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
Brigid Delaney on Living Like a Stoic for a Year
The Daily Stoic
October 2, 2024
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Identity & self-belief
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Founder interviews
5
- Stoicism as daily practice, not a philosophy you study once
- Anger is society's biggest problem — and Stoicism's clearest remedy
- Why accepting what you can't control still demands political action
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Maintaining justice without self-sacrifice: a Stoic framework
The Daily Stoic
September 19, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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- Taylor Swift turned a stolen catalogue into a billion-dollar comeback.
- Virtue is a midpoint — giving everything away is itself a vice.
- The only measure of effort: did you actually do your best today?
Founder interviews
Podcast
Francis Ford Coppola on philosophy, ancient Rome, and creative legacy
The Daily Stoic
September 14, 2024
Founder interviews
7
Resilience & grit
6
- Coppola reads everything to steal from it, not rest from it
- Marcus Aurelius helped him grieve his wife by emulating her
- Epicureanism, not Stoicism, underpins the American pursuit of happiness
Long-term planning
Podcast
Risk, Intuition, and the Edge Between Prudence and Boldness
The Daily Stoic
September 11, 2024
Long-term planning
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Resilience & grit
6
- Winner's tilt after success is as dangerous as tilt after losses.
- Intuition is powerful — but only when you have genuine experience to draw on.
- Being right about one contrarian bet can corrupt your judgment permanently.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoicism is not dark: Marcus Aurelius on duty, joy, and action
The Daily Stoic
September 10, 2024
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Motivation
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- Stoicism is a joyful, empowering philosophy — not cold or depressing.
- Happiness ensues from serving others, not from pursuing pleasure.
- Stop booing the situation; do the thing you actually control.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Always try to do it the hard way
The Daily Stoic
September 8, 2024
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Productivity & habits
6
- Growth comes from deliberately choosing the harder path over comfort.
- Small daily choices—walking farther, hard conversations—compound into capability.
- Deep preparation and modeling challenge teach resilience to yourself and others.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Stoic philosophy across time: knowing yourself and finding balance
The Daily Stoic
September 5, 2024
Identity & self-belief
8
Work-life balance
7
Mental health & wellbeing
5
- Stoicism was already ancient when Marcus Aurelius practiced it
- Marcus and Epictetus reached the same wisdom from opposite ends of society
- Work-life balance is perpetual recalibration, not a fixed achievement
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Rest and hard training: two Stoic duties for a sustainable life
The Daily Stoic
September 2, 2024
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Productivity & habits
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- Overwork is selfish — it robs the world of your later, better output.
- Stoics trained in deliberately harsh conditions to build resilience before crisis hit.
- Pushing through discomfort in workouts builds the muscle that overrides all resistance.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
50 Stoic Truths to Transform Your Life
The Daily Stoic
August 25, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
8
Goal setting
5
- Harsh truths act as medicine for growth, requiring you embrace discomfort.
- Your response to events matters more than the events themselves.
- Success comes from controlling yourself, not from external validation.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How coach Buzz Williams thinks about consistency, control, and the everyday person
The Daily Stoic
August 17, 2024
Resilience & grit
9
Productivity & habits
7
Management
5
- Obsessing over outcomes actively makes you worse at the work.
- A leader's emotional stability is a structural competitive advantage.
- The everyday person shows up identically after a loss or a championship.
Resilience & grit
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Anything can be an advantage: converting obstacles into strength
The Daily Stoic
August 16, 2024
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9
Identity & self-belief
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- Stoicism demands you hit your marks even with a broken heart
- Tony Hawk's physical limitation accidentally revolutionised skateboarding
- Constraints push you toward skills you'd never otherwise develop
Coach Buzz Williams on mentorship, distraction, and anticipatory leadership
The Daily Stoic
August 14, 2024
Management
9
Work-life balance
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Reactive leaders stay in tactical hell — anticipation is the real job.
- Distraction is the greatest tactic of failure, not a minor inconvenience.
- Keeping small promises to others is how you keep promises to yourself.
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stick with the facts: the stoic case against catastrophising
The Daily Stoic
August 9, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
6
- Labels mean nothing — stoic identity is proved through action alone.
- Marcus Aurelius: never add interpretation beyond the initial impression.
- Catastrophising is optional suffering; facts reveal themselves in time.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Stoic practice: finding small wins and accepting impermanence
The Daily Stoic
August 5, 2024
Productivity & habits
8
Resilience & grit
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- Death keeps happening whether we notice it or not.
- Zeno and Marcus both rejected epic wins in favour of daily steps.
- Showing up and doing the work is how manuscripts — and lives — get built.
The 300 Spartans and the courage that comes from love
The Daily Stoic
August 4, 2024
Origin stories
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Resilience & grit
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- 300 Spartans held a mountain pass to save Western civilization
- The opposite of fear is love, not fearlessness or bravery
- True heroism is selfless sacrifice for strangers and future generations