Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic leadership, initiative, and why it's never too late to start

The Daily Stoic January 30, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Management 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Missing January 1st doesn't mean your year — or goals — are lost.
• Stoic 'control' thinking still leaves room for real leadership and influence.
• Aristotle's temperance: initiative as a virtue has a dangerous extreme too.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Matthew McConaughey on authenticity, parenting, and creative craft

The Daily Stoic January 29, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Relationships & family 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Being fully yourself is a competitive advantage, not just a virtue
• Specificity — not broad appeal — is what makes art universal
• Your children are your only genuinely multi-generational project

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

How to organize your life using Stoic daily habits and principles

The Daily Stoic January 28, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 6

Resilience & grit 5

• Why the Stoics journaled daily — and why sleep followed it was sweet
• Structure is not rigidity; it is the precondition for freedom
• Memento mori as a daily scheduling tool, not a morbid thought

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Stoic strategies for change and present-moment focus

The Daily Stoic January 27, 2025

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Deep work & focus 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Seneca's 'fickleness' means willingness to change — not weakness.
• Quitting on the year in January is premature; restart now.
• Marcus Aurelius: tackle today's task fully, future problems later.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Entrepreneurship, social media, and the grit most people lack

GaryVee January 24, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Social media 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Live social shopping will dominate For You pages within two years
• Entrepreneurship is micro losses daily, macro wins occasionally — not glamour
• Authentic brand story beats any marketing tactic in commoditised markets

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Returning to good habits: Stoic wisdom on resilience and identity

The Daily Stoic January 23, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Productivity & habits 5

• The Stoic path back is always open — just rejoin the rhythm
• Seneca: conform outwardly, but let your inner life be entirely different
• Stoics in exile kept helping others — formative setbacks build future capacity

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Burnout, recovery, and energy management with Adam Grant

How I Work January 22, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 8

Management 6

• Knowing burnout theory does not protect you from experiencing it
• Frequent short breaks restore more than rare long holidays
• Burnout is often structural — redesign the role, not just the person

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

15 Stoic life lessons for young people seeking success

The Daily Stoic January 21, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Good character is the real Stoic success strategy, not tactics.
• Ego and anxiety are the likeliest things to derail early promise.
• Optimise for learning over pay — rooms and lessons compound fastest.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

A few seconds of courage: the MLK arrest that decided a presidency

The Daily Stoic January 20, 2025

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Resilience & grit 7

• Nixon's silence vs Kennedy's two calls decided the 1960 election.
• Courage isn't a trait — it's a decision made in seconds.
• The failure to act is the only guaranteed outcome of fear.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoic practice: compassion for the misled and daily self-improvement

The Daily Stoic January 20, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Political opponents deserve the same compassion as cult victims.
• Seneca's daily self-review turns lived experience into real growth.
• Small daily improvements compound into fundamental life change.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Jimmy Carter as a model of Stoic justice and virtue

The Daily Stoic January 19, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

• Doing the right thing only counts when it costs you something.
• Carter paid real prices — debt, defeat, ridicule — for his principles.
• Rickover's question 'Why not the best?' haunted and guided his entire life.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Bob Bowman on coaching champions: discipline, mastery, and balance

The Daily Stoic January 18, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Management 7

Deep work & focus 5

• Six years of no days off created Phelps' edge — and nearly broke him.
• Mastery orientation sustains long careers; chasing validation destroys them.
• The best athletes actively seek coaching — coachability separates the greats.

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Resilience & grit

YouTube

Twenty rules for building wealth and a life worth living

Dan Martell January 14, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Goal setting 8

Identity & self-belief 7

• The results you want are hidden in the work you keep avoiding
• Consistency for a thousand days beats talent and shortcuts every time
• Your success triggers others — stay close to people who want more for you

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Seven Stoic mantras to live by

The Daily Stoic January 14, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 6

Identity & self-belief 5

• Why negative visualisation is more useful than positive thinking
• Character is fate: bad values produce bad outcomes, always
• Daily journaling was Marcus Aurelius's sharpening tool—not ours

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

The world doesn't care about your dreams — stoic morning practice

The Daily Stoic January 13, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 8

• Marcus Aurelius got chaos instead of peace — and became great
• The world owes you nothing; your response is the only variable
• Stoic journaling turns passive consumption into active self-examination

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