Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic self-judgment: philosophy as medicine, not a weapon
The Daily Stoic
November 11, 2025
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- Philosophy is medicine for your soul, not a weapon against others
- Marcus Aurelius's daughter died heroically; his son became a tyrant
- Certainty your soul isn't rusty is itself the rust
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic lessons: circumstances don't define you, and history repeats
The Daily Stoic
November 10, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
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- Grant sold firewood post-West Point — and refused to be ashamed
- Neither failure nor success defines you; only your character does
- Human problems are identical across 2,000 years — history is a flat circle
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Training your mind toward wonder: rhetoric, Stoicism, and self-persuasion
The Daily Stoic
November 8, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
8
Motivation
6
- Wonder and suffering both involve genuine agency — you choose which handle to grab.
- Discipline is mostly restraint, not relentless pushing — the golden mean over extremity.
- Taylor Swift rerecording her catalog is the clearest modern example of owning your soul.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
Why self-doubt and social pressure block personal progress
Brendon Burchard
November 6, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Goal setting
7
Resilience & grit
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- Self-doubt and low-standard social pressure are the only two enemies of progress.
- Past resilience you dismissed as luck is actually built character — claim it.
- A committed six-month target can produce dramatic life change for almost anyone.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Taking stoicism seriously: lessons from Stockdale and a live Q&A
The Daily Stoic
November 6, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Stockdale survived Vietnam then still wanted to go deeper into stoicism
- Discipline means restraint — pacing matters as much as pushing through
- Kids need a natural spark of interest, not a philosophy lecture
Resilience & grit
YouTube
AI Is Here, You're in Control: GaryVee on Accountability and Optimism
GaryVee
November 5, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
AI tools & automation
7
Content marketing
6
- AI already evokes emotion; denial that it replaces humans is self-delusion.
- Politicians and media manufacture fear to harvest compliance from both sides.
- Accountability plus optimism, fully owned, is the only real self-help tool.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Self-persuasion over self-discipline: using rhetoric to change yourself
The Daily Stoic
November 5, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
5
- Persuasion beats willpower — rhetoric makes hard habits feel chosen
- Start the ramp so low you're almost procrastinating, then let boredom pull you forward
- Ancient rhythmic chants (paeans) alter how your brain interprets reality
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
The Stoic distinction between fleeting power and real power
The Daily Stoic
November 4, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
7
- Wealth and status are power that can always be taken away.
- Epictetus, a slave, was freer than the courtiers flattering Nero's cobbler.
- Conquering your own wants outranks conquering the world.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic wisdom: avoiding foolishness and accepting life's hardships
The Daily Stoic
November 3, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Avoiding foolishness matters more than achieving genius.
- Ego, emotion, and superficiality are the real engines of stupidity.
- Reframe hardships as prescriptions chosen to make you better.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
The deeper meaning of "the obstacle is the way": practising virtue
The Daily Stoic
November 2, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Obstacles aren't just professional opportunities — they demand virtue.
- Courage, discipline, justice, wisdom are the real gains from adversity.
- Virtue is a craft: you get better at it by practising under pressure.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Harsh Stoic truths for daily life and self-discipline
The Daily Stoic
October 31, 2025
Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
8
- Ambition is insanity — tie happiness to your actions, not others' opinions
- You suffer more in imagination than in reality, says Seneca
- Journaling, deep reading, and daily exercise are non-negotiable Stoic practices
Resilience & grit
YouTube
Three copywriting career regrets from a 23-year veteran
Matthew Volkwyn
October 30, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Copywriting
7
Bootstrapping
5
- Refusing well-paid work for artistic purity costs years of momentum.
- Start a venture only when you have $50K you can afford to lose.
- Pursuing too many goals simultaneously guarantees progress on none.
Identity & self-belief
YouTube
How to stop being so hard on yourself
Brendon Burchard
October 30, 2025
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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- "I don't have that skill yet" beats "I suck" every time.
- Rigidity — not personality flaws — is what makes perfectionism destructive.
- Most overwhelm is a prioritisation problem, not a deep psychological cause.
Physical & cognitive performance
Podcast
Running as a daily discipline: Nick Thompson on habit, aging, and family
The Daily Stoic
October 29, 2025
Physical & cognitive performance
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Founder interviews
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Resilience & grit
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- You don't stop running because you get old — you get old because you stop.
- Thompson ran faster at 44 than in his physical prime in his 30s.
- His father had every advantage but never controlled his day — running is Thompson's answer to that.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic acceptance: wishing for what is, not what you want
The Daily Stoic
October 28, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Mental health & wellbeing
6
- True acceptance means wanting what happens, not just tolerating it.
- The Serenity Prayer and Stoicism converge on the same ancient insight.
- Epictetus's silence on injustice is a limit worth questioning.