Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Ego, love, and the stoic path to staying grounded

The Daily Stoic September 11, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Ego blinds you to itself — thinking you've won is the tell
• Confidence is the mean between ego and crippling self-doubt
• Pure love strips away fear — a 9/11 voicemail as proof

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Fighter pilot Michelle Curran on ego, fear, and real confidence

The Daily Stoic September 10, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Founder interviews 8

Resilience & grit 7

• Ego — not fearlessness — is what kills fighter pilots
• Imposter syndrome and arrogance are the same distortion in opposite directions
• Real confidence is evidence-based, not faith in an untested self

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Productivity & habits

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Procrastination is fear: three principles to take action now

Dan Martell September 9, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 5

• Procrastination is fear of outcome, not laziness or lack of motivation.
• Motivation follows action — waiting to feel ready keeps you stuck.
• Every delay compounds regret; treat inaction as a real financial cost.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Listener stories: how Stoicism changed three lives

The Daily Stoic September 9, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Listener interviews 7

• Paying off $50k debt and quitting bad habits through Stoic clarity
• Ego inflation broke one leader — rebuilding in silence made him whole
• Tranquility is forged within, not found in outcomes or titles

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic wisdom on shortcuts, self-sufficiency, and how to pray

The Daily Stoic September 9, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Wisdom cannot be borrowed, bought, or outsourced — only earned.
• Stop praying for outcomes; pray for strength not to need them.
• True self-sufficiency means nothing left to pray for.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic lessons on resistance and fortune from Seneca and Cato

The Daily Stoic September 8, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Cato's hopeless resistance to Caesar shaped history 1,700 years later
• Fortune is not permanent — treating success as stable invites the worst pain
• Seneca consoled his grieving mother from exile, embodying stoic self-control

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Death, consciousness, and how mortality reveals what matters

The Daily Stoic September 7, 2025

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Resilience & grit 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Science still cannot explain why subjective experience exists at all
• Every ancient culture buried the dead with tools — economically irrational unless the journey continues
• Dying people never wish for more work or wealth — only presence, love, and gratitude

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic strategies for controlling anger and keeping your cool

The Daily Stoic September 5, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• You are complicit in taking offense — your opinion creates the wound
• Anger hits hardest at those closest to you, not strangers
• Pause before acting: the gap between feeling and doing is everything

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Physical & cognitive performance

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How mindsets shape health, stress, and physical performance

Andrew Huberman September 4, 2025

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Physical & cognitive performance 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Believing a meal is indulgent causes a threefold stronger hunger-hormone drop.
• Hotel workers lost weight just by learning their job counted as exercise.
• A three-step framework turns stress into a performance resource, not a threat.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

How Stoicism teaches us to deal with difficult people

The Daily Stoic September 4, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Difficult people are chances to practice all four Stoic virtues.
• Pre-meditating on hardship keeps you clear-eyed, not pessimistic.
• Stoicism means being a good friend to yourself — not self-punishment.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Two questions to stop overthinking and reset your story

How I Work September 3, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Two questions that interrupt mental spirals before they take hold
• Childhood imprints run adult behaviour around money, risk, and relationships
• Boundaries feel dangerous because saying no once threatened survival

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Wisdom as the foundation of all stoic virtues

The Daily Stoic September 2, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Wisdom ranks above courage, discipline, and justice — here's why
• Hard winter training: deliberate discomfort builds real resilience
• Every act of overriding resistance strengthens future resistance

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

A strong soul beats good luck: Stoic training for resilience

The Daily Stoic September 1, 2025

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Resilience & grit 10

• Overwork depletes future capacity — rest is not laziness, it's maintenance
• Cato trained indifference by choosing discomfort, not enduring it by chance
• The goal: face adversity thinking 'this is exactly what I trained for'

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Your principles are defined by what you refuse to do for money

The Daily Stoic August 31, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 8

Resilience & grit 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• A principle that never cost you anything is not a principle.
• Murphy, Graham, Truman each turned down fortunes to keep their integrity.
• Financial margin — living within your means — creates moral margin to say no.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

How shamelessness, ego, and craft shape comedy and creative success

The Daily Stoic August 30, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Founder interviews 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Self-consciousness kills performance — the character never breaks
• Early success is often a trap that halts real development
• Nepo babies' edge is knowing how systems work, not connections

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