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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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00:04:06

Are You A Coward? Or Are You Brave?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/16

Varlam Shalamov was a brilliant writer who was sentenced in 1937 to years of hard labor in a Soviet gulag. If that were not painful enough, though he was eventually freed, his writings were more or less lost to history until today—his book, Kolyma Tales...

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00:02:58

Why Ego Is Your Enemy

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/15

One of the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous defined ego as “a conscious separation from.” From what? From everything and everyone, including our own nature. When we are in the sway of ego, we are arrogant, selfish, shortsighted. We are mean, we are...

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00:02:14

Don’t Be All About Business

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/12

Is there anything sadder than a person whose work is their life? They neglect their family, they put in crazy hours, they have no interests, no hobbies outside what they do at the office. It’s bad enough to be stuck next to them at a party, but imagine ...

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00:02:37

Why Do You Care What They Think?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/11

There’s a moment that almost everyone remembers from their childhood. They have just received something they really liked--a new shirt, a new toy, a haircut they thought was cool--and showed up for school with it...only to be mercilessly teased and mock...

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00:03:29

What You Think You’re Lacking Is The Problem

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/10

George Ball, the diplomat and advisor to President Kennedy (one of who David Halberstam would call ‘the best and the brightest’), once observed about Lyndon Johnson that LBJ was hardly disadvantaged by his lack of an Ivy League education. Rather, he sai...

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00:04:57

Love Always

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/09

1981 was a tough year for tennis great Billie Jean King. That year, she sat down to write her memoir having endured serious betrayal on multiple fronts. One was emotional and financial: a woman she’d had an affair with attempted to extort her, creating ...

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00:02:56

Things Worse Than Dying

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/08

Death and dying are the worst parts of life, right? After all, they do end the whole thing. So while it does make sense, generally, to try to avoid dying, Seneca marvelled at the terrible things people do to stay alive--things much worse than death. We’...

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00:02:30

If Today Was Your Last Day

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/05

We put a lot of thought into making distinctions about what’s urgent and what’s not. We put a lot of effort into planning. We have our conservative calculations for retirement and our ambitious ones. We have a bucket list that includes the things we wan...

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00:03:20

We Pay The Iron Price

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/04

In Game of Thrones, the people of the Iron Islands believe they have been entitled by God to steal and seize whatever they like. Women, land, possessions, even the rightful kingdom of one’s own brother--all of this is capriciously taken by the ironborn ...

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00:02:48

Nothing Exempts You From Hard Work

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/03

It’s interesting, if you think about Greek and Roman mythology, that the Gods were so active and busy. Athena and Circe and Hermes all worked to help Odysseus. Apollo guided Achilles. Zeus and Jupiter were always getting involved in this squabble or tha...

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00:03:45

Nothing Can Touch The Soul

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/02

The anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun and the song it inspired, One by Metallica, tell the story of Joe Bonham, a soldier who has been grievously injured on the battlefield in World War I. Upon waking in the hospital, the soldier finds that he cannot wa...

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00:01:50

It’s Time To Get Up. It’s Time To Get Up

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/10/01

One of the best passages in all of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations is the opener to Book V. In it, Marcus has a dialog with himself as he struggles to get out of bed in the morning. It’s just marvelously relatable. Here we have an extraordinary man, some ...

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00:03:16

Another Reason To Journal

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/28

In Walter Isaacson’s wonderful new biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci’s notebooks. From his military sketches to his lesser known fables to self-portraits and scientific breakthroughs, ...

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00:04:17

Don’t Make This Mistake (Or Stop Before It’s Too Late)

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/27

Why are good people attracted to serving bad people or bad causes?Aristotle taught Alexander the Great. Seneca advised Nero. Da Vinci attached himself to Cesare Borgia. Mattis accepted a cabinet position from Trump. There are, of course, man...

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00:02:24

Love Not Hate

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/26

It’s easy to stir up resentment, harder to create common ground. It’s easy to point out what’s wrong, it’s much more difficult to come up with a solution. Our current political and social dialogue has taken the easy road, no question, which is why we’re...

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00:02:25

Make Sure You're Coming Home

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/21

All of us have day jobs. Even professional philosophers are still professors or authors, which means they have other responsibilities than just thinking and reading. That means that like the rest of us, they’ve got meetings to take and phone calls to ma...

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00:05:08

Different Folks Need Different Strokes

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/20

Confucius was once asked for advice by a student, and in replying essentially urged him to wait and be patient. Later he was asked for advice by another student, and advised that student to not be patient and to solve the problem immediately. An observ...

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00:03:22

What To Do When You’re Not Naturally Perfect

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/19

It was on this day in the year 86 AD, that Antoninus Pius, the man who would become best known as the stepfather of Marcus Aurelius, was born. Most people, even followers of Stoicism, don’t know much about Antoninus. This is sad because he was a truly g...

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00:03:04

Approach Your Troubles Like Doctor

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/18

It’s famously said that you should learn from the mistakes of others because you can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. In that way, the books we read and the information we digest gives us an advantage to those who choose to learn by painful...

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00:02:39

This Will Help You Get Rid Of Crazy Thoughts

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/17

In Aaron Thier’s novel The World Is A Narrow Bridge (the title is a proverb we have written about before), one of the main characters is a runner. His wife teases him for his dedication to this hobby, which he claims settles his mind and makes him feel ...

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