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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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00:02:32

Virtue Is Contagious (and Has Obligations)

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/14

The line from Confucius was that “Virtue is never solitary; it always has neighbors.” What he meant by that was that good behavior and good thinking is contagious. In a way, virtue is like the homeowner who moves into a rundown neighborhood and through ...

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00:03:08

It Comes For All, Young And Old

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/13

The New York Times Obituary section this past weekend featured a somberly diverse list of losses: William Jordan, the impressionist, was dead at 91. Erich Lessing, a photographer died at 95. Amanda Kyle Williams, the crime writer, at 61. Randy Weston, t...

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00:03:11

What Should Good People Do?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/12

Confucius, like Seneca, was an interesting hybrid of philosopher and politician. For instance, in addition to his teachings and writings, he pushed for “a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral ...

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00:03:05

The Ideal Weapon For Spiritual Combat

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/11

Michel Foucault has a fascinating essay on journaling entitled “Self-Writing.” In it, he describes journaling as a “weapon in spiritual combat,” which is a brilliant phrase. That might seem to be overstating it, after all, is it really such a big deal t...

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00:03:06

You Are Worth Fighting For

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/10

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day. Given that a number of prominent Stoics committed suicide, and that suicide was described by Epictetus as the “open door” it might seem like a strange theme to write about here today. But the truth is the Stoic...

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00:02:33

Study The Lives of The Greats

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/07

It would be this Sunday that in the year 1813, General William Henry Harrison sent three volumes of an ancient book to his 15 year old son, John. The book was Plutarch's Lives, long a favorite of successful men and women throughout history. Indeed, the ...

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00:02:32

The Only Kind Of Comparison Worth Doing

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/06

It is said that comparison is the thief of joy and is, therefore, mostly to be avoided. This is true. You’re on your own journey with your own unique circumstances. Using what other people have or what they’ve done as a guiding light to chart your progr...

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00:03:35

How Are You Still Not Doing This?

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/05

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria wrote in Vita Antonii that the reason he did his journaling--his confessing, as the genre was called by the Christians--was that it was a safeguard against sinning. By observing and then writing about his own behavior, he ...

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00:02:41

This Message Is Waiting For You

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/04

On April 24th 1924, the pioneer writer Laura Ingalls Wilder got a note that he mother, aged 84, had died. It was a sad day, particularly since it had been so many years since she had been able to see or spend time with the woman who had raised and loved...

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00:02:19

In This Way You Are Unstoppable

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/09/03

Acceptance? Resignation? That’s not me, we say, when we hear the Stoics preach those concepts. I never give up. I’m a fighter. Ok. If you say so. But there’s a difference between being a fighter and a doer. Remember, one of the outcomes of “figh...

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00:03:00

Your Heart Shouldn’t Be Getting Harder As You Go

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/31

The old joke--which dates back to the 1870s--is that if you’re not a liberal when you’re young you have no heart, but if you’re still a liberal when you’re older, you have no brain. Now we can put any partisan beliefs aside and see how this is at least ...

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00:02:19

This Is The Only Thing That Matters in Life

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/30

In 1940, while he was struggling as an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Walker Percy wrote to his uncle and adopted father, William Alexander Percy, to give him the bad news about his grades. William Alexander, who i...

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00:02:54

Why You Do This Work

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/29

There is an element of this philosophy that is a lot of work. You do all this reading. You do your morning and evening journaling. Maybe you attend meetup groups or even have pursued an advanced degree. Maybe you’ve joined Daily Stoic Life and participa...

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00:03:13

There Is Always Something To Be Grateful For

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/28

One of the most stunning things about Anne Frank’s diary is how indefatigably happy it is. One might expect that her journal, which she kept from 1942 to 1944, as her family hid from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic, would be sullen and scared. Here she ...

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00:02:12

Why You’re The Luckiest Person In The World

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/27

“It’s unfortunate that this happened,” Marcus says in one of his imaginary dialogs. Then he corrects himself: “No. It’s fortunate that this has happened and I’ve remained unharmed by it--not shattered by the present or frightened of the future. It could...

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00:02:57

How To Make The World A Better Place

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/24

The line from George Bernard Shaw was that “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” He isn’t wrong. The reasonable man bends himself to the world, because he insists to himself that the world is this way for a reason. The unreasonable man does no...

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00:02:12

Here’s Why Worry Is Pointless

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/22

Humble people worry less than the arrogant. Why is that? Because they aren’t so conceited as to think they have any idea (or control over) what may or may not happen. The poet Rilke put it well: “Life is not even close to being as logically consistent a...

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00:02:31

Everything Hangs By A Thread

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/22

One of the most misleading things about our world today is the increased sense of comfort we feel. Yes, on average planes crash less. Yes, diseases have been cured. Yes, infant mortality rates have made progress. Yes, crime is down. But the slow and ste...

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00:01:51

You Always Have a Move to Make

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/17

Today you might find yourself dealing with something tough. Stuck in a new situation. Hit with a situation that’s been developing for some time, but only now is bringing you pain. In tight situations like these, you need energy, creativity and above all...

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00:02:37

Sometimes You Can’t Make It On Your Own

The Daily Stoic ·

2018/08/17

There’s no way around the fact that the Stoics talked about suicide. A lot. To the Stoics, suicide was famously the “open door”—the option available to anyone, at any moment. Cato, one of the most vaunted and towering Stoics, went through that door, gru...

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