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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 Stoi...
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Here’s How You Take Back Your Time | Become Dangerously Persuasive With These Books
Think of how you spent the last week. Were those seven days as efficient or productive as they could be?
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It’s Scary…But In A Good Way
Without change, we stagnate. Our minds grow complacent, ignorant to new ideas. Our bodies grow weak from disuse. We remain stuck.
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The Day Control Was Taken From Us
Most people remember exactly where they were the week of March 11, 2020. Life suddenly stopped. The world went quiet. And for a brief moment, everythi...
What Can You Notice?
There is beauty and peace in noticing. The world is filled with things to see and hear.
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Have You Lost The Beat, Tune, or Rhythm? | Think About It From The Other Person's Perspective
You will get knocked off course. You will fall off the wagon. You will get out of sorts. That's unavoidable. What matters is how quickly you return.
They Should Have What They Want
We should think about where we have made our happiness conditional on this or that achievement, on this or that identity which lies outside our contro...
Jordan Klepper's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)
After their conversation for The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan gave Jordan Klepper, comedian, writer, and correspondent on The Daily Show, a few book reco...
The Complete Stoic Playbook To MASTER Your Emotions
Do your emotions ever get the best of you? Someone says one thing and it ruins your whole day. A small frustration turns into a big deal. Travel anxie...
Jordan Klepper: How Mob Thinking Takes Over | PT. 2
When does belonging start to matter more than being right? In Part 2 of Ryan’s conversation with Jordan Klepper, they dive into how mob thinking takes...
Will You Face This Truth?
Even though we can’t control time or slow it down, even though we can’t control external forces and external events—we can control ourselves, so we ca...
Use This As Practice | 3 Stoic Exercises For Your Best Month Yet
Get your reps in…because none of us have any idea what life has in store for us in the future.
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Now Is The Time
It’s been a long winter. But now? Now you can feel something is in the air.
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Jordan Klepper: How to Talk to People You Disagree With (Without Losing It) | PT. 1
What do you do when someone says something you completely disagree with or something that sounds totally detached from reality? Jordan Klepper, corres...
You Can’t Forget What You Don’t Put Off | (Dis)integration
We plan to do it. We mean to do it. We just tell ourselves that we’ll do it tomorrow. The problem, as the Stoics remind us, is that we don’t control t...
They’re Not Wrong (They’re Just Cut Off From Truth) | What Expensive Things Cost
Haven’t you been wrong before? Haven’t you done stuff that in retrospect seems dumb or weird? Of course you have.
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Why Thinking About Your Death Will Save Your Life
Meditating on death isn’t depressing, it’s clarifying. In this episode, Ryan explains how the Stoic practice of Memento Mori will sharpen your priorit...
The Discipline That Made Marcus Aurelius
The greatness of Antoninus and Marcus Aurelius was not perfection but progress. They were imperfect men committed to self-discipline and self-correcti...
Who Would Ever Want to Be King? | Stop Letting Yourself Off the Hook
Power doesn’t wait for the perfect person to raise their hand. Someone will wield it. Someone always does.
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It Picks You Up. It Puts You Down. A Hundred Times A Day. | Cultivate Indifference
Is this what we’re here for? To be the passions’ slave? To be the plaything of emotions and impulses? It can’t be!
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BONUS | 3 Practices to Improve Your Life In a Week
What if it only took five minutes each morning to feel more in control of your life? In this conversation, Dr. Rangan Chatterjee shares the three dail...
Lincoln’s Secret Weapon (It Wasn’t Power)
How do you hold a country together when it’s tearing itself apart? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns...
You Can’t Join Them
People are the way they are. They will always be this way. We don’t control that.
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This is The Math That Losers Do | What Virtue Is This Moment Asking of You?
The past is gone, and no amount of calculation will bring it back or make it fair. What we do have is agency right now.
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This is How You Win the Day | Circumstances Have No Care For Our Feelings
We have a duty. Our nature—justice—demands something from us. It demands that we get up, get after it, and wear ourselves down doing it.
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Simple Stoic Rules That Actually Change Your Life
Life is a lot. It moves fast. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by what to do, what not to do, and whether you’re even focusing on the right things. In to...
The Case for History (Before It Repeats Itself) | Kenny Curtis
If you think history is boring, irrelevant, or just not your "thing", this episode is for you. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Kenny Curtis, h...
You’ve Gotta Make Them Work For It | The Presidential Biographies You Can’t Afford to Skip
It’s discouraging. It’s distracting. All the stuff that’s happening in the world. But you know what you can’t do? You can’t give up your work, your fr...
What A Wonderful Thing to Measure | Stoic Strategies for Becoming More Resilient
We should pride ourselves on our ability to put up with these people, to be able to be nice to people who are not nice, to be able to turn the other c...
They’re Not Thinking About You At All | The Dangerous Comfort of Half Measures
Day to day, it’s only our individual actions that are up to us: How we treat people, how we run our businesses, what we think about.
BONUS | This Stoic Idea Will Reset Your Week
The Stoics knew that wanting less increases gratitude, just as wanting more obliterates it.
"Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart'...
Burn this Letter | The Enemy of Happiness
It’s not that you should never speak up. It’s not that you should never speak truth to power. It’s just that you should never do it while you’re angry...
This Was Washington’s Philosophy | Power Fades. Character Leads.
All that we see must be illuminated by the calm light of mild philosophy. So we can see what it really is. So we don’t do anything we regret.
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If You Only Read a Few Books This Year, Read These
Most people don’t read that many books, maybe a few a year at most. So if you’re only going to read a couple books this year, the decision of which on...
11 Stoic Rules For Love
Love isn’t just an emotion. It’s not just a feeling that hits you out of nowhere. It’s an action, something you can practice and something you can get...
This Kindles the Soul | Why You Can't Ignore What's Happening
Marcus Aurelius said that if you ever found anything better in life than courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom—the four virtues—it must be an extra...
Do Not Delay | Dan Harris & Ryan Holiday on The Pursuit of Wisdom
Life has a way of stripping all our reasons bare, of humbling our plans and assumptions. We must live, as Marcus Aurelius said, as if death hangs over...
Stephen Greenblatt: Why “This Time Is Different” Is Always Wrong
Why do the same patterns keep showing up in completely different centuries? In this episode, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Stephen Greenblatt joins...
There’s a Rhythm. There’s a Rhythm.
It can feel like everything is falling to pieces. It can feel like you’re lost. It can feel like there’s no hope, no way forward, nothing to do. But t...
You Have to Fight for It | Is There A Dark Side To Stoicism?
It would be wonderful if the world was naturally just, if people were automatically good, always doing the right thing. But of course, they don’t.
You Are Responsible For How They Make You Feel | Watch Over Your Perceptions
At the core of Stoicism is the idea that our emotions are our responsibility. No one can make us frustrated. No one can offend us either, Epictetus sa...