9 Stoic Habits For A Better Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 25 July 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Virtue is like any other skill. It’s not something you either have or you don’t. It’s something you practice, and the more you practice it, the better you become. This was Aristotle’s fundamental insight: excellence is not innate. It is a habit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, |
| 0:07.8 | courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 0:14.7 | Most of us aren't satisfied with who we are. Most of us know we're leaving something on the table. And we know it because we |
| 0:22.4 | see what other people are capable of. At the same time, sometimes we let ourselves off the hook |
| 0:27.6 | by saying, oh, it's easier for them. They have better genetics and better upbringing. They had a head |
| 0:33.8 | start. But the truth is that virtue is not different than any other skill. You don't have it |
| 0:39.1 | or not have it. You do it or you don't do it. And you get better at it the more you do it. This is |
| 0:44.6 | the fundamental insight of Aristotle. That excellence is not innate. It is a habit. Epic Tita says |
| 0:52.4 | something similar. He says, we tell ourselves what we want to be, |
| 0:56.0 | and then we do what we have to do. And that's what we're going to talk about in today's daily |
| 1:01.7 | stoic video, foundational stoic habits to help you be that person. And that brings us to where we have to start. |
| 1:13.5 | The Stokes would say that procrastination, which we all do, which we are all inclined to do, |
| 1:18.4 | is not just inefficient, it's not just wasteful. |
| 1:21.0 | It's entitled and arrogant. |
| 1:22.8 | When we tell ourselves, I'll do it tomorrow, as Marx really says, we could be good right now, |
| 1:26.8 | but instead we tell ourselves I'm going to do it tomorrow. As Marks really says, we could be good right now, but instead we tell |
| 1:27.7 | ourselves I'm going to do it tomorrow. But that presumes you have tomorrow. That presumes you have |
| 1:33.5 | next year. That presumes you can do it when the kids are older. That presumes the opportunity |
| 1:38.9 | will still be there in the future. That is arrogant and that is entitled. And it's, by the way, something that all |
| 1:45.7 | foolish people have in common. Seneca says what fools are always doing is telling themselves |
| 1:51.2 | they're going to start later. And he says, this is the biggest waste of life. It snatches away |
| 1:56.1 | the present moment. He says it denies us the present by promising the future. And nothing can promise you a second |
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