It Doesn’t Take Long to Do This | Mark Manson's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)
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🗓️ 26 December 2025
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It was a bad year. You picked up some bad habits. You let some good habits slip. You wasted time on stuff that didn’t matter. But just because that’s true doesn’t mean things have to continue that way.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitda progress on |
| 1:13.1 | them. But just because that's true doesn't mean it has to continue that way. As Marks Rios |
| 1:19.6 | writes in meditations, now they see you as a beast, a monkey, but in a week they'll think |
| 1:25.6 | you're a god if you rediscover your beliefs and honor |
| 1:29.6 | the logos. A week, a week is all it takes to turn it around. Maybe it's more, maybe it's less, |
| 1:37.3 | but the point is it doesn't take long to get going in the right direction again. It doesn't |
| 1:42.5 | take long to turn things around, to pick up the balls you dropped, to replace one bad habit with a better one, |
| 1:49.3 | to recommit to your principles and begin acting like the person you know you can be. |
| 1:55.6 | And that's what we built the Daily Stoic New Year, New You challenge around. |
| 2:00.6 | It's just three weeks, 21 days to start the year |
| 2:04.6 | right to create momentum to transform you from whoever you are right now to who you're capable |
| 2:12.3 | of being in 2026 21 days of stoic inspired challenges one per day to help you be what you're capable of |
| 2:21.8 | be. You could be one way, one thing right now, but it doesn't have to stay that way and it doesn't |
| 2:27.2 | take much to get going in the other direction. If one week is all it takes, imagine what you can do in three weeks. I know that I have |
| 2:36.3 | personally been transformed by the challenges. We do each and every year. This is almost the 10th year of the |
| 2:41.6 | challenge. I have habits and practices that I do each and every year because of the Daily Stoic |
| 2:46.8 | New Year and New Challenge. And I'd love to see you in there. And just a little note, if you want to do this challenge or any of our challenges or courses throughout the rest of the year, I'd just sign up for Daily Stoic Life. As part of this, you get all the challenges for free. So you can sign up there at Daily StoicLife.com. Or just go to daily stoic.com slash challenge to sign up for the 2026 Daily stoic new year new you challenge it's going to be |
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