Resilience & grit

Podcast

Choosing your response: stoic lessons on the second arrow and consequences

The Daily Stoic October 27, 2025

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• The harm you add to misfortune is always a choice you make.
• Seneca's fatal bargain: tutoring Nero ended with the student killing the teacher.
• Stoic failures teach as much as Stoic philosophy.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Ryan Holiday and his agent Steve Hanselman on building the Stoic Virtues series

The Daily Stoic October 26, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 6

Founder interviews 5

• Believing you possess wisdom is the surest sign you do not.
• The four Stoic virtues are inseparable — courage without justice is hollow.
• An agent's Harvard Greek and Latin skills made the Daily Stoic possible.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Seven stoic lessons on how to keep going

The Daily Stoic October 26, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Perseverance means maintaining virtue while responding rationally to hardship.
• Accept your fate and embrace struggle as proof of your true character.
• Action and immediate response reclaim control; procrastination hands it to fate.

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Why ego is fear: self-confidence, candor, and the mindset to win

GaryVee October 24, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

Communication 5

• Ego is just fear in disguise — confident people don't need it.
• Kind candor one-on-one was GaryVee's blind spot for 25 years.
• Your algorithm reflects you — one hour can reset it entirely.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic tools for staying calm in chaotic, triggering times

The Daily Stoic October 24, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 5

• Doom scrolling changes your mood, not the world — stop.
• No one can make you angry; you choose to take offense.
• Stoicism means less destructive emotion, not zero emotion.

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Productivity & habits

YouTube

How to stop feeling stuck by naming problems accurately

Brendon Burchard October 23, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Globalising a stuck paragraph into 'writer's block' keeps you stuck longer.
• Perfectionism and procrastination share roots: inadequacy and uncertainty respectively.
• Self-loathing — not low self-esteem — is where progress becomes nearly impossible.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Happiness and wisdom are the same thing, and both take work

The Daily Stoic October 23, 2025

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• Why Elon Musk's $500B net worth couldn't buy him happiness
• Stoic happiness is stillness and contentment, not pleasure
• Ego is bad fuel — it clouds perception and makes hard things harder

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Overcoming inner resistance: Steven Pressfield on the war of art

Andrew Huberman October 20, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Deep work & focus 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Fear of a project is proof it's the one you should do.
• Turning pro is a free mindset shift — amateurs feel, professionals do.
• Suppressed creative energy turns malignant if you never answer your calling.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

The good life pivots on virtue, not wandering

The Daily Stoic October 20, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Wisdom is cultivated through failure and suffering, never inherited
• The four cardinal virtues are the hinge of a meaningful life
• Your actions — not your questions — are the answer to meaning

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How smart people make themselves foolish

The Daily Stoic October 19, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Communication 6

• A full ego makes it impossible to learn anything new.
• Refusing trusted advisors destroyed Nero and Commodus alike.
• Your information diet shapes your grasp on reality.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic resilience: catching life's curveballs and responding well

The Daily Stoic October 16, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 5

• Resilience is adaptation and response, not toughness or endurance.
• Your opinion about events — not the events — causes suffering.
• Life is a brief flash; the Stoic answer is to make it count.

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Motivation

Podcast

Why you regret inaction more than failure, with Daniel Pink

The Daily Stoic October 16, 2025

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Motivation 8

Resilience & grit 5

• Inaction regrets outnumber action regrets three to one by your fifties.
• 26,000 regrets from 134 countries reveal near-universal human wants.
• You're far more likely to regret not starting than failing after you tried.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Stop playing it safe: betting on yourself when fear holds you back

GaryVee October 15, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Social media 6

Prospecting & outreach 5

• A $699-per-job garage business with no competition — quit your day job
• The security you want already exists: you can always get another job
• A pandemic loss is not proof you can't win — stop carrying it that way

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Pete Holmes on laughter, presence, and redefining success

The Daily Stoic October 11, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Radical compassion: if you were someone else entirely, you'd be them.
• Redefine winning as a race only you can run — and win.
• The Stoic who died laughing at his own joke about a donkey.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic lessons from the 300 Spartans at Thermopylae

The Daily Stoic October 10, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Communication 5

• Emotional reactions cost you more than you can afford to lose
• 300 Spartans held a million-strong army for a week through moral superiority
• The opposite of fear is love — for others, for ideas, for freedom

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