This is What’s Really Important | Pretend Today Is The End

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Let us be good Stoics today and prove that we don’t just talk about this philosophy—we live it.

Feeding America | We donated the first $30,000 and would love your help in getting to our goal of $300,000—which would provide over 3 million meals for families across the country! Just head over to dailystoic.com/feeding—every dollar provides 10 meals, even a small donation makes a big difference.

Resources Mentioned:

- Action Against Hunger: https://www.actionagainsthunger.org/

📘 Grab the hardcover edition of The Daily Stoic here: https://store.dailystoic.com/

👉 Support the podcast and go deeper into Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic Premium - unlock ad-free listening, early access, and bonus content: https://dailystoic.supercast.com/

🎥 Watch the video episodes on The Daily Stoic YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@DailyStoic/videos

🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoicpodcast

✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail

🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/

📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and Facebook

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

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, visit DailyStoic.com. This is what's really important.
0:59.4	We got together with family.
1:01.5	We reminded ourselves what was important.
1:04.0	We enjoyed the bounties of the earth.
1:06.8	Perhaps when we took the rolls out of the oven,
1:08.9	we noted, as Marks Reelius did in meditations,
1:12.1	the way the bread cracks open on top.
1:15.2	A nod to nature's inadvertence, we counted our blessings and gave thanks.
1:21.4	And then what did we do?
1:23.0	The very next day, millions of us disregarded all of our appreciation for the good things we've been given in life, food, family, and friends to lose ourselves in the frenzy of Black Friday.
1:36.0	And now back in the office, more do the same with Cyber Monday deals.
1:41.0	Instead of taking a minute to consider that not everyone is as fortunate as us, we're trying to
1:46.6	save a fortune on a TV or a new phone or God knows what else. Meanwhile, the family's already
1:53.2	reeling from the rise in costs of living in groceries, who had their benefits cut, who got
1:58.2	laid off, who went hungry as SNAP funds were used as political leverage?
2:03.6	What are they doing? Just trying to get by, trying to make impossible, unthinkable decisions
2:09.8	about how they're going to feed and take care of the people they love this holiday season.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 14 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.