Resilience & grit

Podcast

Amor fati: loving what happens to you, good and bad

The Daily Stoic April 8, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Motivation 7

Case studies 5

• Tolerating hardship is not enough — you must love it
• Edison turned a million-dollar fire into his greatest comeback
• Jack Johnson won by smiling through hatred and hostility

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic wisdom on finding beauty and staying open to being wrong

The Daily Stoic April 7, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

• Marcus Aurelius found wonder in bread cracking, olive falling, foam on a boar's mouth.
• Arrogance and mistrust are the twin enemies Epictetus identified — both block growth.
• You cannot learn what you think you already know — ignorance hides itself.

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Relationships & family

Podcast

Ryan Holiday on gratitude, stillness, and what the pandemic forced him to see

The Daily Stoic April 6, 2025

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Relationships & family 8

Work-life balance 8

Mental health & wellbeing 7

• Forced stillness reveals what busyness permanently hides from you.
• Ryan found he did better work by eliminating travel and events entirely.
• 500 consecutive bedtimes changed his understanding of presence and priority.

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic-inspired reading list for navigating a turbulent year

The Daily Stoic April 4, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Goal setting 5

• Seventeen books chosen to prepare you for chaos, not comfort.
• Time is finite — most people surrender it without knowing.
• Freedom is internal: Epictetus, Frankl, and Eger prove it.

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic discipline: the harder half is knowing when to stop

The Daily Stoic April 3, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Indulging a passion repeatedly destroys the freedom to abstain from it.
• Tested intuition is valuable; untested gut instinct often reflects ego.
• Even Marcus Aurelius couldn't instil discipline in his own children.

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Deep work & focus

Podcast

Creativity, constraint, and hope: lessons from poet Maggie Smith

The Daily Stoic April 2, 2025

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Deep work & focus 9

Productivity & habits 6

Relationships & family 5

• Constraints don't limit creativity — they force better creative solutions.
• Ruthless self-editing matters more than inspiration; cutting is the craft.
• Cynicism is cowardice — hope is the harder, braver parenting choice.

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Resilience & grit

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How to work through hardship using Stoic practice

The Daily Stoic April 1, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Motivation 6

• Surprise amplifies suffering — Stoics trained to expect the worst.
• Marcus Aurelius faltered, wept, and kept going through resolve alone.
• Premeditatio malorum: visualising disaster makes you prepared, not pessimistic.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Two choices every morning: happiness is a decision, character is fate

The Daily Stoic March 31, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Productivity & habits 7

Identity & self-belief 5

• Choosing your mood before anything else is a stoic superpower.
• Character is fate — your training predicts your behaviour under pressure.
• You don't rise to the occasion; you fall back to your training level.

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

George Raveling on winning the day and the I Have a Dream speech

The Daily Stoic March 30, 2025

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Productivity & habits 8

Motivation 7

Founder interviews 6

• MLK's dream section was ad-libbed — Raveling asked for the manuscript on impulse
• Raveling held the original speech secretly for over 50 years
• Each morning: the only two choices are happy or very happy

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Founder interviews

Podcast

How Texas Rangers third baseman Josh Jung applies stoic philosophy

The Daily Stoic March 29, 2025

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 6

• Losing doesn't wreck you — but you still have to hate it.
• Comparison is the death of athletes: you'd have to trade the whole package.
• Corrosive fuels like anger work short-term but fracture teams over time.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic emotions and presence: lessons from Marcus Aurelius and blackberry picking

The Daily Stoic March 28, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Relationships & family 7

• Marcus Aurelius cried repeatedly — stoicism never meant suppressing emotion.
• Feeling deeply and acting rightly are not in conflict for a stoic.
• Five parenting principles hidden in a family blackberry-picking trip.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoicism, optimism, and teaching timeless lessons to children

The Daily Stoic March 27, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Stress follows you everywhere — the source is always internal
• Marcus Aurelius' brutal life proves Stoicism is radical optimism, not resignation
• Moral stories shape character more than literal facts ever could

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Josh Jung on presence, performance, and releasing mental weight

The Daily Stoic March 26, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 9

Deep work & focus 8

• Overthinking mid-performance actively destroys athletic output.
• Pre-game rituals can become fragility, not strength.
• Arriving later preserves peak energy for when it counts.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Say no to the need to impress: a stoic perspective

The Daily Stoic March 25, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 7

• Social media weaponises the ancient need for approval against you.
• Epictetus: chasing others' opinions wrecks your entire life's purpose.
• Your inner fire must be strong before obstacles can become fuel.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoicism in everyday life, not just heroic moments

The Daily Stoic March 24, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Communication 6

• Chaotic leaders flood the zone to confuse and exhaust opponents deliberately.
• Stoic self-command is the only effective counter to manufactured chaos.
• Philosophy is proven in small daily actions, not grand philosophical gestures.

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