Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

I think this idea of the Stoics is having no emotions, being emotionless, having no heart. It totally misses it.

It was actually the act of

expressing the gratitude that was a gift to him. I try to remind myself constantly that this

moment is enough. That is the path, the happiness, integrated.

Stoicism doesn't exactly come off as the happiest, lightest philosophy.

And there's a good reason for that. Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life can break our hearts.

Other people can break our hearts. And all of the Stoics experience this.

They experience depression and loneliness and pain and grief and anger and isolation and not being appreciated.

All the things that we struggle with, the Stoics struggled with.

In Marks Surrealis' Meditations, that's what you're seeing.

You're seeing the most powerful man in the world struggle with his emotions,

struggle with feelings of anxiety and frustration and self-doubt, and try to work

his way through it. And yet, amidst this darkness, the Stoics understood, as Marks Rous would say

in meditations, that our soul is died by the color of our thoughts. Our life is died by the color

of our thoughts. So if we only focus on the negative, if we don't have tools or strategies for dealing with what life throws at us, we're not going to end up in a good place. So if you're lonely or depressed or tired or frustrated dealing with emotional issues, this video is for you. I'm Ryan Holliday. I've written a number of books about Stoic philosophy. I've spoken about it to everyone from the NBA to the NFL, sitting senators,

and special forces leaders. And what we're going to talk about in today's episode is Stoic

strategies for dealing with life's difficult situations and the difficult emotions it brings up.

And I think you're really going to like it.

Seneca said that the mind must be taken on wandering walks. He said, otherwise you'll break, you'll be too tense.

I totally agree.

I try to start my day with a walk and I try to end my day with a walk.

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