Resilience & grit

Podcast

12 Stoic strategies for beating stress and anxiety

The Daily Stoic March 23, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 6

• Stress is a reaction to perception, not an external force acting on you.
• Practicing your worst fear in real life destroys its power over you.
• Cold showers, laughter, and memento mori are ancient tools with proven effects.

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Resilience & grit

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Comfort, scarcity, and why struggle makes life better

The Daily Stoic March 22, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 6

• Your discomfort tolerance is a fragility — or a superpower.
• The scarcity loop explains why phones feel like slot machines.
• Voluntary hardship resets gratitude and dissolves fear of loss.

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Resilience & grit

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Staying sane and grounded in a world of noise and chaos

The Daily Stoic March 21, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Identity & self-belief 8

Productivity & habits 6

• Information overload is the modern tool of control — not censorship.
• Difficult people are opportunities to practice virtue, not obstacles.
• You have the power to have no opinion — and it leads to peace.

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Resilience & grit

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Proving yourself worthy of privilege: stoic Q&A from Rotterdam

The Daily Stoic March 20, 2025

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Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 7

Productivity & habits 6

• Stoics engage by default — silence on important issues is cowardice
• Your body lies about its limits; trust the process over the feeling
• Stillness is a daily discipline, not a mental state you achieve

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Founder interviews

Podcast

Katalin Karikó on resilience, mRNA, and stoic philosophy

The Daily Stoic March 19, 2025

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Founder interviews 10

Resilience & grit 8

Identity & self-belief 7

• 40 years ignored — then her research saved millions of lives
• Love the process, not the prize: the only sustainable motivation
• Stoicism as daily practice: focus only on what you can control

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Finding inner peace without escaping your daily life

The Daily Stoic March 18, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Work-life balance 7

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• The calm you feel on vacation is available at home, anytime.
• Marcus and Epictetus: your mind is a fortress — no retreat required.
• Asking why your life feels like something to escape is the real work.

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Identity & self-belief

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Stoic beauty: your choices define you, not your appearance

The Daily Stoic March 17, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Resilience & grit 5

• You are not your looks — you are your capacity for choosing well
• Spring exposes winter's accumulated bad habits; will you change them?
• Character is controllable; what others think of you is not

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic principles for staying calm under pressure

The Daily Stoic March 16, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Management 7

Identity & self-belief 6

• Every obstacle is an opportunity to practice excellence.
• Ego — not external enemies — is the greatest threat to any leader.
• Stillness and poise are the most unbeatable weapons under pressure.

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Stoicism, Buddhism, and embracing impermanence with Young Pueblo

The Daily Stoic March 15, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 8

Resilience & grit 7

Mental health & wellbeing 6

• Everything you love exists because of change — including you
• Feeling an emotion and acting on it are not the same thing
• Enough is rarer than wealth — and you can't buy it

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Productivity & habits

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Eight Stoic strategies for decluttering your life this spring

The Daily Stoic March 14, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 6

Relationships & family 5

• You don't lack time — you lack ruthlessness about what consumes it.
• Possessions, habits, and grudges you hold silently own you.
• Daily cleansing rituals prevent the dust of life from becoming permanent grime.

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Resilience & grit

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Stoic Q&A: decluttering life and sustaining daily practice

The Daily Stoic March 13, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Productivity & habits 7

Mental health & wellbeing 5

• Ruthless elimination — not reduction — is the only fix for mental overload.
• Rigid routines create fragility; flexible practices survive any disruption.
• Stoic pessimism is optimism in disguise — it assumes you can handle anything.

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Derren Brown on Stoicism, Marcus Aurelius, and the art of living well

The Daily Stoic March 12, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

• Why Stoicism as a toolkit beats going all-in like a religion
• Meditations works because Marcus never intended anyone to read it
• Gathering resources your whole life instead of actually living

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Resilience & grit

Podcast

Stoic habits for growth: embrace discomfort and strategic empathy

The Daily Stoic March 11, 2025

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Resilience & grit 9

Relationships & family 7

Identity & self-belief 5

• Comfort makes you lazy and fragile — Sherman and the Stoics knew it
• Kennedy avoided nuclear war by modelling Khrushchev's position, not just his own
• Suspecting your own reactions first defuses conflict before it starts

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Identity & self-belief

Podcast

Finding your Cato: how a moral exemplar raises your standards

The Daily Stoic March 10, 2025

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Identity & self-belief 9

Motivation 6

• Imagining a hero watching you holds you to higher standards
• Tom Brady's greatness came from marginal daily gains, not winning
• Live well enough that others can one day use you as their Cato

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Productivity & habits

Podcast

Creating order from chaos: a framework for handling life's disorder

The Daily Stoic March 9, 2025

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Productivity & habits 9

Deep work & focus 6

Management 5

• A yellow pad and three daily tasks ended executive paralysis.
• Creating order is an ongoing battle, never a one-time fix.
• The human brain is hardwired to impose structure on chaos.

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