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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Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoicism, Socrates, and the psychology of self-knowledge
The Daily Stoic
November 23, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Deep work & focus
5
- Socrates invented cognitive therapy — 2,400 years before Beck did.
- Real power means directing yourself; everything else is a blindfolded swordsman.
- You reason 20-30% more wisely about others than about yourself.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Ego vs. confidence: the Stoic case for self-awareness over self-belief
The Daily Stoic
November 19, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- Past success trains you to ignore critics — that's how ego forms.
- Ego and self-doubt are the same trap: both are excessive self-focus.
- David beat Goliath because confidence knows its limits; ego doesn't.
Mental health & wellbeing
Podcast
Anxiety is a misuse of creativity: the Stoic practice of letting go
The Daily Stoic
November 18, 2024
Mental health & wellbeing
8
Relationships & family
6
- Anxiety is misdirected creativity — your imagination torturing you needlessly
- Treat loved ones like breakable glass: not to detach, but to be present
- Non-attachment isn't indifference — it's minimising regret while you still can
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Teaching Stoicism, Virtue Ethics, and Philosophy to Young People
The Daily Stoic
November 13, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Stoicism's tough-guy reputation is a caricature — the texts are far more universal.
- Virtue ethics demands testing principles in action, not just holding opinions.
- Stoicism is a living framework meant to be updated, not a closed canon.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Financial freedom is not real freedom: lessons from Epictetus
The Daily Stoic
November 12, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- A Roman slave became freer than emperors through philosophy
- Your energy points: spent on what's outside your control, wasted
- Having strong opinions about everything is self-imposed imprisonment
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Cato's fatal mistake and the Stoic actor's duty
The Daily Stoic
November 8, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Cato's principled suicide helped only Caesar — stay in the fight
- Your role in life is assigned; your duty is to play it well
- Quitting after a major setback harms the people who need you
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
How Marcus Aurelius avoided corruption — and what it cost him
The Daily Stoic
November 7, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Founder interviews
7
Work-life balance
6
- Virtue alone won't protect you — daily active effort does.
- Marcus survived an emperor's palace; most people wouldn't last.
- Lucrative investments that consume your time aren't actually lucrative.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Dan Jones on history, leadership, and why the past matters now
The Daily Stoic
November 6, 2024
Founder interviews
10
Management
6
Resilience & grit
5
- Without historical literacy, you're a easy mark for demagogues
- Henry V's monk-like self-discipline is a blueprint for crisis leadership
- Misinformation exploits the same podcast medium that elevated serious history
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Don't let bad times make you a bad person: Stoic advice from Seneca
The Daily Stoic
November 5, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
6
- Bad times don't remove your choice to remain decent
- Seneca's euthymia: clarity on what's yours to control
- Falling short of your ideals beats having none
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Marcus Aurelius' Meditations transformed a life and practice
The Daily Stoic
October 29, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Calm is something you create inside chaos, not despite it.
- Nothing can stop you from practicing courage, discipline, justice, wisdom.
- Writing privately for yourself — not to impress — is why Meditations endures.
Relationships & family
Podcast
Stoicism, compassion, and expanding the circle of moral concern
The Daily Stoic
October 22, 2024
Relationships & family
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Mental health & wellbeing
6
- How you treat animals and the voiceless reveals your true character.
- Cato's cruelty to animals and slaves shared the same corrupting logic.
- Expanding moral concern outward makes both the world and you better.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Cicero's cautionary tale and the stoic case for habitual honesty
The Daily Stoic
October 14, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
5
- Cicero's ego and vanity cost him influence, trust, and his life.
- Announcing honesty signals it's the exception, not your default.
- Radical candor without temperance is just an excuse to be a jerk.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Chase Jarvis on risk, time, and creative constraints
The Daily Stoic
October 12, 2024
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
- Entrepreneurs don't love risk — they systematically strip it away layer by layer.
- Defaulting to growth and scale can cost you creativity and autonomy.
- Constraints don't limit creativity — they direct and amplify it.
Relationships & family
Podcast
Memento mori: practising love and connection as a Stoic discipline
The Daily Stoic
October 7, 2024
Relationships & family
8
Mental health & wellbeing
6
- Every second spent is gone — we are already dying
- Stoic sympathia: we are all one body, not isolated islands
- If you want to be loved, love — kindness is the only formula
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Grief, meaning, and memento mori: lessons from a life spent with loss
The Daily Stoic
October 5, 2024
Resilience & grit
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Meaning — not acceptance — is the real sixth stage of grief
- Fear doesn't stop death; it stops life
- Death awareness produces more presence, not depression