The Daily Stoic
For centuries, all sorts of people?generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders?have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com.
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This Is How To Capture The Magic | Ask Daily Stoic
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There?s a Difference Between Urge and Action
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How To Do Good For People | Congressman Tim Ryan
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This is How You Make Hard Situations Easier | The Stoic Guide To Freedom And Power (From Epictetus)
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How Many Are Left? | Impulse Control
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Tom Segura Tours The Painted Porch
Tom Segura goes on a book tour of The Painted Porch to find the titles he is most interested in.
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Why You Should Run Towards Your Fear | Martha McSally PT2
Colonel (retired) Martha McSally was the 1st U.S. woman to command a fighter squadron in combat. She deployed 6 times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours in the A-10 attack plane, earning the Bronze Star and 6 Air Medals. She later served as a U.S. Congresswoman and U.S. Senator representing AZ. She is an endurance athlete and survivor of assault. Her book "Dare to Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up" can be found on her website: www.marthamcsally.com. www.2024bestyear.com
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Rage, Rage Against the Dying of the Light | Reject Tantalizing Gifts
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When You Wake Up Every Morning, Tell Yourself? | Ask Daily Stoic
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It Made Him Great
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Politics, Empowerment, And Never Giving Up | Senator Martha McSally PT 1
Colonel (retired) Martha McSally was the 1st U.S. woman to command a fighter squadron in combat. She deployed 6 times to the Middle East and Afghanistan, flying 325 combat hours in the A-10 attack plane, earning the Bronze Star and 6 Air Medals. She later served as a U.S. Congresswoman and U.S. Senator representing AZ. She is an endurance athlete and survivor of assault. Her book "Dare to Fly: Simple Lessons in Never Giving Up" can be found on her website: www.marthamcsally.com. www.2024bestyear.com
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This is Why We?re Afraid | How Tim Ferriss Deals With Champagne Problems (Using Stoicism)
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Don?t Be Replaced | Test Your Impressions
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Chasing Dreams And Risking It All In An Abandoned Ghost Town | Ghost Town Living Chapter 1
Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo, an original boomtown silver mine, established in 1865. Brent currently lives on a mountain above Death Valley with no running water, seven cats, six goats, and at least one ghost.
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How To Be A Supercommunicator | Charles Duhigg
Charles Duhigg is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard Business School. He is a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter and the author of The Power of Habit, which spent over three years on New York Times bestseller lists. His second book, Smarter Faster Better, was also a New York Times bestseller.
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Life Is Predictably Unpredictable | Trust But Verify
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Knowledge | Ask Daily Stoic
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What Limits You?
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Solving The Epidemic of Mental Illness Caused By Social Media | Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt is the Thomas Cooley Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University?s Stern School of Business. He obtained his PhD in social psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and taught at the University of Virginia for sixteen years. His research focuses on moral and political psychology, as described in his book The Righteous Mind. His latest book, The Anxious Generation, is a direct continuation of the themes explored in The Coddling of the American Mind.
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The Anthem of (Y)our Dying Day + This Single Word Will Give You Back Your Life
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Listen Now: How I Built?Liquid Death
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You Have To Major In Your Majors | What Can Go Wrong? Might
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The 9 Core Stoic Beliefs
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Finding Purpose In An Abandoned Ghost Town | Brent Underwood
Ryan talks with American entrepreneur and ghost town miner Brent Underwood. They discuss identifying and following your path, the history of Cerro Gordo, Brent?s latest book Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley, and more.
Brent Underwood is the owner of Cerro Gordo, an original boomtown silver mine, established in 1865. Brent currently lives on a mountain above Death Valley with no running water, seven cats, six goats, and at least one ghost.
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Don?t Worry What They Tell Themselves When You?re Away | There is Philosophy in Everything
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It?s Better Than A Grave And A Hearse | Ask Daily Stoic
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You're On Your Own, Kid
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Finding Enough, Getting Sober, and Improving Your Life | Sam Parr PT 2
Sam Parr is the founder of The Hustle, which is one of the fastest-growing media companies in the country, and Hustle Con - a one-day conference that teaches non-technical startup tactics. Sam recently co-founded Hampton which is a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs. Alongside his companies, he is also a prolific podcaster, hosting "The Hustle Podcast" and co-hosts "My First Million".
With his diverse skill set, extensive experience, and passion for entrepreneurship, Sam Parr continues to make waves in the business world, inspiring others to pursue their own ventures and redefine the future of commerce.
Newsletter: The Anti-MBA
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How To Make Zero Progress | Jocko Willink Reads Ego Is The Enemy
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Everything, Everywhere, All At Once | Say No To The Need to Impress
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How Emerson Can Change Your Life
On this episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, we're happy to bring you two excerpts from Lessons From An American Stoic: How Emerson Can Change Your Life by Mark Matousek.
In this wise, illuminating book, award-winning author Mark Matousek reveals how Emerson's timeless wisdom can help us with the problems we're facing today. America's 'original Stoic' confronted many of the issues before us, from polarization to fake news, from crooked politicians and rampant materialism, to the scourge of racism.
From the book LESSONS FROM AN AMERICAN STOIC: How Emerson Can Change Your Life, by Mark Matousek. Copyright © 2023 by Mark Matousek. Published on June 1, 2023, by HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Excerpted by permission.
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Balancing Purpose and Profit | Sam Parr PT 1
Sam Parr is the founder of The Hustle, which is one of the fastest-growing media companies in the country, and Hustle Con - a one-day conference that teaches non-technical startup tactics. Sam recently co-founded Hampton which is a highly vetted membership community for entrepreneurs, founders and CEOs. Alongside his companies, he is also a prolific podcaster, hosting "The Hustle Podcast" and co-hosts "My First Million".
With his diverse skill set, extensive experience, and passion for entrepreneurship, Sam Parr continues to make waves in the business world, inspiring others to pursue their own ventures and redefine the future of commerce.
Newsletter: The Anti-MBA
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Which Approach Will You Take? | The Sign Of True Education
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This Choice Can Change Everything | Ask Daily Stoic
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Solve The Problem First
Yeah, it?s frustrating. Yeah, it was preventable. Yeah, you told them it was preventable, you warned them what would happen. They didn?t listen and now here you are. Yeah, it?s gonna be costly. Yeah, you?re pissed.
But you know what you should do? You should solve the problem first. You can put your emotions about it aside. You can worry about blame later. ?You don?t have to turn this into something,? Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations. ?It doesn?t have to upset you.? He also writes about how easy it is to waste energy investigating the causes of things, taking things personally, extrapolating out what everything means. He?s saying: Just deal with it. Solve the problem, worry about ?accountability? later.
Right now, you?ve got to figure out what you?re going to do about the fact that your spouse left the keys at home. Right now, you?ve got to deal with the fact that one of your kids is hurt and crying?that your other one is responsible can be addressed later. Right now, you?ve got payroll to meet, you?ve got an order that?s late, you?ve got a boat to get on the trailer. Get your emotions under control, resist the urge to argue and fight about the situation you?re in. Deal with the fact you?re in the situation first. You can deal with the rest later.
?and you just might find, after you?ve solved the problem, that you don?t much care about whose fault it was anymore.
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How to be an Honorable Leader and Combat Imposter Syndrome | Admiral Bill McRaven
Ryan speaks with Admiral Bill McRaven about the nature of being a Stoic, imposter syndrome when being a leader, and how resilience is sometimes enduring injustice. They also discuss McRaven?s two books, The Wisdom of the Bullfrog: Leadership Made Simple and Make Your Bed: Little Things That Can Change Your Life?and Maybe Even The World.
Admiral Bill McRaven is a retired US Navy four-star admiral. He served 37 years as a Navy SEAL leading men and women at every level of the special operations community. During those four decades, Admiral McRaven dealt with every conceivable leadership challenge, from commanding combat operations?including the capture of Saddam Hussein, the rescue of Captain Phillips, and the raid for Osama bin Laden.
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You Can?t Change What Happened, But? | 13 Ways A Stoic Challenges Themselves Every Day
With a business partner, some investors, and his life savings, Brent Underwood bought the abandoned mining turned ghost town, Cerro Gordo, in 2018.
The plan was to bring the town back to life, to turn the 336 acres and 22 buildings into a historical destination. That plan largely revolved around the American Hotel, the literal and metaphorical center of town. But then on June 15, 2020, 149 years to the day it opened, the American Hotel caught fire and burned to the ground.
?It was probably the most devastating day of my life,? Brent would recall. ?You are literally watching your life savings and hopes and dreams burn in front of you.? As he stood atop the ashes, the town?s previous owner put his hand on Brent?s shoulder. ?You can?t change what happened,? he told Brent, ?but what happens from here is up to you.? More than just providing comfort, Brent wrote, those words were ?a call to action.?
It?s a reminder that for everything outside of our control, we retain?at the core of our being?an incredible power: The power to choose what we do with what happens to us. The power to decide what role an event will play in our lives. The power to write the end of our own story.
No one can take that away from us. People can hurt us. Money can be lost. Jobs can disappear. Cars can crash into each other. Stoicism can?t change what happened. No philosophy is a time machine.
But what we can do, what the Stoic practice is meant to help us do, is to prevail over what happened, and decide what comes next.
You can read about what Brent did after the American Hotel burned down in his new book Ghost Town Living: Mining for Purpose and Chasing Dreams at the Edge of Death Valley. It?s just one of the many lesson-packed stories in the book about Brent?s time at Cerro Gordo. From facing isolation and the challenges of preserving historical integrity to confronting physical dangers like mine shafts and the elements, Ghost Town Living is story of adventure and tenacity, as well as a call to chase after audacious dreams, defy the conventional, and devote yourself to your own the pursuit of an extraordinary life.
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Do This While You Can | The Portable Retreat
It?s funny, over here at Daily Stoic, we do these challenges throughout the year (maybe you?ve joined one before). On the one hand, this name is probably bad marketing. People don?t usually get excited by the thought of being challenged. In fact, what they usually want is a secret or a shortcut or a hack. They want someone to solve the challenges for them. On the other hand, isn?t embracing life?s challenges what Stoicism is all about? So naturally, we couldn?t call the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge anything but that. It is a challenge. 10 days straight of them. Starting now.
So yes it?s been a long December, but as the song also reminds us, there?s reason to believe that this year will be better than the last. And that reason is you?if you allow yourself to be, if you challenge yourself, if you decide to climb out of your velvet rut. A person who has never been challenged, Seneca said, who always gets their way, is a tragic figure. They have no idea what they are capable of. They are not even close to fulfilling their potential. ?Stop wandering about!? Marcus Aurelius said to himself, perhaps on the eve of a new season just like this one. ?Get busy with life's purpose,? he commanded, ?toss aside empty hopes, get active in your own rescue?if you care for yourself at all?and do it while you can.?
And so as the seasons change, as the clocks change, we want to urge you one last time to join us and thousands of other Stoics in The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. Because one of the best ways to cure anxiety, to deal with stress, and to become present is to really throw yourself into some means of self-improvement. Stop procrastinating. Break out. Break free. Get cleaning. Challenge yourself.
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It's Time To Get Clean | Kentucky Wildcats Basketball
On this weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan talks with Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball Team in which he focuses on the timeless wisdom of the four cardinal virtues?wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance?Holiday adeptly tailored his message to the elite world of collegiate basketball.
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Today is that day many dread?the day the clocks spring forward. Yes, in the middle of the night, you lost an hour that you?ll never get back. An hour of sleep, an hour of leisure, an hour to spend with your kids. You mourn that loss of time, wondering all the ways you could?ve spent it otherwise.
Don?t fall into this trap and join us TODAY for the Spring Forward challenge. It starts March 19 and is set up to push you to examine your habits, your choices, and your relationships to move you closer to living your best life here and now.
*A note on the audio for this episode: an issue with Ryan's live mic resulted in the discrepancy in audio quality that you hear. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Seasonality and Understanding Pseudo-Productivity | Cal Newport PT 2
Ryan continues his conversation with computer science professor and bestselling author, Cal Newport. They discuss how to be indispensable in your personal and professional life, the myth of busyness, Cal?s latest book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, and more.
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on the theory of distributed systems, while his general-audience writing explores intersections of culture and technology. He is the author of eight books, including Slow Productivity, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Newport is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep Questions podcast.
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Every Day Is A Chance For This | The Present Is All We Possess
That was the purpose behind Stoicism, behind the journaling, and the reading, and studying of this philosophy, behind the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge (which starts on Tuesday, the first day of spring)?to use each day as an opportunity to improve yourself action by action, step by step. This might not seem like much, as Zeno said, but it adds up to no small thing.
Every one of us wants to improve, wants to be better, wants to have better habits, live better, think better. But most of us wait to launch that business, write that novel, develop that fitness routine, to do what we know is right. We?ll do it when we?re more secure, we say, we?ll do it later, or in the fall, or next year, when things get back to normal. But putting things off is the biggest waste of life, Seneca reminds us. It snatches away the present in exchange for some promised future.
Every day is a new season. Every day is spring, whatever hemisphere you?re in. Every day is a chance for a new beginning. That every day we awake, we can choose a new life, a new way, to rededicate ourselves to becoming the best versions of ourselves.
As we?ve been saying, this is a chance to begin afresh, afresh, afresh. And that?s what we?re all going to be doing in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. It?s designed to push you to examine those parts of your life, those habits, those choices that could move you closer to living your best life. You could have the good life, the life you deserve, right now!
Participants will receive:
? 10 Custom Challenges Delivered Daily (Over 15,000 words of all-new original content)
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It is a new season, and it can also be the beginning of a new you, too. Give yourself 10 days of improvement and a runway for true, sustainable change.
Challenge yourself to spring forward to be the person you know you can be. Don?t wait any longer to live the life you deserve. Head over to dailystoic.com/spring and sign up NOW!
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Don?t Rush Through This | Ask DS
Seneca makes the point, however, that what we are really rushing towards?with all deliberate speed?is death. That?s what he means when he says that we get death wrong. Death is not some distant thing in the future, not some one-time thing that looms ahead. Instead, death is something happening to you right now. It?s happening as you read this email (hope it?s been worth it!), it?s happening as you struggle to put your daughter?s shoes on so you can drop her off at school and then it?s happening still more as you sit down to that coffee meeting you rushed to even though you didn?t want to have it in the first place. It happens as you procrastinate, it happens as you distract yourself, it happens as you make bad choices, it happens as you worry and dread and whine.
And that?s why we created The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge. It?s a set of ten brand-new actionable challenges designed to push you to examine your choices, your relationships, and your day-to-day patterns and move you closer to living your best life.
?Remember how long you?ve been putting this off,? Marcus Aurelius writes, ?how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn?t use them.? He reminds us ?that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don?t use it to free yourself it will be gone and will never return.?
Don?t rush through life, don?t rush toward death. Use the time assigned to you and sign up for The Spring Forward Challenge NOW at dailystoic.com/spring! Challenge starts March 19!
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On today's episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with Kentucky Wildcats Men's Basketball Team in which he focuses on the timeless wisdom of the four cardinal virtues?wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance.
*A note on the audio for this episode: an issue with Ryan's live mic resulted in the discrepancy in audio quality that you hear. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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You Gotta Be Able To Do This
Marcus Aurelius was, of course, an incredible man. He endured more than most people. He had more power than most people?and wore it more lightly. He did more work on himself than most people, understood people, and himself, better than most people.
Was he perfect though? Of course not. No one is.
In Lonesome Dove, the Texas Ranger Captain Woodrow Call seems almost superhuman, especially to the young cowboy Newt. Newt worships the ground the man walks on, believing he isn?t like the rest of them. And in a sense, he isn?t. The Captain can ride further and faster, is more principled, less afraid, tougher than everyone on the Plains.
We know Marcus Aurelius made mistakes. We know he paid lip service to admitting error in Meditations, to not continuing in error just because you began in one. But how good was he in practice? It?s less clear. He was wrong about his son Commodus for example. Was he too proud to admit this? Here, or elsewhere, did he have trouble owning that he was just like everyone else? That he could screw up? That he had human urges and human flaws? We hope so but we don?t know.
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Slow Productivity and Anticipating Consequences | Cal Newport PT 1
In the first half of this two-part conversation, Ryan talks with computer science professor and bestselling author, Cal Newport. They discuss the facade of hustle culture, understanding what really moves the needle in your process, Cal?s latest book Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout, and more.
Cal Newport is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Georgetown University. His scholarship focuses on the theory of distributed systems, while his general-audience writing explores intersections of culture and technology. He is the author of eight books, including Slow Productivity, Digital Minimalism, and Deep Work. Newport is also a contributing writer for the New Yorker and the host of the Deep Questions podcast.
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You Don't Want To See This | The Stoic Guide To Freedom And Power (From Epictetus)
That obnoxious person. That contractor who ripped you off. That slow driver. That overly enthusiastic exercise instructor. That brusk receptionist. That clingy parent. That friend holding a grudge. That loud neighbor.
They?re not exactly your favorite. They don?t exactly make your life easier. But you know what you need to remember? You need to remember that they are just doing their jobs. ?Is a world without shameless people possible?? Marcus Aurelius asks in Meditations. No, it isn?t, he reminds himself. So why am I surprised to find one he says? Somebody has to be that person and this person is it.
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In the first century AD, few would have argued that Epictetus was the most powerful person in Rome. Few would have argued that this lowly slave possessed any power at all?in fact, the name said it all: Epictetus means acquired one.
Most of us are born into this world closer in status to Epictetus than Marcus Aurelius. We are more lowly than we are exalted. Yet each of us, as Seneca said, has access to the greatest empire, ruling over ourselves. Will we seize this kingdom? Or will we trade it away for superficial, shiny things? We free ourselves through our freedom of choice, or will we hand that freedom over to the mob, to our urges, to our fears?
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Everybody Is Doing Their Job | Think About It From The Other Person's Perspective
That obnoxious person. That contractor who ripped you off. That slow driver. That overly enthusiastic exercise instructor. That brusk receptionist. That clingy parent. That friend holding a grudge. That loud neighbor.
They?re not exactly your favorite. They don?t exactly make your life easier. But you know what you need to remember? You need to remember that they are just doing their jobs. ?Is a world without shameless people possible?? Marcus Aurelius asks in Meditations. No, it isn?t, he reminds himself. So why am I surprised to find one he says? Somebody has to be that person and this person is it.
In her wonderful book on parenting, Good Inside, Dr. Becky Kennedy discusses what to do when a young child is having a full-on meltdown, what to do when they?re hitting a sibling because they?re upset or frustrated. Of course, your job is to keep them safe, to intervene but as that?s happening, she says we ought to say to ourself, ?My child is doing their job of expressing feelings. We are both doing what we need to do. I can handle this.?
That?s what Marcus Aurelius tried to do when he encountered jerks and liars and cheats. That?s what you have to do with the people you encounter in your life. Your kids are kids?it?s their job to freak out sometimes, it?s their job to be kids. At least they?re having fun with it. That overbearing police officer? Someone had to be a bad cop?and they?re it. Sucks for everyone, but definitely for them. Somebody has to be the slow driver, the neighbor that gets on everyone?s nerves, the whatever. This is their assignment.
But our assignment? Like the parent lovingly calming down that angry toddler, our job is to be patient, decent, calm, and understanding. It?s a hard job but it?s a good one. It?s our job.
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And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt, Ryan discusses the importance of questioning our own perspective while trying to understand and empathize with others'.
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Are You Spending This Wisely? | Lives Of The Stoics ( Antipater the Ethicist )
Today is that day many dread?the day the clocks spring forward. Yes, in the middle of the night, you lost an hour that you?ll never get back. An hour of sleep, an hour of leisure, an hour to spend with your kids. You mourn that loss of time, wondering all the ways you could?ve spent it otherwise.
He is the pupil and successor of Dioghenes ho Babylonios (Diogenes of Babylon or of Seleucia) as head of the Stoic school. Antipater is also the teacher of Panaitios ho Rodos (Panaetius of Rhodes). In the field of ethics, Antipater seems to take a higher moral ground than that of his teacher Dioghenes.
Today, Ryan reads from his book Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius to share the winding and often confounding story of one of the most important figures of Stoicism.
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Changing the World with Civility and the Core of Stoicism | Alexandra Hudson
Ryan speaks with author Alexandra Hudson about how to navigate pragmatic situations through civility, unbundling the mental framework of people, her new book The Soul of Civility, and more.
Alexandra is a writer, speaker, and the founder of Civic Renaissance, a publication and intellectual community dedicated to beauty, goodness and truth. She was named the 2020 Novak Journalism Fellow, and contributes to Fox News, CBS News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, TIME Magazine, POLITICO Magazine, and Newsweek. She earned a master's degree in public policy at the London School of Economics as a Rotary Scholar, and is an adjunct professor at the Indiana University Lilly School of Philanthropy. She is also the creator of a series for The Teaching Company called Storytelling and The Human Condition, now available for streaming. She lives in Indianapolis, IN with her husband and children.
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Everybody Wants To Rule The World | Don't Unintentionally Hand Over Your Freedom
For as long as there have been groups of people, people have wanted to be in charge of those people. For as long as there have been armies, people have tried to use them to conquer, to rule, to accumulate empires.
Was it worth it? Did they enjoy it? Did it mean anything? Few, if any of them, ever bothered to honestly answer that question. This is what makes Marcus Aurelius? Meditations such a remarkable and unprecedented text. Here you have the most powerful man in the world, head of the most powerful army on earth, a victorious general whose triumphs warranted an 130-foot tall marble column lauding his achievements. And what did he say that all this amounted to?
Not much! Meditations is Marcus Aurelius? refutation of the idea that you should want to rule the world. It strips it of its glamor and delusions (literally at one point, Marcus breaks down the feast he was given, removing, he said, ?the legends that encrust it?). Being famous is empty, he tells us. Being remembered is worthless. Power is corrupting and an immense burden.
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You Aren?t Killing Time. Time Is Killing You | Ryan Holiday Answers On Ego And Mentorship
Seneca reminded himself that death is not this thing in the future, but something that is happening now. It is always happening. It is the ticking hand of the clock. It is the spring flowers. It is the fall harvest. It is the summer rains. It is the first snow of the year.
This idea is a reminder that each moment is precious. It tells us to wake up and really live, not just watch time go by. To embrace the longer days and make the most of it. If that sounds like something you?re up for, why don?t you join is in what we?re calling the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge?
The Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge is set up to push you to examine those parts of your life, to examine your choices, to examine your relationships and move you closer to living your best life.
Participants will receive:
? 10 Custom Challenges Delivered Daily (Over 15,000 words of all-new original content)
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On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan delivered an impactful talk on "Ego is the Enemy" to a captivated audience of 600 real estate agents, aged between 30 and 60 years old, at Omni Barton Creek. This talk focuses on finding one's process and the importance of mentors. Holiday inspired the attendees to navigate their professional journeys with humility and self-awareness. The talk delved into Holiday's own experiences, emphasizing the value of continuous learning and the influence of some of his favorite books. Additionally, Holiday shared insights on overcoming challenges such as writer's block and providing practical strategies to maintain creativity and productivity.
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