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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Founder interviews
Podcast
George Raveling on legacy, service, and defying the odds
The Daily Stoic
March 8, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Management
5
- Coaching is giving kids back better than you found them.
- Jordan trusted Raveling more than almost anyone — and never broke it.
- At 87, the fourth quarter: die on empty, serve until the buzzer.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic lessons from Gladiator: Marcus Aurelius, ambition, and self-reliance
The Daily Stoic
March 7, 2025
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
7
- Why ambition without virtue is a fatal flaw, not a virtue
- Perception is a choice: you pick the angle on any situation
- Real strength needs no sword — self-reliance cannot be disarmed
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How to keep hope alive: small acts, Stoic critiques, and when to quit
The Daily Stoic
March 6, 2025
- One persistent phone call pulled an NBA player back from suicide
- Stoicism has real flaws: era bias, individual mistakes, no collective action toolkit
- Quitting a hand is not quitting the game — know the difference
Founder interviews
Podcast
George Raveling: defying the odds and changing basketball forever
The Daily Stoic
March 5, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Business operating systems
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Specialise in what others neglect — rebounding earned Raveling everything.
- Born when Black men's life expectancy was 44; he's now 87.
- Built Nike's entire global basketball operation from scratch at age 62.
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
What expensive things really cost you
The Daily Stoic
March 4, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
7
- Possessions cost more than their price — anxiety is the real fee.
- Trying to keep things pristine destroys happiness and relationships.
- The Stoics' fix: accept entropy, own less, worry less.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Amor Fati and the stoic case for personal integration
The Daily Stoic
March 3, 2025
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Adversity doesn't just cost you — it unlocks hidden capacity
- Living as two unaligned selves quietly tears you apart
- Busyness is how we avoid the painful work of integration
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
Seneca on stepping back from worldly ambition
The Daily Stoic
March 2, 2025
Mental health & wellbeing
8
Relationships & family
7
- Why chasing status guarantees you'll never have enough
- Prosperity exposes you to others' greed, not freedom
- Real friendship is impossible inside the machinery of power
Founder interviews
Podcast
John Vaillant on resilience, creative destruction, and nature's wisdom
The Daily Stoic
March 1, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
9
Deep work & focus
6
- Fire unlocks seeds sealed in resin — destruction enables the next generation.
- Suppressing change accumulates pressure; the delayed reckoning is always worse.
- Seal your success internally before publishing; everything after is a bonus.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
How to journal like a stoic philosopher
The Daily Stoic
February 28, 2025
Productivity & habits
9
Resilience & grit
5
- Marcus Aurelius journaled privately — meditations was never meant for you
- One sentence a day beats waiting for the perfect journal or habit
- Repetition is the method, not a flaw — returning to the same struggles is the practice
Founder interviews
Podcast
Ernest Green on courage, integration, and the long arc of change
The Daily Stoic
February 28, 2025
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
Relationships & family
5
- If they fought that hard to exclude you, it must be worth having
- Racism wasn't just immoral — it was economically self-defeating
- Progress needs active optimism, not symbolic gestures
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Treating every day as bonus time: a stoic practice
The Daily Stoic
February 27, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
- Why you don't need a near-death experience to wake up
- Adversity reveals capacity — stoics pity the untested
- Journaling is how leaders debrief themselves when no one else will
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Austin Kleon on creativity, hobbies, and staying sane as an artist
The Daily Stoic
February 26, 2025
Identity & self-belief
8
Resilience & grit
6
- The doing is always in your control — the reception never is
- Ambition comes from a hole; solving hard problems won't fill it
- AI rewards the well-read and destroys everyone else
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Memento mori: act now, legacy is smoke and dust
The Daily Stoic
February 25, 2025
- Tomorrow is not guaranteed — act on what matters today.
- Alexander the Great was buried in the same ground as his mule driver.
- Anger and obsession fuel success that turns to ash anyway.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic strategies for navigating four years of uncertainty
The Daily Stoic
February 23, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Deep work & focus
6
- Chaos is the historical norm — preparation beats escape plans
- Old books outlast breaking news for durable wisdom
- Your job, character, and duty remain constant regardless of who governs
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Randy Blythe on mortality, sobriety, and conquering the tortured artist myth
The Daily Stoic
February 22, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
- The tortured artist myth produces addiction, not better work
- Czech prison taught Blythe to spot which problems are real luxuries
- Mortality is the finite game that makes each day matter