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

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🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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How has Stoicism impacted your life? In this special bonus episode, listeners share their own journeys with the philosophy. Want to be featured in a future episode? Send us an audio recording at [email protected].

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💡 Resources Mentioned:

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long If You Know How to Use It by Seneca

Meditations - Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation)

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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, visit DailyStoic.com.
1:02.1	Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, or rather a bonus episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. If you listen to this podcast, you hear a lot of me. This is
1:07.8	the Daily Stoic podcast, but I am Daily Stoic. I'm talking about the Stoics, but it's my
1:12.5	voice most of the time, with the rare exception of on the Sunday episodes, we might have a
1:16.7	narrator read something where we're bringing you one of my favorite chapters in a book that I read,
1:22.0	and we ask the publisher for the audiobook rights, but it's mostly me. And I've been talking
1:26.2	about my journey through and with Stoicism over the years. I'm mostly not talking about me. I'm talking about Mark Surrealis
1:32.4	and Seneca and Epictetus, or I'm talking about great figures from history or riffing on something
1:36.8	that happened, or I'm interviewing someone. But again, it's a lot of me and it's a lot of my
1:42.2	voice. We decided we'd try something interesting.
1:44.6	I wanted to hear from you, from the millions of Daily Stoic listeners all over the world who've
1:51.9	come to Stoicism either before the podcast or through the podcast, in any case, listen to Daly
1:57.6	Stoic and are trying to apply Stoicism in their actual life, right?
2:02.7	Ancient wisdom in modern life.
2:04.6	And what have they learned?
2:06.1	How are they applying the ideas?
2:08.4	What strategies have they come up with?
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