The Daily Stoic
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.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 20 minutes
- Episodes
- 2675
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
It’s Tempting To Tell Yourself This | All For One, One For All
We can flatter ourselves that we’re essential, that we’re one of the good guys, that we’re preventing things from being worse. But are we? Or is that just what we want to believe?
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00:09:30 |
Fri 04 Oct 2024
Will You Meet Your Moment? | Ask DS
Destiny taps each of us on the shoulder, will we be able to answer? Will we have cultivated the skills and virtues necessary to answer well? That’s what philosophy is about—preparing you for whatever…
00:14:12 |
Thu 03 Oct 2024
You Can Live Well Anywhere
If you need money and success to live well, then you’re vulnerable to things not going well.
💡 The Wealthy Stoic: A Daily Stoic Guide to Being Rich, Happy, and Free explores how stoic ideas can b…
00:03:15 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
Brigid Delaney’s Life Changing Year of Living Like a Stoic
Brigid Delaney was at a unique point in her life and found herself looking for answers around life’s deepest questions: What does it mean to be a good person? How do we stop letting the things out of…
01:29:47 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
This Doesn’t Change But You Do | The Daily Routine That Built Marcus Aurelius
So much has changed over the course of a decade…so little as well. The 10th anniversary edition of The Obstacle Is the Way has relevant and insightful lessons (including a new foreword) that Ryan cou…
00:23:05 |
Tue 01 Oct 2024
The Most Disciplined Side Wins | Practice Silence
The Stoics—just like activists—didn’t always win but they showed themselves always as worthy of winning. They showed themselves to be the most disciplined side.
🎙️ Listen to Thomas Rick’s intervi…
00:08:08 |
Mon 30 Sep 2024
The Hobby That Changed Ryan Holiday's Life
Some people travel for the food. Others for the nightlife. Some travel for work. Others travel to get away. Ryan travels for the swimming.
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00:15:40 |
Sun 29 Sep 2024
Wright Thompson on Untangling Myth from History in America
Wright Thompson grew up in the Mississippi Delta, unaware that his family farm was just 23 miles away from the barn where 14 year old Emmett Till was murdered in 1955. When writing The Barn, Wright h…
00:56:40 |
Sat 28 Sep 2024
This Is What You Do | What Will Prosperity Reveal?
We don’t have the power to bring the people we love back, but by choosing to embody the virtues of loved ones we have lost, we not only carry forward their spirit in our actions, we transform our pai…
00:10:16 |
Fri 27 Sep 2024
This Is The Most Common Obstacle | How Can We Balance Confidence and Humility?
The annoying coworker, the unreasonable client, the demanding coach, the selfish teammate, the family member who pushes all your buttons—these are constant opportunities to practice virtue.
Ask …
00:17:05 |
Thu 26 Sep 2024
Be Brave Enough To Do This
We carry our own weight in this world, we blow our own nose, as Epictetus says. It’s what’s right, it’s what’s fair, it’s our job.
💡 We designed The Daily Stoic Leadership Challenge: Ancient Wisd…
00:03:12 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Wright Thompson on Reckoning with the South’s Buried Secrets
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Junior were born in the same year. The last known widow of a Civil War veteran lived to see Barack Obama become the first African-American President. Emmett Till wou…
01:09:56 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
It’s All About How You Close | Timeless (Stoic) Habits To Transform Your Future
What matters is how we bring the show to a close, what matters is the ending we give each scene.
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00:17:30 |
Tue 24 Sep 2024
It’s How It Makes You Heal | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm
It wasn’t fun that it went sideways. It hurt that they hurt you. It took something that you can never get back. That’s life. That’s resiliency. That’s how the obstacle is the way.
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00:07:47 |
Mon 23 Sep 2024
Temper Your Ambition | A Cautionary Tale From Napoleon Bonaparte
We don't need accomplishments to feel good or be good enough. If only Napoleon had listened to his own advice.
📕 Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
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00:11:48 |
Sun 22 Sep 2024
Scott Galloway on Intergenerational Theft and Why Stoicism is Important for Young Men
Scott Galloway joins Ryan to talk about what “The Intergenerational Theft” is, why it is creating a massive problem for this next generation, and what he believes are the solutions. Scott and Ryan al…
01:04:23 |
Sat 21 Sep 2024
You’re Only Loaning This | Life Isn't A Dance
None of us own anything. Everything is constantly in flux. What we have today may be gone tomorrow.
📓 Grab your own leather bound signed edition of The Daily Stoic! Check it out at the Daily Sto…
00:08:43 |
Fri 20 Sep 2024
Can You Pull Off This Move? | How Can You Maintain Justice Without Self-Sacrificing?
A lot has happened in the 10 years since The Obstacle Is the Way came out. Ryan is a different person, a different writer, than he was back in 2014 and he was so excited to get a chance to improve an…
00:13:54 |
Thu 19 Sep 2024
Timm Chiusano on Courage, Creativity, and Finding Your Purpose in the Corporate World
Timm Chiusano was working as a creative executive at a Fortune 100 company in New York City when he decided to start posting daily videos on TikTok, documenting and sharing his appreciation for the l…
01:13:33 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
You Can Never Undo This
The truth is, nothing can undo what we do out of anger. We can’t take back what we’ve said. We can’t turn back the clock on harm we’ve inflicted or mistakes we have made.
💡 Take the first step t…
00:04:02 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
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