, he says, Epictetus’s “conversational manner and short sentences suit our modern idiom.” Accord...

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00:02:39

The Best Way To Fight Evil

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/19

Tolstoy believed his most essential work was not his novels but his daily read, A Calendar of Wisdom. Like in The Daily Stoic, each day in that book is a meditation on a theme of ancient wisdom which provides insights for self-improvement. In a June ent...

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00:04:35

The Dance We Each Will Dance

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/16

It would be hard to find a deeper, darker yet more philosophically interesting short film than the “Silly Symphony” that Walt Disney produced in 1929. And while many Disney franchises were built around classic stories and fables, one might have trouble ...

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00:02:47

The Perils of ‘Comfort Inflation’

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/15

It’s so easy to take progress and luxury for granted. Warren Buffet has talked about how somebody today--with the comforts of heating and air conditioning--has what a 15th century king could have only dreamed of: being cool in the summer and warm in the...

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00:04:27

The Most Important Ritual You Can Practice This Year

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/14

Why did Marcus Aurelius spend those precious hours in his tent, writing by the lamplight, even on the nights and mornings he strained under the burdens of his war-time duties? It wasn’t for our benefit. No, he never expected Meditations would see an aud...

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