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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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The Stoic All the Stoics Admired
Cato’s life was his philosophy, and the Stoics never stopped looking to his example. In today’s episode, Ryan explores why Cato the Younger became one...
It Can’t Think About You | How to Be a Better Friend, According to the Stoics
These are impersonal forces. This is fortune and fate. It’s not targeting you. It’s not favoring or picking on you.
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BONUS | 6 Stoic Rules of Arete (Excellence)
Arete. To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of human greatness—moral, physical, spiritual. It’s what the Stoics were cha...
They’re Not Thinking About You At All
They’re awful. They’re frustrating. They need to be stopped. These are the people who take up so much space in our head.
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You Think You Want Autonomy. You Don’t. | David Epstein
You think you want more freedom, but too much of it can work against you. In this episode, Ryan talks with David Epstein about why constraints can act...
This is the Part To Love | How a Stoic Deals with Obnoxious People
The terrible diagnosis. The betrayal. The broken heart. Are they Stoics really saying you should love that? Is that what it means to “amor fati”—to lo...
When Your Passion Is Master of Your Reason… | We Are a Product of Our Habits
Recognizing your anger in the moment, feeling it rising before it takes over, means you’ve already started mastering it.
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40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
You think you’ve read Meditations, but the deeper truths in Marcus Aurelius’ private writings often reveal themselves only after years of revisiting t...
What Comes After Surviving the Unthinkable | Kyle Carpenter
What happens after you survive something that should have killed you? After being critically injured in Afghanistan, Kyle Carpenter faced years of sur...
What You Need is a Small Crisis | Show, Not Tell, What You Know
When we stop resisting and start learning, the obstacle becomes the way.
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BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump
Watch Ryan's response on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1OfTQusvYM
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The Choice That Kept Dr. Edith Eger Alive In Auschwitz
Dr. Edith Eger faced the worst humanity can do, survived Auschwitz, and went on to build a 98-year life rooted in resilience, forgiveness, and meaning...
Why Are You Surprised?
The surprising thing about all this is that you were surprised. How could you not have seen this coming?
Reading Marcus Aurelius c...
Marcus Aurelius's Rules for Living a Better Life
To wrap up Meditations Month, today Ryan explores Marcus’s best rules for using the precious time in your life.
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Kyle Carpenter on Courage, Survival, and What Comes After
The Medal of Honor is the highest military award in the United States, given for extraordinary courage in the face of danger. In this episode, Ryan si...
It’s Right There. Take It. | Stoic Lessons Hidden in Bruce Springsteen Songs
You can’t learn history that you don’t take the time to look at, that you think you already understand.
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Nothing Is As Encouraging As This | The Freedom of Contempt
It was a dark world…and Marcus Aurelius desperately needed some light.
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The Most Powerful Lines From Marcus Aurelius
How can a 2,000-year-old book still change the way you think today? In this episode, Ryan Holiday shares passages from Meditations that he’s returned...
Why “Meditations” Needs a New Name—According to William O. Stephens
Most people read Marcus Aurelius the wrong way. In this episode, Ryan sits down with philosopher William Stephens to discuss why the title "Meditation...
It’s Never an Accident | Ask Daily Stoic
Our true character comes out under pressure. So we must train that character, we must develop our bodies, we have to put in the work.
Empower Yourself with This | Why You Need to Get In the Arena
We all have those days where we’d rather just not. Days where we’d rather not deal with that annoying co-worker or petty family member. Days where we’...
Everything Is Connected. We Just Forgot.
It’s strange that we need a day to remind us we’re part of the planet we live on. In this Earth Day episode, Ryan explores the Stoic idea of sympathei...
You Have Access to a Miracle of History
The Stoics weren’t just leaders and philosophers. They were parents, spouses, and friends, who experienced joy, who fell in love, who cherished the be...
You Are On The Right Timeline | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
This isn’t the timeline I’m supposed to be on, you think. This isn’t how it was supposed to go. But what if it is?
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Time is Racing Toward Us | Pete Holmes on The Real Point of Philosophy
We think that it’s off in the distance. We think that it’s far away. But this is wrong. Fundamentally wrong.
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31 Life-Changing Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
For nearly 2,000 years, Meditations has guided presidents, generals, and leaders, from Theodore Roosevelt to Frederick the Great to Arnold Schwarzeneg...
How Does Stoicism Help You Overcome Guilt and Shame?
In today's episode, Ryan answers questions from a live audience in Sydney, Australia. Some of these questions include:
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The Decades Disappear Like Sinking Ships | Impulse Control
This is happening and it’s happening in one direction. We have to pay attention.
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You Don’t Have to Do It Alone
“Mastery of reading and writing requires a master,” Marcus Aurelius writes. He knew this from experience.
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The 5-Step Stoic Routine for Clear Thinking | Maria Semple
The difference between reacting and thinking clearly starts with how you begin your day. In this episode, Ryan sits down with bestselling author Maria...
Prison Took His Freedom. Stoicism Gave It Back.
What happens when everything is taken from you and the only thing left is how you think? In this episode, Lamb of God’s lead singer Randy Blythe share...
This is How You Have To See (and Respond To) Things | Becoming An Expert In What Matters
Start living your life with more courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom by deepening your understanding of one of the most enduring books on life ev...
Heal Yourself With This | The Cure for a Reading Slump
The Stoics urged us to read, study, and journal, not as abstract philosophy, but to help us recover from the stuff life throws at us.
You Think You Have Time. You Don’t.
It’s a tragedy. Too many people, Seneca says, reach the end of life with nothing to show for it but a number.
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What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins
What if the hardest moments in your life aren’t detours but the very things that put you on the right path? In Part 2, bestselling author Jim Collins...
Nothing Can Get In The Way of the Mission | Test Your Impressions
Roles shift. Titles change. But the mission never does.
Reading Marcus Aurelius can change your life, but only if you know how to...
If You’re Lost, You’re Asking the Wrong Question | Jim Collins (PT.1)
What if the reason you feel lost has nothing to do with direction and everything to do with the question you’re asking? Ryan sits down with bestsellin...
This Can Change the Course of Your Life
The right book at the right time is a powerful thing. In fact, it can change the whole course of your life.
Reading Marcus Aureliu...
You Must Learn to See | The Stoic Lesson of Marcus Aurelius' Crumbling Statue
We must change our aperture and perspective so that amidst the muddle and puddles of life, we can see what the artist and the philosopher sees.
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You Can Skip This Part of the Nightmare | Stoicism, Across the World
You may well be in the middle of—or in for—a nightmare. But you can skip part of it, the last part…if you choose.
Ryan Holiday is...