Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast.

Each day we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics illustrated with stories

from history, current events, and literature to help you be better at what you do.

And at the beginning of the week, we try to do a deeper dive, setting a kind of Stoic

intention for the week, something to meditate on, something to think on, something to leave

you with, to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing.

So let's get into it.

Turn down these voices inside your head.

It is not enough, of course, to simply tune out the noise around you.

One can turn off social media, one can cultivate the quiet country life as the Stoics did on

occasion.

One can ignore what is inessential pay, no attention to what makes no difference.

And there is still noise.

Because the calls are coming from inside the house, so to speak.

We have the voices of doubt and anxiety of envy and ambition of fear and frustration.

We have that ceaseless running monologue that worries about this, resents that, wonders

about this, obsesses over that.

To get to adoraxia or a place of stillness and peace, the Stoics knew that controlling

for externals was not enough.

We had to develop an inner calm, too, an ability to recognize our own destructive thought

patterns and stop them.

And this is what Marcus Aurelius was really doing in meditations.

...