Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)

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The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/10/05

A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relationship. By the time you put the phone down, you are responding to a conversation that has not happened.We live among events and our interpretations of them. The interpretations help us navigate. They also become increasingly difficult to distinguish from what we actually observed. Epictetus makes a demanding claim about that

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16:16

Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/10/01

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158.You’ve read the advice. You’ve asked the people you trust. And you’re still looking.Somewhere along the way, the search for information became a search for assurance. One asks the world a question. The other asks the world for a promise.So how much do you need to know before you act? You’ll never know enough to be certain. But you can know enough to

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4:16

The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/28

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. Not with deliberate effort.Simply by staying busy enough that it never quite surfaces. By treating awareness of death as something to manage—acknowledged briefly when unavoidable, then returned to its proper place at the far edge of consciousness, well away from the ordinary business of the

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14:59

Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/24

📮 Check out my new course, Resist and Persist: https://perennial.substack.com/p/introducing-resist-and-persistWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Mortal Questions.I want to try something new here on Dying Every Day. I’m calling it Mortal Questions.The idea is pretty simple. There are certain questions that seem to follow us through life—questions about happiness and suffering, work and love, ambition and regret, attention and death, and so on. Some have occupied philosophers for

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46:09

Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/17

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 157.What does it take to become strong enough to carry responsibility well?In this episode, I speak with writer, coach, and author Shane Trotter about discipline, mentorship, responsibility, and the work of character.Much of Shane’s work centers on a simple but increasingly important idea: people need more than information. They need formation.We talk

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4:32

"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/15

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. Not with deliberate effort.Simply by staying busy enough that it never quite surfaces. By treating awareness of death as something to manage—acknowledged briefly when unavoidable, then returned to its proper place at the far edge of consciousness, well away from the ordinary business of the

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6:43

"The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/10

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Letters from a Mortal.Before we begin, a word about this edition of the podcast. Letters from a Mortal is meant to be experienced a little differently from the usual podcast episode.The pace is slower. There is more silence.These letters are meant to be more of a contemplation and an invitation to step away from the noise at least for a few minutes.They are

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5:08

The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/07

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.Aristotle spent years trying to answer a question that most people never stop to ask. Not what makes people successful. Not what makes them comfortable or admired or free from obvious pain. Something harder and more interesting. What makes a human life genuinely good? Not good in someone else’s estimation. Not good according to the prevailing

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Day 156: The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/09/03

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 156.Imagine a young man with every door open.He is talented, and he knows it. He could be a scholar—the mind is there. He could be an artist; people have told him so. He could go into business and probably do well, or travel, or fall in love, or devote himself to a cause. Every path is available to him, and that is precisely the point: they are all still

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Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/08/28

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.The philosopher and the athlete are working on the same problem. The athlete knows that wanting to be fast is not the same as being fast. Between the desire and the capacity lies the only thing that actually closes the gap—the practice, repeated daily, in conditions that are sometimes ideal and more often not. No serious athlete waits to feel

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3:57

Dying Daily: The Returning Mind

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/08/24

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.Picture a man tied to the mast of his own ship.He gave the order himself. Bind me here, he told his crew, and whatever I say, however I beg, do not untie me until we’re past. Then he had them fill their own ears with beeswax so they couldn’t hear a thing, but he left his own ears open.And then the ship sails into the most dangerous stretch of water

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13:45

Dying Daily: A Stoic Lesson from The Odyssey

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/07/22

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.Picture a man tied to the mast of his own ship.He gave the order himself. Bind me here, he told his crew, and whatever I say, however I beg, do not untie me until we’re past. Then he had them fill their own ears with beeswax so they couldn’t hear a thing, but he left his own ears open.And then the ship sails into the most dangerous stretch of water

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12:27

Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/07/16

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 155.This week's episode is something a little different. Over the past few months, I've been building an audio course called "Resist and Persist: The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline." And I wanted you to hear the introduction. Mostly because the argument it makes stands on its own, and I think it's the most useful thing I've written this year: that if you've

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Day 154: Epictetus on the Discipline of Waiting |...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/07/09

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 154.“Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”— Epictetus, EnchiridionWaiting reveals what the soul believes it deserves.The delayed reply. The stalled decision. The slow line.The season of life that will not resolve on your preferred schedule.Impatience is rarely just about time

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Day 153: Stoicism and the Founding Fathers | Dying...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/07/04

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 153.“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.” — Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy (1713)In the brutal winter of 1777, the Continental Army was dying at Valley Forge.Not in battle. In the cold, the hunger, the disease. Men with no shoes, no blankets, no reason left to believe the war could be won. Desertion was constant. The

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4:34

Dying Daily: Seneca on Learning to Die

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/06/29

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.“He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”— Seneca, Moral LettersMuch of fear is fear of losing. Losing comfort. Losing status. Losing strength.Losing the familiar structure of the life you have arranged and quietly begun to mistake for permanent.Seneca’s point is severe because it reaches the root. Until you have made some

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10:14

Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/06/25

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 152.There is a man almost no one talks about anymore, and a small detail in his story that is hard to forget once you have noticed it.His name was Cato—Cato the Younger. He lived in the final decades of the Roman Republic, when the whole system was rotting from within. Bribery was everywhere. Everyone was on the take. Power went to whoever could buy the

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Dying Daily: "You Decide What it Means" | Dying Every...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/06/17

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.In today’s episode of Dying Daily, an occasional and much more casual series on the podcast, we sit with a question that most of us already know the answer to but haven’t done anything about: Who (and what) are we taking for granted?We’ve all been there: stuck in a slow line at the end of a long day, quietly frustrated at everyone and everything in

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10:47

Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/06/10

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 151.The Meditations are usually read as the record of a man who had mastered his philosophy—reminders to himself to stay on the path he had already found. That reading is not wrong. But it is incomplete. What Marcus does across these pages, again and again, is similar, not necessarily the same, to what Carl Jung would describe eighteen centuries later:

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Day 150: Stoicism and CBT on Training the Mind |...

Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations) ·

2026/06/03

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 150.“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by the opinions about the things: for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have seemed so to Socrates.” — Epictetus, EnchiridionEpictetus is not making a philosophical argument. He is performing one.He has taken the belief—death is terrible—and subjected it to a test. He has

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