Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic humility, grief, reading, and navigating uncertainty

The Daily Stoic April 2, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 6

• Marcus Aurelius measured himself by honors turned down, not received
• Seneca's best writings are entirely about grief — not suppressing it
• Walking is the single best tool for thinking through uncertainty

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Your mind takes the shape of what you repeatedly think

The Daily Stoic April 1, 2026

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Productivity & habits 8

Resilience & grit 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Habitual thoughts reshape the mind the way posture reshapes the spine
• Stoic optimism lets you find good in obstacles — it doesn't conjure them away
• Marcus wrote Meditations as daily self-dyeing, not a book to read once

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoicism, perspective, and anger: lessons from Australia

The Daily Stoic March 31, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

• Distance makes alarming news look absurd — the Stoic view from above.
• Stoicism is a daily practice; stopping is like skipping the gym.
• Anger weakens you against opponents — use the levers you actually control.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic principles applied to baseball and everyday resilience

The Daily Stoic March 30, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Why obsessing over what you can't control is a resource drain
• Frank Robinson fined himself $200 after a blowout win
• Ego doesn't just annoy — it makes learning structurally impossible

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

12 Stoic remedies for when life feels heavy

The Daily Stoic March 29, 2026

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Resilience & grit 10

Productivity & habits 5

• Life is hard; stoicism offers practical tools to respond skillfully without suppressing emotions.
• Walking, self-compassion, and shared struggle rebuild resilience and community.
• Love your fate as necessary for who you're becoming, not as something to endure.

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Motivation

Podcast

How ancient philosophers from Epicurus to Frankl understood happiness and meaning

The Daily Stoic March 28, 2026

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Motivation 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Epicurean enjoyment requires people and presence, not just pleasure.
• Christianity's radical inversion: use things, love people, worship God.
• Suffering is not an obstacle to meaning — it is its source.

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Motivation

YouTube

The cynicism tax: why saying no costs more than losing

GaryVee March 27, 2026

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Motivation 10

Resilience & grit 7

Vision & mission 5

• Believing yes but letting fear say no is the worst feeling.
• Optimism and delusion are different words — cynicism weaponises the confusion.
• The upside of 40 right calls outweighs being wrong 40 times.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoic courage and rejecting the need for approval

The Daily Stoic March 27, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Ancient Stoics chose exile over compromising their values.
• Social media is engineered to exploit your need for validation.
• Doing the right thing is its own reason — approval is irrelevant.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Ancient philosophy as a practical guide to living well

The Daily Stoic March 26, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 7

Resilience & grit 5

• Why reading across philosophical schools beats staying in one tradition
• Aristotle's eudaimonia: happiness is not a feeling, it's a practice
• Choosing moral aspiration over animal impulse makes suffering meaningful

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoicism vs broicism: what the manosphere gets wrong

The Daily Stoic March 25, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Broicism keeps courage and discipline but quietly drops justice.
• Marcus Aurelius used 'common good' 80 times — it's the whole point.
• Stoicism resurges when the world feels like it's falling apart.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Daily walking as a philosophical practice for mental clarity

The Daily Stoic March 24, 2026

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 8

Resilience & grit 6

• Walking daily is the single best habit for mental and emotional health.
• Kierkegaard, Wordsworth, and Marcus Aurelius all built walking into their practice.
• Location doesn't matter — airports and parking lots work as well as forests.

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Goal setting

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Follow-through beats starting: the completionist mindset

Brendon Burchard March 23, 2026

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Goal setting 9

Resilience & grit 8

Culture building 6

• Starting is for children — high performers intend to finish.
• Victor mentality: plan to complete each round, not just survive.
• Stack past completions to make every new challenge feel smaller.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoicism is lived in ordinary moments, not grand ones

The Daily Stoic March 23, 2026

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• You cannot control events — only your response to them.
• Socrates taught by living, not lecturing; philosophy must be embodied.
• Real Stoic practice happens in mundane daily moments, not crises.

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Identity & self-belief

YouTube

Why smart copywriters stay broke and dumb ones get rich

Matthew Volkwyn March 22, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 6

• Intelligence makes you resist the simple actions that actually work
• Ego stops you asking questions — and kills campaigns worth thousands
• Playing dumb and just starting beats overthinking every time

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

The portable retreat: finding peace within yourself

The Daily Stoic March 20, 2026

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• The peace you seek on holiday exists inside you now
• Seneca: waiting for the right moment is the fool's trap
• Replicate your vacation habits at home — it just takes discipline

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