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The Daily Stoic

For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leade

Episodes

Total: 2581

It's Just The Glasses

2019/4/2

In his wonderful new book How To Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius

One of the benefits of being an artist is that everything that happens to you—no matter how traumati

By now you may have read the viral story about the unexpected friendship between Charles Barkley and

Do Not Be Afraid

2019/3/28

Life is pretty great, usually. Until you start thinking about what’s on the other side. That’s when

Know It Inside And Out

2019/3/27

Admiral Hyman Rickover, the father of the nuclear navy in the United States and an unsung hero in th

AJ Jacobs is known for his unique style of immersion journalism. He’s lived, literally, according to

It was said that Socrates saw his difficult marriage as a sort of challenge that life threw at him—t

It Smells Like...Life

2019/3/22

The German poet Friedrich Schiller supposedly liked to write with a drawer filled with rotting apple

All of us are trying to find something. Trying to find meaning, love, contentment. Because we feel l

Do Your Best

2019/3/20

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most thought-provoking and influential experts on habits and happiness.

Seneca tells the story of the philosopher Crates, who was walking in Athens when he saw a young man

Epictetus was born a slave. Quite literally, his name means, in Greek, acquired. Ultimately, he came

Let’s take a second to meditate on this observation from John Cage, the experimental musician and st

Zoom Out...And Laugh

2019/3/14

The way to make all your problems, even the really vexing and painful ones, seem less severe? It com

“I don’t have time to read a book that long,” you might say when someone recommends one of those epi

Last year, the writer Chuck Palahniuk received the kind of news that all of us dread. Someone he tru

Always, Ever The Same

2019/3/11

In his wonderful book, The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve, the Pulitzer Prize winning scholar Stephen

One of Seneca’s most powerful strategies comes from his time as a Senator. Speaking again of a thoug

Now Is Now

2019/3/7

There is a beautiful passage on the last page of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s, The Little House in the Big

Although today we consider “passion” to be a good thing—as in find your passion—to the Stoics, the p