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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

Is Ego A Virtue?

2019/3/5

In 2017, Good Morning Britain anchor Susanna Reid presented her co-anchor (actually she calls him he

Maybe you’ve had a hard time of it recently. That business project is three months over projections.

Spring is here! While most of us unthinkingly set our clocks forward (or have devices that do it for

Read Like A Spy

2019/2/28

As we’ve written about before, one of the most surprising parts of Seneca’s writing is how that avow

Eleanor Roosevelt had a great rule. We must do the thing we cannot do, she said. And if you look at

According to the great Jesuit Monk, Anthony De Mello, there are three intellectual feats that we str

Last fall, there was a New York Times profile on what’s called the FIRE movement. FIRE stands for Fi

If you’re born into certain religious faiths, you tend to be raised with strong views on sex that co

Do Less, Better

2019/2/21

Here’s the simple recipe for improvement and for happiness. It comes from Marcus Aurelius and the fa

No matter what your profession is, there are things you can say that will cost you. Speaking up agai

Slavery is one of the most common metaphors in Seneca’s writing. He talks about people who are slave

How do you know you’re making progress in this philosophy? It’s a question that every person has str

This Is How To Go Out

2019/2/15

Epicurus’s final letter begins with a rather remarkable sentence: “On this happy day, which is the l

It Can Happen To You

2019/2/14

A few weeks ago, we ran an email about Austin Murphy, the former Sports Illustrated writer whose thi

In Meditations, Marcus speaks passionately about escaping the “indelible stain” of power, of being c

Our newest Daily Stoic coinSummum Bonum is an expression from Cicero, Rome’s greatest orator. In Lat

What Will You Do Now?

2019/2/11

In the winter of 1824, things were not looking good for Simon Bolivar. He was at one of the lowest p

YOU Are Not The Problem

2019/2/8

Epictetus’s most powerful line is about how it’s not things that upset us, but what we think about t

Seneca wrote constantly about time. One of his most compelling observations was about how people are

Seneca was a very rich man. He accumulated that fortune largely due to his service to Nero’s corrupt