For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com.New episodes come out every day for free. Listen 1-week early on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and to all episodes ad-free, with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.
2803 episodes transcribed“The people that history smiles most kindly upon, are the ones who just kept doing the next needed thing.” These words from Sharon McMahon re...
Being virtuous, like voting, is within our power. Whether it visibly changes the world is not. But we act because it is our duty, and that al...
Calm isn’t something we get by managing our external environment or by hoping that we luck out. This is something we create.📕 Pick up your o...
Maintaining healthy boundaries in your life requires discipline. And only through self-discipline and self-control are we capable of achievin...
Register to vote at https://vote.gov🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ry...
In just a couple of weeks, Vice President Kamala Harris or former President Donald Trump will be named the next President of the United State...
Imagine if you had the tools to be less angry, less distracted, less impulsive. Imagine if the news and social media didn’t make your blood b...
Not everyone is going to appreciate your perspective or your beliefs. By the same token, you’re not going to agree with everyone else—in your...
Adam Kinzinger was 1 of 10 Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump back in 2021 following the January 6th attack on th...
Stoicism is not a philosophy for the classroom, but a philosophy for life. You use it and it makes you better. That is, if you take it seriou...
Can we really call Marcus Aurelius a “philosopher king?” How great a Stoic was he actually?💡 We set up Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy For...
It doesn’t matter what’s happening in the world. Golden hour is there. It’s there more than once a day, weather permitting.💡 We designed The...
Marcus Aurelius' letters to his rhetoric teacher, Fronto, give us a unique look into his life and relationships. As Brigid Delaney said in he...
While we aren’t the ones to blame for the mistakes of our ancestors' pasts, we are responsible for what we do today to combat the repercussio...
Life is hard. People are not perfect. If we cannot cultivate the ability to let things be and to let them go, we’ll never get anything done....
To be a Stoic is to be a lifelong student. You don’t read the Stoics, you study them.Ask DS: What mentorship lessons did Ryan learn from Robe...
The fundamental idea of Stoicism is that we cannot control what happens to us (or the ones we love), we can only control how we respond. Juli...
If you convince yourself that nothing can be changed, that your actions don’t matter, you’re right—but you’ve also surrendered. Time and time...
By thinking, by imagining that we’ve just been given a few months to live, we too can see immediately what we should stop doing. We realize w...
Though Cicero wrote histories that praised the ethics and virtues of the Stoics, his ego and his expensive tastes got in the way of actually...
