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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 was Heraclitus--a favorite of Marcus Aurelius--who said that “to be self-controlled is the greate

We Have So Much In Common

2018/11/8

In a very short period around 2003, the musician Rosanne Cash lost her sister, her step mother, her

William MacAskill is a fascinating guy. He is the youngest Associate Professor in Philosophy at the

Each Of Us Has A Duty

2018/11/6

In one sense, it’s hard to argue with the statistics that any individual’s vote makes a difference.

So much of what we do as a society could be described as arguing with reality. Turn on cable news an

Don’t Borrow Suffering

2018/11/2

Here’s a line from Seneca: “We suffer more in imagination than in reality.” Meaning, we spend so muc

Like you’ve never cut in line, on purpose or on accident. Like you’ve never done something selfish o

Don't Be A Snowflake

2018/10/31

A few years ago, conservative commentators in America began using a term for young college students-

You’ll likely know Charlamagne Tha God as the host of the nationally revered radio show The Breakfas

On one of his more arduous hunts, after days of patiently tracking (and weeks of planning before tha

We Are So Soon Forgotten

2018/10/26

A few miles outside Rome, along the still-smooth stone-paved Appian Way, is a tall brick tomb that i

When we get dumped or we fail or we lose someone, we often hear that “Time heals all wounds” or some

One of the things that separates us from other people--indeed that has been responsible for our succ

We All Have The Same Nature

2018/10/23

Robert Greene’s five international bestsellers earned him descriptions like genius and master of hum

“The hunter worthy of the name always willingly takes the bitter if by so doing he can get the sweet

Michael Lombardi is a former NFL coach, GM and front office strategist who is largely responsible fo

In the late 1800s, Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Big Hole Basin in Montana. The trip d

Don’t Make This Mistake

2018/10/17

There is a repeated pattern of failure in Marcus Aurelius’s life, and no matter how much we might ad

Varlam Shalamov was a brilliant writer who was sentenced in 1937 to years of hard labor in a Soviet

Why Ego Is Your Enemy

2018/10/15

One of the early members of Alcoholics Anonymous defined ego as “a conscious separation from.” From