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Education, 694393, Daily Stoic, Society & Culture, Stoic, Stoicism, Self-improvement, Business, Stoic Philosophy, Philosophy, Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Gretchen Rubin is one of the most thought-provoking and influential experts on habits and happiness. She has written several New York Times best sellers, which have sold millions of copies, including The Happiness Project and Happier at Home. She also hosts the award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. In short, Gretchen Rubin has thought a lot about what it means to live a happy life.

Her new book Outer Order, Inner Calm is a playbook that helps readers discover ways to make more room for happiness in their lives. This is something the Stoics were often writing about—finding stillness and tranquility, ridding of nonessentials that clutter our lives, learning to stay calm and sane amid life’s chaos and craziness.

In our interview with Gretchen, we asked how she maintains that inner calm with something so hectic and uncertain like a book launch,

I think about actions, not outcomes. That way, I stay focused on the things I can control (more or less). So I don’t think about “making the book a success,” but “writing the best book I possibly can.”

That’s a good rule for all of us—doing the right things, right now. Putting our best efforts into the tasks in front of us today. Taking care of the inputs and detaching from the outcomes. Not worrying about what might happen later, or the results, or the whole picture, or the opinions of others.

“The tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do,” Marcus said. “Only what you do.” Today and always, find clarity and tranquility in the simplicity of focusing on doing the best you possibly can in everything you do.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:13.6	Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life.
0:23.3	Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.
0:37.3	Do Your Best
0:38.3	Gretchen Rubin is one of the most thought-provoking and influential experts on habits and happiness. She has written several New York Times best sellers, which has sold millions of copies, including the Happiness Project and Happier at Home.
0:52.3	She also hosts the award-winning podcast Happier with Gretchen Rubin. In short, Gretchen Rubin has thought a lot about what it means to live a happy life.
1:01.3	Her new book, Outer Order Intercom, is a playbook that helps readers discover ways to make more room for happiness in their lives. This is something the Stoics were often writing about.
1:13.3	Finding stillness and tranquility, ridding ourselves of non-essential clutter in our lives, and learning to stay calm and sane amid life's chaos and craziness.
1:24.3	In our interview with Gretchen for Daily Stoke, we asked how she maintains that intercom was something so hectic and uncertain, like a book launch.
1:33.3	She said, I think about actions not outcomes. That way, I stay focused on the things I can control more or less.
1:42.3	I'm not making the book a success, but about writing the best book I possibly can. That's a good rule for all of us, doing the right things right now, putting our best efforts into the tasks in front of us today.
1:57.3	Taking care of the inputs and detaching from the outcomes. Not worrying about what might happen later, or the results, or the whole picture, or the opinions of others.
2:07.3	As Marcus really has wrote, the tranquility that comes when you stop caring what they say, or think, or do, only what you do.
2:17.3	Today, and always find clarity and tranquility in the simplicity of focusing on doing the best you possibly can in everything that you do.
2:27.3	If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning, you can sign up at dailystoic.com slash email.
2:36.3	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the daily stoic early and add free on Amazon music. Download the Amazon music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondering Plus in Apple podcasts.

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