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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

Be A User, Not A Loser

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/13

Dr. D.T. Suzuki, a 20th century Japanese author who was largely responsible for popularizing Buddhism, Zen, and Shin in the West, was once approached at the end of a dinner party. “How is it, Dr. Suzuki,” the woman asked, “we spend the entire evening as...

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00:01:45

You Become Like Your Friends

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/12

“Nature gave us friendship,” Cicero wrote, “as an aid to virtue, not as a companion to vice.”What he meant was that friends are supposed to make you better, not make you worse. Friends are supposed to reinforce your good habits, not encourage your bad o...

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00:02:01

Get Yourself Under Control

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/09

It was Heraclitus--a favorite of Marcus Aurelius--who said that “to be self-controlled is the greatest of excellence.” Isn’t that the truth? It’s why we admire athletes and Navy SEALS and the Civil Rights Activists of the 1950s and 1960s.To see someone ...

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00:03:09

We Have So Much In Common

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/08

In a very short period around 2003, the musician Rosanne Cash lost her sister, her step mother, her father , and her mother. It was a series of blows that rocked her, even as stoic and strong as she was. She would write later in her wonderful memoir, Co...

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00:02:57

Your Hunger For Money Is Starving You

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/07

William MacAskill is a fascinating guy. He is the youngest Associate Professor in Philosophy at the University of Oxford. He’s one of the founders of the Effective Altruism movement. He’s written a great book called Doing Good Better - Effective Altruis...

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00:03:44

Each Of Us Has A Duty

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/06

In one sense, it’s hard to argue with the statistics that any individual’s vote makes a difference. One person out of so many? When more than 50% of the population doesn’t even bother? In a country of gerrymandering and voter suppression? In the other, ...

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00:03:13

Let Us Argue With Reality No More

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/05

So much of what we do as a society could be described as arguing with reality. Turn on cable news and you’ll find talking heads screaming at their upset viewers about how whatever has happened as part of the story of the day is “Just not normal!” Look i...

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00:03:07

Don’t Borrow Suffering

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/02

Here’s a line from Seneca: “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Meaning, we spend so much time worried about how bad things are going to be, that we actually torture ourselves more than the thing we’re worried about ever could (that is, if i...

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00:02:22

Let It Go, You’re Plenty Guilty Yourself

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/11/01

Like you’ve never cut in line, on purpose or on accident. Like you’ve never done something selfish or spoken with an attitude. Like you’ve never been jealous or petty or mean. Of course you have. You’ve done all these things. We all have. Yet when other...

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00:03:20

Don't Be A Snowflake

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/31

A few years ago, conservative commentators in America began using a term for young college students--mostly liberal--who insisted on #noplatforming speakers they disagreed with: Snowflakes. It was said with both a sneer and well-meaning wisdom because t...

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00:02:56

Is Anxiety Playing Tricks On You?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/30

You’ll likely know Charlamagne Tha God as the host of the nationally revered radio show The Breakfast Club where provocative celebrity interviews help drive the daily national conversation about issues related to hip-hop, race, society, and politics. Le...

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00:03:13

The Present Is Pleasurable Enough

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/29

On one of his more arduous hunts, after days of patiently tracking (and weeks of planning before that), crawling through the dirt and enduring difficult conditions, Theodore Roosevelt finally got the bull caribou he had been chasing. It was a big animal...

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00:03:54

We Are So Soon Forgotten

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/26

A few miles outside Rome, along the still-smooth stone-paved Appian Way, is a tall brick tomb that is rumored to belong to Seneca. Unfortunately, no one is certain if this rumor has any truth to it. There is no sign that marks the tomb. There is no clea...

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00:02:53

Time Doesn’t Make Everything Better...It Just Makes...

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/25

When we get dumped or we fail or we lose someone, we often hear that “Time heals all wounds” or some such remark, all of it in consolation. Obviously this is meant well, but it’s also frustrating--if only because it’s trite...and way too simple. As Rilk...

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00:02:38

Be Severe Only With Yourself

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/24

One of the things that separates us from other people--indeed that has been responsible for our success--is our ability to be strict and self-disciplined. Where other people are fine making excuses or taking shortcuts, we are not. Where other people win...

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00:03:24

We All Have The Same Nature

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/23

Robert Greene’s five international bestsellers earned him descriptions like genius and master of human behavior. His newest book was just released. The Laws of Human Nature is the culmination of his life’s work to understand why. Why do humans behave th...

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00:02:54

We Take The Bitter To Get To The Sweets

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/22

“The hunter worthy of the name always willingly takes the bitter if by so doing he can get the sweet, and gladly balances failure and success, spurning the poorer souls who know neither.”Theodore Roosevelt was talking about the philosophy of hunting whe...

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00:03:14

How To Be A Winner and a Loser

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/19

Michael Lombardi is a former NFL coach, GM and front office strategist who is largely responsible for introducing Stoic philosophy to professional sports. In 2014, he read The Obstacle is the Way and spread it around the locker room of the New England P...

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00:03:05

Accepting The Little Facts of Life

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/18

In the late 1800s, Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Big Hole Basin in Montana. The trip did not get off to a good start. Upon getting off the train, and searching for a wagon to transport them, Roosevelt and his party immediately ran into the...

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00:03:38

Don’t Make This Mistake

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/17

There is a repeated pattern of failure in Marcus Aurelius’s life, and no matter how much we might admire him, it’s hard to deny it. His step brother, Lucius Verus, who he elevated to co-emperor, was a ne'er-do-well who never proved himself worthy of Mar...

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