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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 good life.

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.

Keep these thoughts at hand every day. The Stoics were all about routine and concentration.

Epic Tita said that philosophy was something that should be kept at hand every day and night. Indeed, his book, Incridian, actually means a small thing in hand or handbook.

And Seneca, for his part, talked about deep diving into the right books rather than chasing every new or exciting thing that's published.

You must linger among a limited number of master thinkers and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firmhold in your mind.

One of the reasons we wrote the Daily Stoke was to help accomplish just that. We thought it was pretty remarkable that, despite more than 2000 years of popularity, no one has ever put the best of the Stoics in one book, let alone one that was easy to carry, read and study.

It's been pretty incredible to see the success it's had since its release in 2016, having now sold more than 300,000 copies in the English language.

It's currently slated for publication in 14 more languages. The book has spent more weeks on the bestseller list than any book about Stoicism ever. And that's why in celebration of that, the ebook is 199 in the US for the next week if you haven't picked one up.

Amzons probably the best place to grab it, but you can get it anywhere ebooks are sold. And of course, that success is a reflection of the power of Stoic teachings above all.

It's also a testament to the power of combining the right idea with the right medium. Marcus Aurelius was a brilliant mind and a beautiful writer, but his meditations is not organized in any coherent way.

While Marcus acknowledges many other Stoics, including epictetus, neither Marcus nor epictetus acknowledged Seneca and the writings they left, even though epictetus was once a slave of someone who served Nero when Seneca did, once suspects they didn't like him or couldn't be associated with his service to Nero.

What we have from epictetus is really a collection of quotes and highlights from his lectures jotted down by his student Arian. And what we have of Arian's work is only half of what originally existed.

Just plowing straight through these writings is for many not the best way to digest the philosophy. It's almost unstoic in its disorderliness.

However, reading excerpts by themes with a focus on the concerns of everyday life brings these works both into focus and to life. Once this happens, going through the entirety of Seneca, a major undertaking, epictetus and Marcus can be richly rewarding for you.

Stoicism is designed to be a practice and a routine. It's not a philosophy you read once and magically understand at the sole level. Note it is a life-long pursuit that requires diligence and repetition and concentration.

Pierre had actually called it spiritual exercising. That's one of the benefits of the page a day with monthly themes format we organized the Stoics into and weekly themes in the Daily Stoke Journal.

It's putting one thing up for you to review to have it hand and to fully digest. Not in passing, not just once, but every single day over the course of a year and preferably year in and year out.

If epictetus is right, it's something you're supposed to keep within reach at all times, which is why a collection of the greatest hits presented daily was so appealing to us.

Here we are beginning 2019 and we hope you'll give the Daily Stoic a chance in print or with this discounted ebook or make your own greatest hits and your own study plan of the Stoics that you keep and carry with you wherever you go this year.

Because if 2019 is anything like 2018, you're going to need it. And again, you can get the Daily Stoic for $1.99, anywhere ebooks are sold, Amazon, Cobo, Barnes & Noble, wherever you want to buy your ebooks, you can get it there for $1.99, but it won't last long and then the promotion ends. So enjoy.

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