The Daily Stoic
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The Daily Stoic
For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoi...
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Mel Robbins | What Would a Stoic Think About The Let Them Theory?
Would the Stoics agree with Mel Robbins’ Let Them Theory? In today's episode, Mel Robbins sits down with Ryan to look at The Let Them Theory through a...
So This is the New Year? | Make 2026 Your Best Year With These 6 Simple Stoic Rules
What about if, instead of fighting against the current, we fought instead “to be the person that philosophy tried to make us?”
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You’ve Been Given a Fresh Chance | Ask Daily Stoic
2025 is dead and gone. Who we were in 2025 is dead and gone. Here we are, lucky enough to rise again in 2026. A year not guaranteed to anyone.
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How James Clear Would Start 2026 If He Were You
The first few weeks of 2026 will decide far more than you think. In this episode, you’ll hear the best of James Clear’s most important advice from his...
BONUS | Another Year Gone By. What Have You Done?
We’ve been blessed with another go, or at least the start of another go. Will we take it? Or will we go on the same as we did before and before and be...
We Are Training For This
When we develop the discipline to prepare our minds and our bodies for hardship, we have the discipline to see the hard times through to the end.
You Don't Have Unlimited Time | What's Up To Us, What's Not Up To Us
This is what we do, isn’t it? We think about doing something…but we put off actually doing it until the last minute.
Make 2026 the...
BONUS | 7 Simple Stoic Habits That Will Transform You In 2026
Here we are at the end of one year and the beginning of another. What do we have to show for it? Did we do what we set out to do? Did we meet those re...
If You Want to Make the World Better, Do This | Give Thanks
Let’s focus on getting better. Let’s get serious about stuff we’ve put off. Let’s lend a helping hand. Let’s “fight to be the person philosophy tried...
The Stoic Way To Survive 2026
You do not control the year ahead. You do control how you meet it. In this episode, Ryan walks through the Stoic framework for becoming better in the...
You Could Leave Life Today. What Would You Do Differently?
The end of the year has a way of reminding us that nothing lasts forever. In today’s episode, you will hear a deep dive into the Stoic practice of Mem...
BONUS | The Book Ryan Holiday Keeps Coming Back To
Ryan was recently a guest on Shilo Brooks’ podcast, Old School, to talk about a book that’s meant a lot to him over the years, Walker Percy’s The Movi...
It Doesn’t Take Long to Do This | Mark Manson's Reading List (From Ryan Holiday)
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...
These Legacies Are a Gift | Ask Daily Stoic
Remarkably, Jesus and Seneca lived nearly parallel lives, with many sources suggesting they were born in the same year. Even more striking are the ove...
Your New Stoic Role Models for a Stronger Life
Virtue is not a theory. It is something you practice. In the moments where you could overreact. In the moments where quitting would be easier. In the...
What Would a Year of This Look Like?
To the Stoics, virtue was a way of life. Not something we are, but something we do. So what would a year look like if you actually practiced this?
BONUS | Why Your New Year’s Resolutions Always Fail (with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee)
In today's bonus episode, Ryan and Dr. Rangan Chatterjee talk about why New Year’s resolutions usually fall apart and what actually works instead. The...
Why Do You Wait for This to Get Harder? | Turn Words Into Works
Procrastination isn’t saving you…it’s only adding interest to the bill you’re going to have to pay eventually.
Make 2026 the year...
Everything Is Changing. Are You? | Stake Your Own Claim
Things falling apart. Traditions crumbling. New technologies. New threats. New trends. Welcome to ancient Rome. Welcome to the past…the present…and th...
Sit Down With Walter Isaacson and Ryan Holiday
In today's episode, Ryan Holiday sits down with legendary biographer Walter Isaacson for a wide-ranging, deeply thoughtful conversation recorded live...
These 3 Rules Will Make or Break Your 2026 | Jesse Itzler
Most people will enter 2026 hoping life just gets better. Jesse Itzler knows that’s not how real change happens. In today’s episode, Jesse breaks down...
It Can’t All Be Wedding Cake | The Best Books You Can Read
Fortune doesn’t care about our plans and preferences. No, Seneca reminds us, she behaves as she pleases.
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Nobody is Coming to Save You (And That’s Good News) | Ask Daily Stoic
These are disorienting times. Cruel times. Dysfunctional times. And it’s natural to want someone, anyone, to step in and fix it. But they’re not going...
You’ve Got to Demand Everything of Yourself | Paralympian Ezra Frech
The pressure of being great changes when you’re carrying more than your own ambition. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Paralympian Ezra Frech t...
You Don’t Have To Be Lucky, You Just Have To Be Good
How are you helping? What are you doing? How are you acting like a Stoic as opposed to just ‘being stoic?
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Love What Your Nature Demands of You | Stake Your Claim
The world needed Marcus Aurelius to become the person we admire and study today. This required conscious and consistent effort on his part. You’re no...
In a World Gone Shallow, In a World Gone Lean | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, but we must resist it—resist it without bitterness or despair—by being bright lights in a dark t...
How To Find Peace | 8 Stoic Lessons You Can Start Today
Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Stoics were trying to do what we’re all trying to do now: find some peace. For them, philosophy wasn’t an academic hobby....
Olivia Nuzzi Knows She Messed Up
It’s easy to defend yourself. It’s harder to tell the truth. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with journalist Olivia Nuzzi for a raw, unfiltered con...
Are You Keeping One? | Stoic Lessons That Will Change Your Life
Did you know that Meditations wasn’t the only book that Marcus Aurelius wrote?
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Tie Yourself to the Mast | Ask Daily Stoic
It’d be wonderful if we always did what we know we want or need to do. But that’s not how the world is. It is filled with temptations, distractions, a...
BONUS | Camila Cabello: “Stoicism Changed Everything for Me”
How does Camila Cabello stay centered in the chaos of fame? Today’s bonus episode brings back an evergreen lesson from her Daily Stoic episode that’s...
The Fine Line Between Genius and Delusion | Helen Lewis
Being the smartest person in the room is usually where the trouble starts. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with journalist and author Helen Lewis t...
These Add Up to Greatness
“Well-being is realized by small steps,” Zeno would say looking back on his life, “but is truly no small thing.”
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You Know It’s Time to Change | Keep The Rhythm
We’re set in our habits. We’re quick-tempered, we eat poorly, we’re easily distracted. We skip exercise, we put stuff off, we make excuses. How did th...
Have You Considered This? | Don't Hide From Your Feelings
The sooner you realize that you are not the center of the universe or the intended recipient of everything, the more understanding you can be, the les...
Why EVERY Generation Rediscovers Stoicism | Mark Manson & Ryan Holiday
Every crisis creates the same instinct in people: go back to the wisdom that has outlasted everything else. In today’s episode, Ryan and Mark Manson d...
The Question That Haunts the World’s Most Successful People | Andrew Ross Sorkin (PT. 2)
Even the giants of history couldn’t outrun insecurity, comparison, or the feeling of not having enough. In today’s episode, Ryan continues his convers...
No One is Truly “Self-Made” | The Philosophy Behind High Achievers
The myth of the self-made man is just that, a myth. There has never been such a thing.
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This Will Make You Stupid | Ask Daily Stoic
It doesn’t matter how smart you are. In the moment, if you can’t control your emotions, you will be stupid.
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