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.
2465 episodes transcribed"On the surface, Cicero appears the perfect Stoic. He studied with all the right teachers. He served in office for decades. He was frien...
"It’d be wonderful if everyone could agree on some very basic things. Like, you can’t use racial slurs. And no, you shouldn’t judge a pe...
"There are lots of things you should be doing today. Your journaling. Your reading. Taking care of your work, of your children or family...
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with author and former NFL player Martellus Bennett about the clarifying effects that the COVID-19...
"It was Seneca who told us how to learn from history and literature. Ignore the facts and figures, he said, focus on the moral lessons....
"You want it, don’t you?That 'I told you so.' That 'Thank You.' That recognition for being first, or being better, o...
In today's Sunday Podcast, Ryan talks about five quotes from Seneca, one of the three founding fathers of Stoicism and a famous writer a...
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with lacrosse star Paul Rabil about the mental obstacles that come with being a pro athlete, the e...
"Never underestimate the ability of human beings to focus on the wrong thing. Think about the number of people this past summer who—as t...
"The Stoics were hard on themselves. No question about it. They knew what was right and they insisted on holding themselves to that. The...
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with his editor Niki Papadopoulous about their long career together, from the origins of The Obsta...
"You’ve been kicked around by life, that’s true. Where other people had it easy, you’ve had to struggle. You didn’t get into the college...
"For most of history, we’ve gotten it precisely wrong. We have given far too much attention to what philosophers have thought or written...
"People think they are too important, the stakes of their work are too high, that there is not a minute to lose. So they never relax. Th...
In today's Sunday Podcast, Ryan talks about how to apply Stoicism, and the difference between not caring at all and only caring about wh...
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Anne Applebaum (Gulag: A History, Red Famine: St...
"It’s increasingly hard to deny that we’re facing indisputably massive problems with ever growing threats to planetary health. Scientist...
"As the pandemic has dragged on, you’ve probably found yourself asking one question, over and over again, to anyone who will listen—even...
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan and author (Extreme Ownership, Discipline Equals Freedom) and podcaster Jocko Willink talk about maintai...
"Marcus Aurelius was wealthy on a scale you cannot even imagine. Seneca too. These were men with enormous fortunes… and control of imper...
