Motivation

Podcast

11 Stoic lessons to reset your mind for the new year

The Daily Stoic January 6, 2026

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Motivation 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Your power of choice can never be taken from you
• Resisting change blocks good things from arriving in your life
• One Stoic idea per day, digested slowly, compounds into wisdom

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Overcoming perfectionism by shipping early and iterating

Brendon Burchard January 5, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Smart people rationalise delay better than anyone — that's the trap
• Perfectionism is fear of feedback, not pursuit of high standards
• Praise yourself on progress, not for reaching the finish line

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

The Let Them Theory through a Stoic lens: Mel Robbins and Ryan Holiday

The Daily Stoic January 3, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Vision & mission 5

• Accepting people as they are is more powerful than trying to change them.
• Jealousy at others' success signals desires you're blocking yourself from pursuing.
• Most people privately share the same values — extreme voices distort what we think others believe.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Six Stoic rules to make 2026 your best year

The Daily Stoic January 2, 2026

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Most suffering happens in the mind long before reality arrives.
• Wanting more is the most avoidable form of poverty — reduce desires instead.
• Deliberate discomfort builds courage; comfort breeds fear of losing it.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic discipline of control: separating what's yours from what isn't

The Daily Stoic December 30, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Most suffering comes from fighting things outside your control
• Epictetus: only opinions, choices, and responses are truly yours
• Arguing with past events burns leverage you only have going forward

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Self-improvement as the most direct path to improving the world

The Daily Stoic December 29, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Improving yourself is the only lever you fully control.
• What improves the bee improves the hive — Stoic logic for civic action.
• Gratitude practised for hard things gradually makes that gratitude real.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Four Stoic virtues to live better in 2026

The Daily Stoic December 28, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Moral courage is the daily requirement — everyone is scared.
• One ambitious hard target a year builds the will that carries you.
• Wisdom is an information diet, not a trait you either have or don't.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Memento Mori: How death awareness makes you live better

The Daily Stoic December 27, 2025

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Resilience & grit 10

• Death awareness makes you more present, not more anxious
• Obsessing over longevity often strips life of what makes it worth living
• Fear doesn't stop death — it stops life

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Stop waiting: turn Stoic words into daily works

The Daily Stoic December 23, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Resilience & grit 6

• Procrastination adds interest — it never makes the hard thing easier.
• Reading Stoicism without changing behaviour makes you a sophist.
• Marcus Aurelius was still fighting the same battles late in life.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Why most New Year's resolutions fail and what to do instead

The Daily Stoic December 23, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 5

• Targeting the behaviour, not its function, is why resolutions collapse
• Resolutions driven by shame and fear are structurally doomed to fail
• Five-minute daily minimums beat ambitious plans you never start

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

David Choe on Art, Addiction, and Channeling Shame into Creative Power

Andrew Huberman December 22, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Founder interviews 8

Identity & self-belief 7

• Shame is a drug — and every addiction is ultimately gambling addiction.
• The Facebook equity bet paid off; the gambling winnings didn't.
• Recovery only started when enough people cared to make him care about himself.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stake your own claim: stop quoting, start thinking

The Daily Stoic December 22, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Seneca's challenge: stop repeating others' wisdom, form your own.
• Stoicism demands contribution — disagreement, addition, original thought.
• Your actions and who you become matter more than any words.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Ryan Holiday's essential reading list for resilience and mastery

The Daily Stoic December 19, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 5

• Fortune turns — expect adversity and focus on responding well.
• Seven books that build the toolkit for mastery and meaning.
• Frankl, Marcus Aurelius, and Homer teach the same core lesson.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoic self-reliance: taking ownership in uncertain times

The Daily Stoic December 18, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• No external force will fix your life — only you can
• Your child's sport performance says nothing about you
• Self-worth, not discipline, is the root of habit failure

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How Paralympian Ezra Frech turned disability into elite athletic purpose

The Daily Stoic December 17, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Motivation 7

• Top Paralympians live paycheck to paycheck — the sport doesn't pay
• Disability is not an obstacle to overcome; it's the source of extraordinary drive
• Winning gold is a prerequisite for changing how the world sees disability

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