Physical & cognitive performance

Podcast

Swimming as a stoic practice: water, cold, and physical limits

The Daily Stoic August 29, 2025

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Physical & cognitive performance 8

Resilience & grit 7

• Anger never burns itself out — it just finds a new target
• Cold plunges build mental discipline, not just physical health
• We are dying every moment — how you spend time is how you spend life

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Why most people lack motivation and how to rebuild it

Brendon Burchard August 28, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Motivation 9

Resilience & grit 5

• Not knowing your role in life kills motivation before tasks even begin.
• Daily attention to goals is a trainable muscle — scrolling destroys it.
• Your mood over the last 72 hours is measurable, manageable, and not random.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

What example are you setting? Leading with your own actions

The Daily Stoic August 28, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Criticising leaders while making the same compromises is hypocrisy.
• A walk or journal pause prevents acting on raw emotion.
• Stoicism is a practice to study daily, not a finish line.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

How to build lasting discipline using the discipline triangle

Dan Martell August 26, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Goal setting 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Discipline is a system — remove one part and it collapses
• You do 10x more for others than yourself — use it
• Confidence is built from kept promises, not motivation

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic tools for accepting people and beating procrastination

The Daily Stoic August 26, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 8

Identity & self-belief 5

• Being surprised by human flaws gives others power over you
• Procrastination is arrogance — it assumes tomorrow is guaranteed
• The Stoic move: act now, stay steady, control only yourself

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Three ancient Stoic secrets for self-knowledge, moderation, and wisdom

The Daily Stoic August 21, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 8

Goal setting 6

• The three Delphic maxims are the operating system beneath Stoic practice
• Break overwhelming projects into minimum daily chunks to sustain momentum
• True contentment means running your own race, ignoring external metrics

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic tools for breaking the cycle of reaction and future anxiety

The Daily Stoic August 19, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Mental health & wellbeing 7

• Reacting without pausing costs more than the trigger ever did
• Hope and fear are the same trap — both surrender the present
• Stoic indifference means stability, not giving up

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Ryan Holiday runs the original Marathon from Marathon to Athens

The Daily Stoic August 15, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Physical & cognitive performance 8

Founder interviews 7

• Grant freed a slave while broke — right timing never comes
• Discipline without wisdom leaves you sunstroked in an Olympic stadium
• Endurance feats give you proof you don't quit when life demands it

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Inner scorecard: seeking approval only from yourself

The Daily Stoic August 14, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 8

Motivation 6

• Public praise and criticism are equally meaningless — be your own witness
• Cato's inflexibility enabled Caesar's rise; tradition differs from convention
• Writer vs. author ambition: control craft, not how work is received

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Pause before reacting and ask if it's necessary

The Daily Stoic August 12, 2025

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Productivity & habits 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Reciting the alphabet before reacting is ancient anger management that works.
• Most of what you do, say, and think is unnecessary — audit it.
• Doing less, done well, creates more tranquility than doing more poorly.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic lessons from a day when everything went wrong

The Daily Stoic August 10, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Deep work & focus 5

• How to give a 40-minute talk with no slides and no shower
• Dead time vs. alive time: every delay is a choice you make
• Why the worst travel day became one of his favourite memories

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Epictetus: Stoic freedom through the dichotomy of control

The Daily Stoic August 8, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Case studies 6

• A slave who had his leg broken became Rome's most influential philosopher
• Control your judgments, not events — you decide your emotional response
• Stockdale survived seven years of torture by applying Epictetus in a POW camp

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Productivity & habits

YouTube

Three daily practices to build a stronger mindset

Brendon Burchard August 7, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Resilience & grit 7

• You don't have a bad mindset — you lack conscious daily aims.
• Practices must be continuously improved, not just repeated as habits.
• Resilience is a trainable speed — get back in the game faster.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Jiro Ono: mastery through lifelong obsession with craft

Founders August 4, 2025

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 8

Resilience & grit 7

• Competence is the only safe harbour — skill no one can take from you
• Tens of thousands of experiments, decade after decade, beat talent
• Radical simplicity: one thing, every detail perfect, no shortcuts

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic resilience: no blame, no resentment, just focus

The Daily Stoic August 4, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Suffering doesn't just test you — it builds new capability.
• Mandela's secret weapon in prison was refusing to let go of dignity.
• What you do with resentment after hardship defines your character.

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