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
Rest, then train: the Stoic case for recovery and hard discipline
The Daily Stoic
September 4, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Deep work & focus
7
Productivity & habits
6
- Overwork is selfish — it destroys your future capacity for others
- Seneca's monthly hardship practice builds resilience before adversity strikes
- Physical training transfers directly to mental resistance against hard work
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Christina Pazsitzky on presence, mortality, and the creative life
The Daily Stoic
August 26, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
7
Founder interviews
6
- Why every rung of success delivers the same hollow 'is that all there is?'
- Stoic memento mori as a presence tool, not a downer
- Protecting your creative weirdness from people who want you normal
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Philosophy, comedy, and the examined life with Christina Pazsitzky
The Daily Stoic
August 23, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Founder interviews
7
Resilience & grit
6
- Early-career ego is fuel — then the same ego destroys what you built
- Procrastination assumes tomorrow exists; the Stoics say it doesn't
- Stoics laughed, told jokes, and one literally died laughing at his own
Resilience & grit
Podcast
All you can do is this
The Daily Stoic
August 17, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- You control effort and virtue; outcomes and others' choices you don't.
- Deserving success differs from getting it—both matter differently.
- Lead others toward growth, but accept you can't force their change.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Mental fitness, ego, and peak performance with coach Greg Harden
The Daily Stoic
August 16, 2023
Identity & self-belief
10
Resilience & grit
9
Management
5
- Mental fitness is trainable — recovery speed is what separates elite performers.
- Why your self-worth must never depend on your performance outcomes.
- Ego becomes your enemy only when it needs external validation to function.
Productivity & habits
Podcast
Austin Kleon and Ryan Holiday on creativity, parenting, and stoic virtues
The Daily Stoic
July 22, 2023
Productivity & habits
9
Deep work & focus
6
- Reading slumps are a habit problem — go back to proven authors to rebuild momentum.
- Assuming your kids are right kickstarts curiosity and dissolves pointless conflict.
- Courage, justice, and temperance each sit between two vices — virtue is optimal tension.
Identity & self-belief
Podcast
Epictetus on preserving character in any situation
The Daily Stoic
July 16, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
6
- You sell yourself at a price — know what yours is
- The purple stripe refuses to blend in, even under threat of death
- Character is built slowly; don't abandon effort for lack of genius
Founder interviews
Podcast
Casey Neistat on purpose, parenting, and creative ambition
The Daily Stoic
July 15, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Work-life balance
8
Productivity & habits
6
- Parenthood gave Neistat his ambition — obligation to provide drove everything
- Measure every commitment in bedtimes you will miss, not abstract cost
- Constraints focus energy: kids made both men more prolific, not less
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic practices: anticipating the worst and staying intellectually humble
The Daily Stoic
July 14, 2023
Resilience & grit
9
Identity & self-belief
6
- Stoics rehearsed bad outcomes so shock never paralysed them
- Early competence is dangerous — quick learners skip fundamentals
- Treat knowledge as always insufficient; there is no graduation
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Stoics build mental toughness by embracing adversity
The Daily Stoic
July 4, 2023
Resilience & grit
10
Identity & self-belief
6
- Seeking out hard things on purpose builds the muscle to handle unavoidable adversity
- Every situation has two handles — perspective is the one thing always in your control
- Courage is evidence-based, not innate; you cultivate it through repeated hard choices
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Epictetus on control, reason, and accepting what cannot be changed
The Daily Stoic
July 2, 2023
- Only reason can evaluate itself — the one faculty that truly governs.
- Your will is the only thing no tyrant, chain, or executioner can touch.
- Agrippinus condemned to exile: ate lunch, added no extra suffering.
Founder interviews
Podcast
Garland Robinette: a life of obstacle, dopamine, and creative reinvention
The Daily Stoic
July 1, 2023
Founder interviews
10
Resilience & grit
7
Deep work & focus
5
- How morphine without tapering left a Vietnam vet dopamine-addicted for 50 years
- One hero dose of psilocybin ended four decades of nightly PTSD nightmares
- Reinvention — janitor to anchor to painter — requires actively disrupting comfort
Resilience & grit
Podcast
How Stoics find balance: temperance, presence, and the golden mean
The Daily Stoic
June 27, 2023
Resilience & grit
8
Identity & self-belief
7
Motivation
5
- You only need to hold the Stoic ideal for one afternoon
- Zeno's shipwreck loss became the fortune that founded Stoicism
- Be strict with yourself; be tolerant of others' unseen struggles
Resilience & grit
Podcast
Stoic perseverance, lesser-known Stoic texts, and decision-making models
The Daily Stoic
June 22, 2023
- Cato lost but gave everything — that is itself a Stoic victory.
- Musonius Rufus and new papyrus tech may expand the Stoic canon.
- Stoic rulers had options when persecuting Christians — and didn't use them.
Brett Crozier on leadership, conscience, and the courage to act
The Daily Stoic
June 21, 2023
Culture building
8
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
- Institutions select for conformity, then demand moral independence in a crisis.
- Prioritise first, decide second — the order cannot be reversed.
- Leaders who bear the cost of their own decisions earn the right to make them.