The Daily Stoic
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The Daily Stoic shares practical Stoic ideas and reflections for better decision-making, resilience, and everyday leadership.
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Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic strategies for controlling anger and keeping your cool
The Daily Stoic
September 5, 2025
Resilience & grit
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Mental health & wellbeing
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- 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
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Stoicism teaches us to deal with difficult people
The Daily Stoic
September 4, 2025
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.
Founder interviews
Podcast
George Raveling's greatest lessons on legacy, purpose, and service
The Daily Stoic
September 4, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Born with a 44-year life expectancy — he lived to 88.
- Keeping a journal since 1972 built a lifelong reference library.
- Serving others is the only proof of a life well spent.
Founder interviews
Podcast
What 213 days in space teaches about risk, calm, and character
The Daily Stoic
September 3, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
5
- NASA trains panic out through relentless simulation, not bravery
- The overview effect transforms some astronauts — but not all
- Challenger and Columbia failed due to human risk-management failures
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Wisdom as the foundation of all stoic virtues
The Daily Stoic
September 2, 2025
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
Resilience & grit
Podcast
A strong soul beats good luck: Stoic training for resilience
The Daily Stoic
September 1, 2025
- 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'
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Your principles are defined by what you refuse to do for money
The Daily Stoic
August 31, 2025
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.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How shamelessness, ego, and craft shape comedy and creative success
The Daily Stoic
August 30, 2025
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
Physical & cognitive performance
Podcast
Swimming as a stoic practice: water, cold, and physical limits
The Daily Stoic
August 29, 2025
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
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
What example are you setting? Leading with your own actions
The Daily Stoic
August 28, 2025
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.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Abraham Lincoln's character, leadership, and the craft of presidential biography
The Daily Stoic
August 27, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
- Lincoln refused to drop emancipation even when it threatened his re-election
- Humility paradoxically elevated Lincoln above rivals who each thought him inferior
- Great leaders are made through sustained work, not born with exceptional gifts
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic tools for accepting people and beating procrastination
The Daily Stoic
August 26, 2025
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
Six Stoic time management techniques from Seneca
The Daily Stoic
August 24, 2025
Time management
10
Productivity & habits
7
- Memento Mori: confront your mortality to clarify what deserves your time
- Value time above possessions; each minute gone is irreplaceable
- Procrastination steals the present by promising a future that may never arrive
Character, courage, and leading as if it's your last job
The Daily Stoic
August 23, 2025
Management
10
Resilience & grit
6
Relationships & family
5
- Why leaders with guaranteed tenure still refuse to use it
- Delayed integrity is permanent — 'I'll do it later' means never
- Raising kids who voluntarily spend time with you is real wealth
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Ten rules for reading better from Ryan Holiday
The Daily Stoic
August 22, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
8
- Finishing every book you start means reading fewer books overall
- A commonplace book turns reading into compounding intellectual capital
- Rereading the same book at different life stages reveals entirely new meaning