Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation,

but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are. Some of these come from my talks. Some of these come

from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street

when there happened to be someone there recording.

But thank you for listening, and we hope this is of use to you.

If you want to be happy, do this.

The Stellics talk about a lot of things,

but they don't speak that much about happiness.

Is that because they were too tough or too resigned to their bleak view of life to care about it?

Did they mean to imply that there isn't room for happiness for the stoke, that it wasn't possible?

Not at all.

They talked about other things, virtue and resilience, self-command, managing the passions,

because they believe when you handled that happiness would ensue. As Dr. Becky writes in her wonderful book Good

Inside, we've also had her on the podcast recently, if you want to raise happy kids, don't try to make

them happy. You try to make them resilient and self-aware.

She writes speaking of both parents and kids, the wider the range of emotions we can

regulate, if we can manage the frustration and disappointment and envy and sadness, the more space we have to cultivate happiness.

Regulating our emotions essentially develops a cushion around those feelings, she says softening them and preventing them from consuming the entire jar.

Regulation first, happiness second.

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