The small, deliberate acts of journaling, reading, and meditating—these are not just habits but rituals that fortify the soul and create the steady hand we reach for when everything else falters. 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ Protect your Daily Stoic Journal from the wear and tear of everyday use with the Leather Cover : https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcas...
Dec 10, 2024•21 min•Ep. 2359
The definition of insanity, they say, is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. What could this year be if you finally lived up to your potential? Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge | 3 weeks of ALL-NEW, actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy, to help you create a better life, and a new you in 2025. Why 3 weeks? Because it takes human beings 21 days to build new habits and skills, to ...
Dec 09, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2358
Stoicism and Iron Maiden may seem like an unlikely duo, but there is a surprising number of philosophical lessons the heavy metal band has taught Ryan Holiday. 🎙️ Listen to Ryan’s recap of taking his son to Iron Maiden on the Daily Dad podcast: Apple Podcasts & Spotify ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic ...
Dec 08, 2024•24 min•Ep. 2349
While women have made incredible strides over the past few decades, men have found themselves stuck in a tornado of confusion and disinformation around what masculinity means. Today, Ryan talks with Richard Reeves, author of Of Boys and Men and President of the American Institute for Boys and Men, about why helping one gender won’t hurt the other, how the educational system is failing men, and what the biggest misunderstandings are about gender dynamics. Richard Reeves is author of Of Boys and M...
Dec 07, 2024•56 min•Ep. 2348
The more you are content with your surroundings, whatever they are, the more power you have. 📕 We’re excited to announce that we’ve put together a special leatherbound edition of The Daily Dad just in time for the holidays! Check it out at dailydad.com/leather 🎙️ Listen to the Daily Dad podcast: Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Dad email: DailyDad.com 📱 Follow Daily Dad: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , YouTube ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sig...
Dec 06, 2024•10 min•Ep. 2355
It’s not about abundance. It’s about nourishment, inspiration, guidance, reassurance, clarity. Check out AJ Jacobs' podcast The Puzzler ! 🎙️ Listen to AJ Jacobs' FULL interview | Apple Podcasts & Spotify Pick up a signed copy of AJ Jacobs’ book, The Year of Living Constitutionally at The Painted Porch Follow AJ Jacobs on Instagram @AJJacobsInc and X @AJJacobs . 🗓️ The Page-A-Day Calendar is featured in our 2024 Daily Stoic Gift Guide , where you’ll find the perfect gift for the Stoic in yo...
Dec 05, 2024•14 min•Ep. 2354
The First Step Act in 2018 included provisions for non-violent federal inmates to petition for early release or reductions in their sentences. How to determine whether to grant or deny those requests is what U.S. District Court Judge Frederic Block explores in his new book, A Second Chance , which features his experiences with six prisoners who came to him asking for their release. Judge Frederic Block talks to Ryan on today’s episode about how he morally views his role as a judge, why the First...
Dec 04, 2024•59 min•Ep. 2347
A Stoic will flip-flop…if the facts demand it. A Stoic will give up…if they’ve been going the wrong direction. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📱 Follow us: Instagram , Twitter , YouTube , TikTok , and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and Califor...
Dec 04, 2024•2 min•Ep. 2353
Find ways to be of service. Find ways to pay forward the acts of charity and grace that we would not be here without. Locate a blood bank near you: redcrossblood.org 🎥 Watch Sebastian Junger's interview on the Daily Stoic Podcast YouTube Channel 📚 Check out Sebastian Junger’s books at The Painted Porch | https://www.thepaintedporch.com 🪙 We are the creators of our anxiety. Which means we can also be the ones to do something about it. Gain a powerful tool in your fight against anxiety and get ...
Dec 03, 2024•20 min•Ep. 2352
The great fortune of Marcus Aurelius' life, he says at one point in Meditations , is not just that he himself has never known serious want, it’s that he’s been lucky enough to be able to help so many people. Rather than give in to the materialism and selfishness of Cyber Monday, we’re teaming with Feeding America to contribute to something larger than ourselves. Help us reach our goal of feeding THREE MILLION people, every $1 donated is at least 10 meals. Donate at dailystoic.com/feeding If you ...
Dec 02, 2024•12 min•Ep. 2350
Those of us who have been blessed—whether it be love, time, or resources—have an opportunity and responsibility to share it with others. The more we give, the more we will receive. Join us in our annual Daily Stoic fundraiser for Feeding America ! Every year instead of contributing to the corporate indulgence of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we encourage our listeners to make a donation. Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals, just head over to dailystoic.com/feed . 📕 Grab a signed c...
Dec 01, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2341
There have been few changes and additions to the United States Constitution since it was ratified in 1788, despite life being wildly different now a few centuries later. To really put the document into a modern perspective, author AJ Jacobs decided to literally live by the Constitution for a full year and documented the experience in his new book The Year of Living Constitutionally . In today’s episode, AJ spoke with Ryan about his inspiration for the book, the contradictions of the Founding Fat...
Nov 30, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 2338
While some of us sit here with stomachs filled with as many Thanksgiving foods as we could manage, there are those feeling the rumblings of an empty stomach. According to Feeding America , 1 in 7 people in the United States face hunger today, and 1 in 5 are children. Join us in making a small dent in a big problem at dailystoic.com/feeding This year we are personally putting up the first $30,000, with our overall goal to raise $300,000. Every dollar we raise provides 10 meals, so if we hit our g...
Nov 29, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2346
As you gather around your family and friends this Thanksgiving, of course, appreciate it and give thanks for all the obvious and bountiful gifts that moment presents. Just make sure that as you go back to your everyday, ordinary life that you make gratitude a regular part of it. Ask DS: How can we recognize what we are good at? We all have egos, what can we do to keep it in check? + more! Feeding America | Every year instead of contributing to the corporate indulgence of Black Friday and Cyber M...
Nov 28, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2345
Every year instead of contributing to the corporate indulgence of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, we encourage our listeners to make a donation. Every $1 donated helps provide at least 10 meals. It only takes a little to make a big difference. We donated the first $30,000, and we’d like your help in reaching our goal of $300,000. If we hit that goal of $300,000, it would provide over 3 MILLION meals for families across the country. Just head over to dailystoic.com/feed and together we can make a ...
Nov 27, 2024•38 min•Ep. 2336
When we do good, we don’t need to ask for more, because practicing virtue is its own profound return. 📿 Get your own Four Virtues Pendant to wear so you can feel its weight and stick to your principles in every situation, no matter the proverbial bricks thrown your way: https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these ...
Nov 27, 2024•4 min•Ep. 2344
It’s weird. It’s unnatural. It’s not how you’d like things to be. But so what? Welcome to life. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📱 Follow us: Instagram , Twitter , YouTube , TikTok , and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Not...
Nov 26, 2024•12 min•Ep. 2343
Eternal fame doesn’t even last. So what should we prize instead? 📕 Pick up your own Premium Leather Edition of Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation) at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📓 Grab a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get...
Nov 25, 2024•9 min•Ep. 2342
Forget goals. Be Every Day. 🎥 Watch Coach Buzz Williams ' interview on YouTube ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📱 Follow us: Instagram , Twitter , YouTube , TikTok , and Facebook See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://a...
Nov 24, 2024•16 min•Ep. 2330
Stoicism is no different than working out or journaling—it is a daily practice that we lean on to overcome the obstacles we face every day. As a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist and trainer, Donald Robertson has given readers a unique perspective on the benefits of applying ancient philosophy to our everyday lives in his work, including his recent book How To Think Like Socrates . Today, Donald and Ryan continue their conversation about cognitive flexibility, what Socrates and the Stoics tea...
Nov 23, 2024•42 min•Ep. 2328
The point of contemplating this unthinkable reality isn’t morbid, it’s purposeful. 🎙️ Listen to Martha Nussbaum's interview on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 🎥 Watch Francis Ford Coppola’s interview on YouTube 🎙️ Listen to David Kessler's interview on the Daily Stoic | Apple Podcasts & Spotify 📚 Grab signed copies of Finding Meaning and the Finding Meaning Workbook by David Kessler at The Painted Porch https://www.thepaintedporch.com/ 🪙 We have a collection of items in t...
Nov 22, 2024•10 min•Ep. 2340
They can hate you, they can send you away, they can mock you or even kill you, but no one can take away those principles. Ask DS: Is Stoicism considered "self-help"? How can Stoicism be incorporated in daily life? + More! ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📱 Follow us: In...
Nov 21, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2339
Pain and suffering and loss are a part of life. It was a part of life for the rich and powerful Stoics like Marcus and Seneca, it was a part of life for the powerless like Epictetus, and it's a part of life today. ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📱 Follow us: Instagram ...
Nov 20, 2024•2 min•Ep. 2337
It’s easy to forget that the Stoics, Socrates, and other ancient philosophers were just like us—human and therefore imperfect. But in his new book How To Think Like Socrates , author Donald Robertson peels back the mythology around the ancient philosopher and shows how we can apply his wisdom in modern times. Donald returned to the Daily Stoic podcast to talk with Ryan about Socrates’ fascinating life, what his flaws were, and his enduring influence on the Stoics. Donald is a writer, cognitive-b...
Nov 20, 2024•42 min•Ep. 2327
You can’t be a student of the Stoics without reading the Stoics. Books mentioned: Letters From A Stoic by Seneca Hardship and Happiness (The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca) by Seneca How To Keep Your Cool by Seneca On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Seneca How To Die by Seneca The Enchiridion by Epictetus Discourses by Epictetus That One Should Disdain Hardships by Musonius Rufus Call Sign Chaos by Jim Mattis 📕 Pick up your own Premium Leather Edition o...
Nov 19, 2024•14 min•Ep. 2332
You have been given an incredibly powerful too—this brain and imagination of yours. We have to direct these resources properly. 🪙 Gain a powerful tool in your fight against anxiety and get the Daily Stoic Anxiety Coin today! https://store.dailystoic.com/ 📓 Pick up a signed edition of The Daily Stoic Journal: 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on The Art of Living : https://store.dailystoic.com/ ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https:...
Nov 18, 2024•11 min•Ep. 2331
Tune in for an exclusive sneak peak into what Ryan talks about in his MasterClass, Using Ancient Wisdom to Solve Modern Problems . The first course was just released and the rest of the MasterClass will drop in four courses over the next couple of weeks. Head to dailystoic.com/masterclass to find those and learn more about the course today! ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, ...
Nov 17, 2024•13 min•Ep. 2335
With over 40 documentaries under his belt, Ken Burns is one of the most iconic filmmakers of our time. His newest documentary, which features a brand-new filmmaking style from the director, explores the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci and marks the first non-American subject in any of his films. On today’s episode, Ken talks with Ryan about the significance of Stoicism among the Founders, the complexities of historical figures like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, plus the inspiring le...
Nov 16, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 2324
Life doesn’t go easy on any of us. It splits us in two…and half will have to do. 📓 Grab your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic ! Check it out at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/ 🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour ✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail 🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, m...
Nov 15, 2024•8 min•Ep. 2329
By living philosophically, we can learn to handle anything. This isn’t easy. But this is also a foundation for true well-being, happiness, and, as seen in the lives of Marcus, Cato, and many other Stoics. Ask DS: What are the overlaps between Eastern philosophy and Stoicism? Was there a particular obstacle that Ryan experienced that led him to Stoicism? 💡 The first course of Ryan's MasterClass Using Ancient Wisdom to Solve Modern Problem s is out now! Head to dailystoic.com/masterclass 📚 Books...
Nov 14, 2024•10 min•Ep. 2334
