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People have been doing the same things for as long as there have been people. That’s what you realize when you walk the streets of Pompeii. You have people buying fancy real estate to impress others. You have people chasing trends. You have people writing their names on walls. You have people waiting in line at street vendors. You have people trying to get out of the heat. You have people going to the gym.
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It was over six years ago now that many of us picked up new hobbies and habits to occupy ourselves during the pandemic. We started taking walks. We started cooking or baking. Some of us stopped drinking. Some of us started doing 50 pushups when we woke up. Some of us stopped watching the news or quit social media.
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Those last few years were hard in a way that nobody expected. What we’d thought would go on for a few months dragged on, not unlike the plague of Marcus Aurelius’s time, stretching everyone’s ability to remain disciplined and focused. As a result, many of us slipped. We picked up bad habits. Fell back into old ways. The gym stopped. The food delivery started. The drinking came back.
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For most of human history, somebody else—a king, a lord, a tyrant, a chief—was in charge. In ancient Rome, that was the emperor. Marcus Aurelius was the most powerful man in the world. He could do anything he wanted. No one could tell him what to do or not do. This was not all fun and games of course, since this not only presented him with incredible amounts of temptation, but also an enormous amount of responsibility and stress. He had to make lots of decisions for both himself and for other people.
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The Founders themselves were under no illusion about what they were asking. Such an experiment could only work if checked by private virtue. Without citizens willing to do the private work of getting command over themselves—their impulses, emotions, passions, fears, and appetites—freedom would collapse into chaos.
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Why do they do it? Why do they support those policies? Condone such things? Shrug their shoulders at such injustices? It could be because they are evil and awful people…it could also be because they just don’t know better. It could be that they don’t know better because someone told them much worse.
Mark Twain grew to hate slavery and those who supported it, but his mother, whom he loved and knew as a sweet and wonderful person, grew up a participant in the system. How did he square these two contradictions? He reflected:
Kind hearted and compassionate as she was, I think she was not conscious that slavery was a bald, grotesque, and unwarranted usurpation…As far as her experience went, the wise, the good and the holy were unanimous in the belief that slavery was right, righteous, sacred, the peculiar pet of the Deity, and a condition which the slave himself ought to be daily and nightly thankful for.
In other words, she had been taught to see slavery as something other than what it was. The church, the government, her parents, and her neighbors had all told her it was right. And like most people, she found it easier to accept what everyone around her believed than to question it for herself, than to see what was right in front of her.
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We should remember this today and always, especially if our goal is to bring those people around. We’re almost certainly not going to change their mind by yelling at them. And we definitely won’t bring them around if we write them off as irredeemable.
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Changing habits is hard. It takes willpower. It means discomfort. It means doing some stuff you don’t want to do. It means not doing stuff you want to do.
Discipline is not exactly an easy virtue. It’s not always a fun virtue.
But it’s wrong to think that change and discipline are about force. That they’re all about strictness. That they’re all about struggle.
When we interviewed Dr. Clare Carlisle Tresch about her award-winning book, On Habit, we asked her for advice for people who want to quit a bad habit. What she said was really surprising:
The habit is, for the moment, a part of you, and it’s essential to treat it with kindness and gentleness, rather than as an enemy or a monster—otherwise you turn your own soul, or psyche, or mind, into a battleground. The habit needs to be accepted without being indulged: ok, it is here, it is the present reality, and I would like it to change.
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We think they have it all—and in a way, they do. They have money. They have power. They have a private jet and an enormous amount of access. Look at Marcus Aurelius—look at what he commanded. Look at Seneca or Cicero or Cato—their estates, their natural talents, their influence. Look at plenty of other wealthy Romans or ancients who had even more.
Yet what we miss is that they, for all of this, were still fundamentally constrained. They were limited in all the ways that human beings are limited (no control of the weather, fundamentally mortal, etc). They were also impoverished, as all humans are (not enough time, never happy enough). We’ve been talking about that great song “A Satisfied Mind” recently and its haunting line, the “wealthiest person is a pauper”—and how especially poor many rich people are when it comes to relationships, to contentment, and to peace.
We are not exceptions to this, whatever our net worth happens to be. And worse, we all make ourselves poorer than we need to be—in our craving for more, in our ignoring of what actually matters in life, in the way we waste our time, or in the delusions we hold. We seem to think that there is some kind of escape velocity when it comes to money—if we can just get to a certain amount, we will be beyond this, but how much more evidence do you need that this is simply not true?
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Whether you realize it or not, you are practicing something every day.
Each time you follow through, you are practicing discipline. Each time you put something off, you are practicing delay. Every time you choose patience, restraint, effort, or attention, you are adding fuel to one kind of fire. Every time you give in to distraction, temper, avoidance, or impulse, you are adding fuel to another.
This is why habits matter so much. They do not just shape your routine. They shape your character.
The Stoics understood this. Who we become is not determined by one grand decision, but by what we repeatedly do. The actions we take every day. The decisions we make, the things we prioritize, how we choose to spend our time. All of these compound.
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“First tell yourself what kind of person you want to be,” Epictetus tells us, “then do what you have to do.”
Think about what you were doing 66 days ago. Can you even remember? It wasn’t that long. Now imagine if you had started then. Building one habit, practicing one thing deliberately, adding fuel to your fire. Imagine where you’d be.
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It doesn’t seem like a moral question. It seems more like a personal choice. How you spend your money. Whether you save and invest…or spend and enjoy. How you spend your time. Whether you fritter it away…or spend it on the pursuits and people most important to you. Whether you’re “stoic” or “epicurean” in the lowercase sense of the word.
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Because Washington, far more disciplined and Stoic, could afford to manumit his slaves. Early on, he hadn’t been able to run Mt. Vernon without them. But he was secure enough at the end to do what he obviously should have done and what his conscience knew he should have done years earlier. Jefferson, the Epicurean, was more than $100,000 in debt when he died. He ransacked Europe for antiques and finery. He had expanded Monticello multiple times, sparing no expense. He loved wine and the best foods. Now, he could not pay for his redemption. He was scared of leaving nothing to his children. He came up short when it came to doing the right thing.
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It requires more inner strength than the other Stoic virtues. It also has the power to change your life when you practice it each day.
Discipline.
Look, if you hated the taste of something, if it didn’t feel good, if you weren’t getting good results, if it didn’t guarantee a dopamine hit, it wouldn’t exactly require much discipline to steer clear. And that’s the whole point of the virtue, isn’t it? That it’s requiring you to resist an impulse or forgo a pleasure.
Discipline is about doing what’s hard. Just as courage is the triumph over fear, discipline is the triumph over another lower part of our nature. A lot of times discipline is pushing yourself to do something you don’t want to do, but the other part of it—what we might call the temperance part—is not doing the stuff you do want to do.
Seneca said we’re all slaves to one thing or another—sex or ambition, attention or chaos. By indulging in these passions often enough, eventually we lose the freedom to abstain from them. They become bad habits.
We need discipline to push through them. To resist the urge to keep going when these habits aren’t serving us. To step back when our ambition tempts us to overreach. To recognize that restraint is not a sign of weakness, but of strength and wisdom.
True discipline means knowing when to stop. It’s having the courage to say no—to the extra hour, the extra project, the unsustainable pace—so that we can sustain ourselves for the long haul. Discipline, in this way, isn’t just about action; it’s about control. Control over our impulses, our desires, and even our most deeply ingrained habits. Without it, we can never be truly free.
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He was a good man. He was given nearly unlimited power—and somehow, he proved himself worthy of it.
Marcus Aurelius was incredible.
And that’s sort of the point, right? He was incredible. He somehow proved himself worthy of all that fame and wealth and responsibility. But he’s the exception that proves the rule—the rule being, of course, that kings are bad. Power is corruptive. No one does well when surrounded by sycophants or having every whim catered to.
Marcus Aurelius was checked by philosophy, but if he hadn’t been, he could have easily been a Nero or a Caligula. The American Founders knew this well. “Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could,” Abigail Adams famously wrote to her husband. That’s why they set up explicit checks and balances. It’s why they divided power. It’s why they created mechanisms for accountability, removal, and restraint. They knew virtue mattered, but they also knew better than to depend on virtue alone.
Because most people aren’t Marcus Aurelius. And neither are we.
It’s why we have to set up similar checks and balances in our own lives, in our own businesses and pursuits. It’s why we need people to tell us the truth, to keep us accountable. Because we are not incredible. We are susceptible to being “dyed purple,” as Marcus Aurelius said. We need limits. We need constraints. We need philosophy and accountability to keep us good and decent—not because we’re bad, but because we’re human.
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In a way, it’s easier to think about the greats as being made of superior stock. To think of Cato as coming from a long line of distinguished ancestors. To think of Marcus Aurelius as being preternaturally wise and decent.
It lets us off the hook to think of virtue as something someone is born with, as something all-or-nothing.
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You’d think it would be easy. After all, they have the time. They have the resources. They usually have the brain power and the education.
And yet, the writers of “A Satisfied Mind” (a song that’s been covered by Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Jeff Buckley, and Bon Iver, just to name a few) were absolutely right—in fact, they sound like they’re quoting Seneca—when they sing:
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Why is this? Well, as the Stoics—many of them fortunate and wealthy—knew very well, money brings anxiety in many forms (fear you will lose it, worry that someone else has more, insecurity that people are judging you, the stress of having so many choices). It’s certainly a better problem than having too little, but having too much is still a problem—and not one that automatically leads to a good life.
The ability to be content, to be grateful, to be happy? These are the real luxuries, if you think about it. Because it’s so rare! Apparently nine out of ten rich people can’t even afford them!
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Excellence, good habits, virtue—as we’ve been saying lately, the Stoics considered each of these not a state of being, but a state of action.
This week, we’re sharing some of our best Stoic content about habits because putting good ones into action daily makes you better. It improves the way you live your life. It gets you closer to the person you want to be—the person you know you can be.
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The list goes on, but really, the most important thing to the Stoics—when it came to forming good habits and discarding bad ones—was awareness.
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That’s not what you’re put here for. In the light of your own mortality … the significance of those things would fall away and the starkness of the choice in front of you would become much clearer.
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This week, we revisit Ryan’s talk with James Clear, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/r8uxdre2zntoh3gro4gt2hdx6d27lb7hwg30/kkhmh6hn00924dtlh7/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9hdG9taWMtaGFiaXRzLWFuLWVhc3ktcHJvdmVuLXdheS10by1idWlsZC1nb29kLWhhYml0cy1icmVhay1iYWQtb25lcz9fcG9zPTEmX3NpZD1kMmRkNTA5YmMmX3NzPXI= ), about practical ways to shift your internal narrative, how to begin and maintain productive habitual action, and being flexible with your goals as you set and achieve them.
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The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.
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It’s been one for hundreds of years—a place that people aspire to, dream of, look up to. They want to move there. They want to be part of it. They want what it offers. They like what it stands for.
America.
“The city on a hill”—that’s what John Winthrop first called it in 1630. And so, for even longer than the 250-year anniversary that the United States is celebrating this month, America has been that…and for almost as long, people have totally missed what an important part of that idea—which is Bibilical—is really about.
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Whether America is truly a city on a hill or not is up to you to decide, but each of us should try to conduct our lives as if we were being looked at and looked up to. Because we are. By our families, by our friends, by admirers, by our critics, by people aspiring to get where we are.
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You’ve thought about living somewhere else. You’ve thought about testing the job market. You’ve thought about asking someone out. You’ve thought about taking lessons.
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Because of how Stoicism survives to us, mostly in the form of fragments and letters, we don’t exactly have a list of dos and don’ts. There are no Ten Commandments of Stoicism, no definitive book of what they believed or didn’t.
In those scraps and fragments, however, we do get plenty of insight.
We know that Seneca committed to self-reflection every night. We know that Marcus tried to think about the nature of his work as a human being in the morning. We know what Epictetus and Musonius Rufus said we ought to avoid doing—and it’s this latter category that’s worth thinking about as we reach the middle of the year and take time to reassess our own routines. What actions are no longer serving us (or never did)? What habits are holding us back from our goals or concealing our true character? What habits did the Stoics say we ought to cease, what vices should we avoid?
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* Don’t be overheard complaining...even to yourself (Marcus)
* Don’t put on airs about your self-improvement (Epictetus)
* Don’t overindulge in eating or drinking (Musonius)
* Don’t speak more than you listen (Zeno)
* Don’t avoid difficulty (Seneca)
* Don’t tie your identity to the clothes you wear, things you own (Cato)
* Don’t put off to tomorrow what can be finished today (Seneca)
* Don’t conceal what you truly believe (Arius Didymus)
* Don’t go along just to get along (Agrippinus)
* Don’t shun people you disagree with (Seneca)
* Don’t be all about business (Marcus)
* Don’t neglect your friendships (Seneca)
* Don’t waste time thinking you are going to live forever (All)
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Arete.
That’s a powerful word.
To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of human greatness—moral, physical, spiritual. It’s what the Stoics were chasing. It’s what you’re chasing today.
But how do we get there?
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As philosopher and historian Will Durant paraphrased from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (the quote often mistakenly attributed to Aristotle himself): “We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.” We are what we do. What we do determines who we can be.
And as Epictetus would say, “capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running… therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it.” So if we want to be happy, if we want to be successful, if we want to be great, we have to develop the capability, we have to develop the day-to-day habits that allow this to ensue.
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But there is one thing that they cannot buy. That indeed, no one can buy: Contentment.
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If the rich cannot seem to possess this, does that not give us some sense of the value of this elusive state, this equanimity?
It is literally priceless. You cannot buy it. You can only earn it…and you can only earn it by doing very difficult work. You do it with your daily reading and reflection. You do it by having hard conversations. You do it by pushing yourself physically, by questioning desires and passions. You do it by zooming out. You do it by questioning assumptions. You do it through the training and practice of virtue ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/xmu63gkxqnb6hp5xmqxu5h2eo827obnhv6dw/p8heh9h4wml9ovcqh3/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9zdG9pYy12aXJ0dWVzLWJveC1zZXQ= ).
You cannot inherit it. You cannot have a personal shopper pick it up for you. You cannot get it through your Ivy League tuition. It’s both much cheaper and more expensive than that…but again, in the end, it’s the most valuable thing in the world.
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Thomas Jefferson kept a copy of Seneca on his nightstand. George Washington staged a reproduction of a play about Cato at Valley Forge in the winter of 1777–78 to inspire the troops. John Adams liked to quote Epictetus.
And, indeed, they used Stoic principles—and their knowledge of Greek and Roman history—to fortify their vision for the new nation. As much as they were making a statement for freedom, the Founders were staking their lives on the idea of virtue. The Stoic virtues—courage, justice, discipline, and wisdom.
Four virtues. One principled way of living.
The Stoics believed it was only by practicing these virtues together, not separately, that one could achieve “the highest good” in the world.
The American experiment, based as it was on individual liberty, was also built on the necessity of virtue and honor. A people freed from the tyranny of monarchy still needed to be checked by their own morality and philosophy. “Avarice, ambition, revenge…” John Adams said, “would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.” Many years later, another American president, Dwight Eisenhower, would express it perfectly when he said that freedom was better defined as the “opportunity for self-discipline.” We still had to, in Marcus Aurelius’ words, fight to be the person philosophy tried to make us.
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Let today be more than a celebration—let it be a recommitment to the values that make our collective freedom possible. A recommitment to self-mastery, to taking responsibility, to truth, to work, to duty and service. The work of choosing virtue when it would be easier not to, of living up to the responsibilities that this nation demands, of proving worthy of the liberty we’ve inherited. For only through this work can this great experiment in freedom—this one country made up of many states, many cultures, many people, and many defining principles—continue.
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Nobody likes to do it. Nobody likes to wait. Nobody likes to have to defer. Nobody likes to be overlooked or taken for granted or yoked to somebody else.
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The patience. The humility. The self-control. The endurance. It’s frustrating to have to wait for six months…let alone six years. Nearly 36% of his life was spent waiting for Antoninus to retire or pass away. But not only did Marcus Aurelius put up with this, he used every minute. He understood that power and responsibility were heavy things, that it was actually a gift to delay them (it was time with family, time to be ‘normal’). He understood that it was a complex job he was taking over and that every minute of prior experience was a benefit, that every lesson was priceless.
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It will take wisdom to see that waiting need not be wasted. It will take courage not to quit or complain. It will take justice to keep giving your best even when the spotlight belongs to someone else. It will take discipline to hold your ego in check, to resist resentment, to keep showing up.
That’s the question, then: Could you do this?
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We all have bad habits. Some of us procrastinate. Some of us spend too much time on our phones. Nearly all of us, as Seneca said, are slaves to something—food or sex or alcohol or ambition. We don’t work as hard as we should, or we work too hard. We’re too quick with our temper, we’re too slow to ask for help.
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It’s easy to be cynical about ourselves. We know, more than anyone, how long we’ve been struggling with things. We know how ingrained our bad habits are and how hard it’s going to be to get over them. But we can’t give up. We can’t quit on ourselves. If we don’t believe we are capable of change, who will?
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Arete.
That’s a powerful word.
To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of human greatness—moral, physical, spiritual. It’s what the Stoics were chasing. It’s what you’re chasing today.
But how do we get there?
It requires a certain philosophical approach—because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough.
As philosopher and historian Will Durant paraphrased from Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (the quote often mistakenly attributed to Aristotle himself): “We are what we repeatedly do, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.” We are what we do. What we do determines who we can be.
And as Epictetus would say, “capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions, walking by walking, and running by running… therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it.” So if we want to be happy, if we want to be successful, if we want to be great, we have to develop the capability, we have to develop the day-to-day habits that allow this to ensue.
This is great news. It means that impressive results or huge changes are possible without herculean effort. Small adjustments, good systems, the right processes—that’s what it takes. Things like:
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If you were in their position, if you had their power, if the decision fell to you, you’d do it right. You would not be such a coward. You would not be so weak. You would not be driven to excess. You would not be selfish. You would do it right.
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When we were kids, life was often overwhelming and bewildering.
We would fall asleep in a car seat or stroller and wake up hours later in a dark room, with no idea how we got there. Everything was new. We had to walk into a classroom for the first time, sit at something called a “desk,” and stay there all day, away from our parents, learning from strangers. We were subjected to new and confusing rules that no one explained, expected to behave in ways that didn’t seem to make any sense.
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In Marcus Aurelius’ famous passage about the obnoxious and rude and frustrating people he knows he will meet in the course of a day, he makes a really important point. He reminds himself (and us) why people are like this. They’re like this, he says, because they don’t know better. Because no one taught them. “All these things result from their not knowing what is good and what is evil,” he writes…"And how can I be angry with my kin or hateful towards them?”
Everyone is new to this. We’re all figuring it out as we go. Still reacting. Still afraid. Still working through lessons we haven’t mastered yet. Like a kid, we’ve never been this age before! Nobody has!
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That passage from Marcus Aurelius about how the impediment to action advances action, that what stands in the way becomes the way—do you know what he was actually talking about specifically?
It wasn’t overcoming an injury, or a layoff, or financial collapse. It wasn’t about a reversal on the battlefield.
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Whenever someone does something to us—minor or major—we always have this choice. We can decide not to be like the people who did us wrong. We can choose to be better. We can choose the high road. And we should, because the low road will always dog you.
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He had every reason to feel threatened. He had every reason to think of his own interests first. He had every reason not to care much about this kid he’d been stuck with.
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Again, he could have intrigued against him. He could have undermined him. He could have tried to replace him with someone he was related to. Instead, he was generous and patient and selfless. He helped him succeed.
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It may seem dark to think about it this way, but it is true. We are constantly dying—dying every day, as Seneca said. Life is a one-way street. Time marches in only one direction. Things are always ending, always coming to a close, or getting closer to one.
Marcus Aurelius knew this, but he didn’t let it get him down. In fact, he found some reassurance in it. “When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its conclusion,” he observed, “it is a kind of death.” But this doesn’t harm us, he pointed out. In fact, we look forward to many of these cessations and conclusions. “Think about your life,” he said, “childhood, boyhood, youth, old age. Every transformation a kind of dying. Was that so terrible?”
Of course not. It’s just how life is. From one end comes another beginning. Nothing lasts forever—nor would we want it otherwise. Instead, we have to accept change, if not embrace it. We have to accept that none of us maintain anything or any form forever. Instead, we are transitioning, always—some quickly, some more slowly.
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Things get heated. Words get said. Someone crosses a line.
Do you want to step outside?
Usually, that question means the situation is about to get worse. The argument has outgrown the room. Emotions are ramped up, and everyone is one bad decision away from regret.
But stepping outside does not have to mean stepping outside to fight. In fact, it may be exactly what both people need.
That’s what we’re told Cato did when he was shoved in the baths. He didn’t shove back and let the moment decide for him. He stepped away and gave himself time to calm down. His antagonist had that same time, too. And when Cato returned, the man apologized.
Cato declined to accept the apology. “I don’t even remember being shoved,” he said. That was the end of that.
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This is why stepping outside matters. Sometimes that means literally stepping outside. Taking a walk around the block before we say the thing we can’t take back. Letting the text sit unanswered. Sleeping on it. Sometimes stepping outside means writing the letter we never send. Putting every angry, wounded, righteous thought on the page so it does not have to come out of our mouth. Letting the notebook absorb the blow instead of another person.
The point is not pretending the line wasn’t crossed—it’s to create enough distance so that we choose how we respond.
Step outside to breathe. Step outside to think. Step outside to remember who you are. Step outside so that when you come back, you are not carrying the same heat you left with.
Most of the time, the fight does not need a winner. It needs a little space.
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You have your principles. You have your ways. You made your decision. You set the rules.
This is what you do. This is what you think Stoicism is.
And it is, no question. It’s a philosophy of firmness, of unwavering commitment, of steadfastness and strictness.
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Marcus Aurelius seems to have learned from this. He had convictions and principles. He was unyielding with himself. Yet he also had a pragmatic streak. He was tolerant of others. He met people where they were. He said that he learned from his teacher Apollonius “that a man can show both strength and flexibility.”
What a great combination! It’s one we need to cultivate, too. There will be times we have to bend. There will be times we have to collaborate. There will be times we have to adjust, times we have to meet someone where they are.
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1. To Love Philosophy
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Antoninus “honored those who were true philosophers, and he did not reproach those who pretended to be philosophers, nor yet was he easily led by them.”
Marcus had a pretty important job, one that would have been enough to consume an ordinary person’s entire day—even, possibly, their entire life. After all, millions of lives depended on how well he performed at work and whether he managed his responsibilities properly.
So it’s interesting that Marcus took pains to remind himself that, as important as his job was, philosophy needed to be the priority. We get a good sense of how he thought about his priorities with this line in Book 6 of Meditations:
“Philosophy: Keep returning to it, to rest in its embrace. It’s all that makes the court—and you—endurable.”
Treat philosophy like the people who birth you and raised you, he says, keep returning home, like you do to your father or stepfather, your mother or stepmother.
Yes, we’re busy. Yes, we (hopefully) love our jobs, and we need what those jobs provide, both in terms of financial security and fulfillment. But it would be a grave mistake to leave philosophy only our scraps, only the leftover time we have when the workday is through. Philosophy is not a frivolous hobby—it’s the key to everything we’re trying to do. It’s a compass, a guiding light, it’s what we owe our ultimate love and devotion.
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2. To Read Deeply
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Antoninus believed an emperor-in-waiting needed to read widely. Marcus tells us that “he never let things go before he was sure he had examined them thoroughly, understood them perfectly.”
Reading isn’t about “getting the gist of it,” as Marcus said. It’s about making the material a part of your life and your mind. It’s about lingering and digesting until it takes firm hold, never to be dislodged. It’s about, as Marcus learned from his father, examining them thoroughly.
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3. To Be Decisive
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Antoninus had a remarkable “unwavering adherence to decisions,” Marcus tells us. “Once he’d reach them,” there was no hesitation, only resolute action. A leader, a father, a human being must be able to decide.
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4. To Be Humble
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On the emperor Hadrian’s deathbed, he summoned Antoninus. It was time to hand over the crown. Antoninus pushed back. With this “indifference to superficial honors,” we’re told, Hadrian was certain he’d made the right decision in making Antoninus his heir.
Marcus said he revered “His restrictions on acclamations—and all attempts to flatter him.” When the Senate, for instance, proposed to change the month of September to his name and October to his wife’s, Antoninus refused.
We again see Marcus putting this lesson into practice throughout Meditations. He liked to remind himself that his imperial “purple robes are sheep wool dyed with shellfish blood”—they are not special. He wanted to avoid “becoming Caesarified”…just as his father had avoided it, and never let himself be fooled into thinking he was better or more important than other people.
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5. To Keep An Open Mind
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Marcus liked Antoninus’ “tolerance of people who openly questioned his views and his delight at seeing his ideas improved on.”
Marcus would later talk about being happy to have been proven wrong. “If anyone can refute me,” he wrote, or “show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.” This was a well-formed lesson from his stepfather.
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6. To Work Hard
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“Take Antoninus as your model, always,” Marcus wrote. “How hard he worked, how much he put up with…his ability to work straight through ‘til dusk.”
Marcus would later talk about ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/68unr7k9p6f8h58qregtohp4rlq0wi9h75g2/3ohphkh35rre7etrhn/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9tYXJjdXMtYXVyZWxpdXMtZGFpbHktaGFiaXRzLw== ) rising early, working hard, and doing what his nature and job required. That work ethic wasn’t inborn—it was developed. He learned it from example.
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7. To Take Care of His Health
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Antoninus worked hard, but he also made sure “to take adequate care of himself,” Marcus says. “He hardly ever needed medical attention, or drugs or any sort of salve or ointment.”
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Health is wealth. Taking care of yourself is important. What good can you do in this world if you feel like shit all the time? Or if you lack the physical and moral strength to be of good to anyone?
We are on this planet for a short amount of time. But if we practice bad habits, if we let our urges run wild, we will surely shorten that time. That’s not Stoic, that’s stupid.
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8. To Serve The Common Good
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We learn from the Historia Augusta that one of the reasons Hadrian adopted Antoninus was he had this kind of instinct to serve others. Just after Aelius Verus—Hadrian’s original choice to succeed him—died, a meeting was called at the Senate. Antoninus helped his father-in-law, Annius Verus, walk to the Senate house. “For this act,” we read in the Historia Augusta, “Hadrian adopted him.”
When he became emperor, when he was given absolute power and unlimited wealth, the first thing he did was set up a res privata—a small team in his court to manage his private financial account and keep it distinctly separate from the imperial treasury. When his wife scolded him for his penny-pinching within the household, Antoninus replied, “now that we have gained an empire, we have lost even what we had before.” Meaning their wealth was no longer there, now it was meant to be shared, particularly with the less fortunate. Accordingly, Antoninus gifted money to the less fortunate, he cancelled debts, he lent his own money at interests below market rates, and he paid out-of-pocket to distribute food in times of famine.
And Marcus would learn to do the same. “The fruit of this life is a good character,” he wrote, “and acts for the common good.”
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9. To Be Self-Reliant
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Antoninus showed Marcus that fortune was fickle. We mentioned above that spartan attitude to money. Marcus would have observed Antoninus “taking frugal meals and reducing the pomp on state occasions to republican simplicity.” Frugality and industry were the only ways to guarantee financial security. Marcus said, “Self-reliance, always”—what a lesson for a father to teach a son.
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10. To Look To Experts
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“This, in particular,” Marcus said he learned from Antoninus: the “willingness to yield the floor to experts—in oratory, law, psychology, whatever—and to support them energetically, so that each of them could fulfill his potential.”
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11. To Lead From The Center
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Hadrian was known for his globe trotting and a tendency to seek peace and quiet abroad when Rome was particularly chaotic. Other emperors retreated to pleasure palaces or blamed enemies for issues during their reign.
In pointed disapproval of these other rulers, Marcus praised Antoninus “particularly for staying in Rome and running the empire from the centre.” He marveled at his “constant devotion to the empire’s needs. His stewardship of the treasury. His willingness to take responsibility—and blame—for both.”
No one would have faulted Marcus if he had fled Rome when the Antonine Plague broke out. Most people of means did. Instead, Marcus stayed, at enormous personal cost. He braved the deadliest plague of Rome’s 900-year history, never showing fear, reassuring his people by his very presence. He locked down his citizens, but he did not lock them out. His doors were always open. He summoned priests of every sect and doctors of every specialty and toured the empire in an attempt to purge it of the plague, using every purifying technique yet known. He attended funerals. He gave speeches. He showed up for his people, assuring them that he did not value his safety more than his responsibility.
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12. To Not Lose Your Temper
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Antoninus had what all truly great leaders have—he was cool under pressure:
“He never exhibited rudeness, lost control of himself, or turned violent. No one ever saw him sweat. Everything was to be approached logically and with due consideration, in a calm and orderly fashion but decisively, with no loose ends.”
It’s what Marcus was constantly reminding himself (and what inspired our Daily Stoic Taming Your Temper course ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/68unr7k9p6f8h58qregtohp4rlq0wi9h75g2/vqh3hrho944zovcghl/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9jb3Vyc2VzL3Byb2R1Y3RzL2FuZ2Vy )). “When you start to lose your temper,” Marcus wrote, “remember: there’s nothing manly about rage.” He saw Antoninus as a real man…who didn’t need to unload on other people.
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13. To Be Self-Controlled
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“He knew how to enjoy and abstain from things that most people find it hard to abstain from and all too easy to enjoy. Strength, perseverance, self-control in both areas: the mark of a soul in readiness—indomitable.”
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These were all lessons Marcus carried with him his whole life. They guided the most powerful man on the planet through many trying times—so much so that he recounted them in his private journal late in life. And we’re still recounting them close to 2,000 years later.
The things you teach your kids will shape their future. And their children’s future. So make sure you’re setting a good example. If your children were to write down what they learned from you on their deathbed, what would they write? You have the ability to shape that everyday. Start now.
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Today in the US, we celebrate Juneteenth, the commemoration of the emancipation of slaves in America. Two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation—and nearly ninety years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence—Union Army troops deployed to Texas, the only state of the Confederacy still with institutional slavery.
“The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free,” ordered a Union General.
There’s no question—that military order, which was given 161 years ago today, deserves celebration. It asserted “absolute equality” and began the liberation of hundreds of thousands of human beings. Marcus Aurelius would write in Meditations ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/8kuwvl4kzghoh268pqgtkhko52lrvt3hm8zv/owhkhqhwmkqrnrtvhr/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9wYWdlcy9tZWRpdGF0aW9ucw== ) (the edition that I travel with is available here ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/8kuwvl4kzghoh268pqgtkhko52lrvt3hm8zv/z2hghnhe24l37euph0/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9hbGwtYm9va3MvcHJvZHVjdHMvbWVkaXRhdGlvbnMtbWFyY3VzLWF1cmVsaXVzLXByZW1pdW0tbGVhdGhlci1lZGl0aW9uLWdyZWdvcnktaGF5cy10cmFuc2xhdGlvbg== )) that his Stoic role models taught him to “conceive of a society of equal laws, governed by equality of status and speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of their subjects above all else.”
It’s as beautiful a sentence as any written by Thomas Jefferson, but it was a long way from Epictetus’s experience. This kind of freedom would have been something inconceivable to the early Stoics, who themselves lived in a slave society and tragically did very little to stop it. Like Jefferson’s writings, Marcus Aurelius’s passage was just that. An idea. Not a reality.
In 1910, Theodore Roosevelt would remind his fellow citizens of the critical distinction between words and deeds. “In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776,” he said, “but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts. This is true everywhere.” Or as the Latin expression goes, acta non verba. ”Deeds not words.”
It’s wonderful to celebrate these principles from the Stoics and the Founders. It’s wonderful to note the moments of historical progress like Juneteenth. But we have to remember that beautiful language pales in comparison to beautiful acts. We have to turn these words, these ideas, into deeds. We can’t just talk about them, we have to be about them. And not living up to them or doing something about them—as was the case with slavery in Rome and America—is ugly. Marcus knew this, but fell short…damning himself with his own words in Meditations: “you can commit an injustice by doing nothing also.”
Make sure you’re not guilty of the same.
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It seemed like he had nothing. He had no home. He had no job. He dressed in rags. Yet, when Diogenes encountered Alexander the Great, it was ultimately the poor philosopher who came out on top. Alexander, who could offer wealth, power, protection, virtually anything in the world—asked Diogenes if there were any favors he could do for him. Diogenes wanted for nothing and therefore was bold enough to tell the great conquerer to go away and stop blocking his sun.
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It’s bad. It’s dangerous. It’s awful. It’s mean.
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How quickly we, as the Noah Kahan lyric puts it, “state a feeling like a fact.”
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This is madness, the Stoics remind us—it is misery. Our feelings not only aren’t facts, most of the time they are wrong!
When we decide our emotional reaction is the truth, curiosity disappears. Humility disappears. Patience disappears. We stop trying to understand. We stop listening. We stop seeing things as they truly are.
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There is the form of poverty that is not having enough. This is a real and tragic problem—a stroke of bad luck and often, a social injustice. It’s a shame the way that society looks down upon those who are struggling—as if it’s always their fault, as if it says anything about them as a person.
But there was another form of poverty that Seneca talked about (and, in fact, knew himself) and it was this form that actually was pathetic: The poverty of wanting too much. All Seneca had to do was look around Rome to see it. There is a famous story of a man in Nero’s court who threw himself at the emperor’s feet, crying that he was down to his last million. “My god,” Nero replied, “how can you bear it?!”
Sadly, this poverty is all too common in the first world—perhaps even in your social circles. People who make good money but spend it even better, whose appetites outpace even their enormous incomes. In many cases, their poverty is self-inflicted, the result of a lack of self-discipline. There are also the people whose poverty comes merely by comparison—although they have quite a bit, compared to others they have only a little, and thus feel poor.
Both these forms are not only pointless and irresponsible, but they are an insult to the people who actually are struggling. They’re an insult to people who have the misfortune of not being born into money or not working in an industry where fortunes are more readily made. They’re an insult to philosophy too, as Marcus Aurelius reminds us, because so little is actually needed for a good and happy life (the inspiration for our Wealthy Stoic ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/mvup3r6xomi5hq6d0leamhrxdor26a3hw42m/qvh8h7hd5xom4pilhk/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9jb3Vyc2VzL3Byb2R1Y3RzL3RoZS13ZWFsdGh5LXN0b2ljLWEtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtZ3VpZGUtdG8tYmVpbmctcmljaC1mcmVlLWFuZC1oYXBweQ== ) course—learn more and sign up here ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/mvup3r6xomi5hq6d0leamhrxdor26a3hw42m/qvh8h7hd5xom4pilhk/aHR0cHM6Ly9zdG9yZS5kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9jb2xsZWN0aW9ucy9jb3Vyc2VzL3Byb2R1Y3RzL3RoZS13ZWFsdGh5LXN0b2ljLWEtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMtZ3VpZGUtdG8tYmVpbmctcmljaC1mcmVlLWFuZC1oYXBweQ== )).
Poverty because of where you are born or what’s happening in the world is tragic. Poverty because you are entitled, reckless, envious, or insatiable? That too is tragic…just the kind that doesn’t deserve any sympathy.
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There are things that look like strength but aren’t. An aggressive, mean person can seem strong, but oftentimes they’re not. It’s an act. “All cruelty,” Seneca wrote, “springs from weakness.” The bully, almost invariably, has been bullied.
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There is a burden to the study of history. It not only takes a lot of work, it’s heavy—knowing what people have done to each other, knowing what they do to each other, making sense of the contradictions, the failures, the stupidity. It does not exactly fill one with hope for humanity.
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Parenting can present us with some of our greatest tests as Stoics. Your son has dyslexia. Your oldest has behavior issues, the youngest is on the spectrum. Your daughter has a chronic health issue. Your kid has trouble regulating emotions.
These are challenges, to be sure. Challenges for you. Challenges for them. It’s not easy…nor is it cheap. There are accommodations you’ll have to make. There will be things you need to buy. There will be things you—and they—will not get to do. There will be heartbreak too, heartbreak that both Marcus Aurelius and Seneca experienced after the devastating loss of their own children far too young.
But as always, the Stoics remind us that everything has its compensation…if we choose to see it, if we choose to welcome it. The challenges we face as parents become our greatest teachers and guides. You’ll have moments with them at the outpatient clinic that years from now, you wouldn’t trade for anything. You’ll have extra time with them, closely working with them or helping them, that perhaps other parents wouldn’t get with their kids. You’ll develop patience and resilience that you could have otherwise never imagined—and they will, too. You’ll learn how to advocate for yourself and for them. You’ll come face to face with this thing called acceptance. You will understand what it means to love, to really love unconditionally.
This thing with your kid—you wouldn’t have wished for it. You wouldn’t have wished it on them or indeed on any other parent. And yet, you are coming to see that it gave you something.
It gave you perspective—on what truly matters, on what real strength looks like.
It gave you connection—to your child, to yourself, to others who’ve gone down this road, too.
It gave you purpose—to fight for them, to guide them, to help them navigate a world that isn’t always built for them.
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It was just a long meeting. It was a lazy period. You just got distracted. You were waiting for something better. You did it because you didn’t know how to say “no.”
Ah, the excuses we make for doing things we have no business doing. As if, as Seneca points out, we aren’t paying for these excuses with the most precious resources we have—our time. Look back at those periods, those obligations you unthinkingly said “yes” to, and what do you see trailing behind you? It’s your life.
Remember, whatever it is, however long or short it is, we are giving up something we can never get back. “You can never ever leave,” go the song lyrics, “Without leaving a piece of youth.” And not just our youth, but our children’s youth, and just as easily our golden years or any period of our brief existence.
This is why we have to be wise enough to know what’s worth doing and what isn’t. Why we have to be confident enough to say “no,” courageous enough to change course when necessary. Honest enough to stop pretending the thing we’re doing isn’t costing us anything.
Because every day we are spending time. Every “yes” is a trade. Every obligation takes its cut. Every distraction leaves with something.
The question is not whether we will leave pieces of ourselves behind. The question is whether we’re leaving them with the people and places that matter. With what’s most important to us. With our families, with our children.
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Maybe it will help you get ahead. Maybe it will help you get rich. Maybe it will help you get closer to power, help you keep power.
As we see with Seneca, compromises can pay off…but they come at a high cost.
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We forget this timeless wisdom—and these cautionary tales—at our peril. It will not turn out differently for us. We will not be the exception. Do not lie to yourself. Do not trade your soul away. Because once it’s gone, you cannot get it back. No amount of power or success will be worth it. No earthly reward is worth your values—or your ability to look at yourself in the mirror.
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We could do it later. We could get serious later. We could wait for things to settle down. We could wait for better terms. We could wait until we feel better.
But why? Why not do it while we have the chance? Why not get it started? Why not get it over with?
The Smashing Pumpkins famously sang about the “resolute urgency of now.” That is what we face. That is what is slipping away from us. The future lies in uncertainty, Seneca said, so we must live immediately. We have to match the swiftness of time, he believed, with the quickness of our own action and our own choice. We do not have the luxury of dragging our feet or putting things off…or we will be passed by and miss our opportunity.
Today is for certain. Today is before you. Things are settled enough. You must be serious now. This is your chance.
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There are—and always have been—brave people who said, “No. Not in my name.” Who said, “I’m going to do what I can to stop this.” Who said, “Everyone should see this.”
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At various times, inhabitants of the U.S. Empire have been shot, shelled, starved, interned, dispossessed, tortured, and experimented on. What they haven't been, by and large, is seen.
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It’s a dark world. It’s a world with cheats and cowards, liars and monsters. It’s also a world of busy people, people with a lot going on, people who don’t have time or energy to get involved.
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A public service to whom? To those people who are not cheats and cowards, liars or monsters. Most people are busy. Most people have a lot going on. Most people don’t know what they can do, let alone what they ought to do.
So when they see someone committed to justice, when they see someone speaking out, when they see someone getting involved, when they see someone doing good, it sends a powerful message. It shows them that not everyone is dark. It shows them that not everyone is afraid. It gives them an example to follow. It gives them hope. It gives them a practical set of things they can do.
We can always use more leaders. We are in desperate need of good, courageous people. Can you fill that need?
If you want to be one of those people, start by studying them.
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Why do they go along with it? Why don’t they stand up? Why are they refusing to use their considerable power or resources?
Well, what’s everyone else doing?
If everyone else in your class is turning a blind eye to some abuse or malpractice, you’re much more likely to do the same. If everyone else is publicly saying one thing (or not saying one thing) but speaking much differently in private, it’s likely that you too will be silent. That’s why we’re in the mess we’re in right now. That’s why the headlines about so many of these unspeakable tragedies keep rolling out—nobody else was speaking up, so nobody else did.
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It is harder to be courageous when all you see are examples of cowardice. Well, the Stoics can help us with this. Because we come from a long tradition of people who did speak up, who weren’t cowards, who were fine to stand alone, to put their reputations and lives on the line to do what was right.
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Why others are refusing to do this, we can only speculate. But us? We can choose to find different inspiration—to follow a different pattern—and most important, help set one for others.
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He had to compromise from the start. Seneca had no love for emperors, but Nero was his way back from exile, his chance to be at the center of things once again (having been unjustly exile by Claudius in 41 AD).
So Seneca swallowed some of his true feelings to advise and teach Nero. And how did this deranged emperor reward him for this commitment?
By shoving the moral compromise in Seneca’s face constantly.
Seneca had to watch as Nero fixed the Olympics so he could award himself the prize. He had to help Nero give a speech after Nero killed his own mother. He stood aside as members of the ruling class were forced onto the stage, humiliated in performance, even sent into the arena to fight wild beasts.
It’s a problem old as time, unfortunately (just ask Plato, who found himself in this position with Dionysius II). Those that first ask us to bend our principles a little will ultimately return to ask for more and more. They will, ultimately, require us to contort ourselves into utterly unrecognizable positions. We think we are being pragmatic—in actuality, we’re being humiliated.
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If you don’t answer this call, you could lose your job. If you keep passing on these opportunities, you could get passed over in your career. If you miss this flight, the vacation could be ruined. If you let your employees do that, they’ll think you’re a pushover.
In the course of a day, we make hundreds, thousands of assumptions. We rely on causal links—if this, then that, if not this, then that—that while rarely spelled out explicitly, cause us worry and concern. And here’s the crazy part: Most of this logic is spurious at best. Most of these assumptions are faulty. We’re just making them up…even though they make us miserable!
This is why the use of ‘reason’ as well as reflection were so important to the Stoics. Because in pausing and examining, we find that much of our anxiety, much of our franticness, much of our suffering, is self-inflicted and totally unnecessary. One missed meeting or phone call or opportunity is not going to determine the future of your life. Sometimes you have travel difficulties—that’s how it goes. Your employees don’t think you’re a pushover and probably appreciate what you did for them.
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Because so much of Stoicism comes down to us in books, it’s easy to assume that it’s a written philosophy. That philosophy was something the Stoics did alone, in private, hunched over a wax tablet or some unfurled scroll.
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Yes, but that’s not how we got the philosophy itself. Stoicism began on a porch in Athens (the Stoa Poikile, the “Painted Porch”), where Zeno would talk and trade ideas with whoever was around. The great playwright David Mamet had a funny way of putting it on the podcast ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/e5u7qwevr0s7hl327d2c8h85q4e5xilh28px/7qh7h8h973mzn2hz/aHR0cHM6Ly9wb2RjYXN0cy5hcHBsZS5jb20vdXMvcG9kY2FzdC90aGUtZGFpbHktc3RvaWMvaWQxNDMwMzE1OTMxP2k9MTAwMDc0NjAwOTg5NA== ) a while back. What he loves about the Stoics, he said, is that they were just “porch guys”—just regular people hanging out, talking about how to become the best version of themselves.
Cato, the man widely admired as the greatest Stoic of them all—there isn’t even a secondhand record of his words. We know that he liked to do his philosophizing on foot. Plutarch tells us he would take a meandering walks through Rome, talking with whoever he met “on his rounds.” And for all his austere habits, his other practice was philosophical dinners, where he talked about ideas long into the night.
Epictetus never wrote anything down. His Discourses comes from a student, who tells us that “whatever I used to hear him say I wrote down, word for word, as best I could, as a record for later use of his thought and frank expression.” That’s how Epictetus taught—in person, going back and forth in real time.
So for most of its history, Stoicism was a spoken, conversational philosophy. It’s meant to be heard, meant to be talked about, meant for that back and forth. And this is a long, unbroken tradition that goes back thousands of years, one that continues to this day.
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They knew they were flirting with danger. They knew he had designs. They knew that these were compromises that violated Rome’s traditions. They knew he would never be satisfied.
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It wasn’t that long ago. It wasn’t that far away.
Greece and Rome are not a distant land from a foreign past. Marcus Aurelius and Seneca and Epictetus and Zeno and Cleanthes are closer than you think—and not that different from you.
“The world is young,” Emerson said. “The former great men and women call to us affectionately.” In fact, Zeno got the same advice from the Oracle at Delphi, who told him that the good life meant “conversations with the dead.” Books, philosophy, even this email is a way to convene with them, a reminder that they dealt with the same problems we did, lived in the same world as us. In his amazing book, History Matters ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/o8un7ro048fqh6m6l3davhqe8dgp3bohrm98/p8heh9h404g7vziq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9oaXN0b3J5LW1hdHRlcnM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9MTEzY2RkMzE4Jl9zcz1y ) (available at The Painted Porch ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/o8un7ro048fqh6m6l3davhqe8dgp3bohrm98/p8heh9h404g7vziq/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudGhlcGFpbnRlZHBvcmNoLmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0cy9oaXN0b3J5LW1hdHRlcnM_X3Bvcz0xJl9zaWQ9MTEzY2RkMzE4Jl9zcz1y )), David McCullough noted that “there is no such thing as the dead past. The marvelous thing about the past is whenever you reach down into it, all you find is life.”
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Pick up the book. Open the page. Listen. They’re still calling to us.
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There’s a great exchange between Epictetus and a student that encapsulates how the Stoics likely would have felt about artificial intelligence.
“Tell me what to do!” the student says.
“It would be better to say,” Epictetus corrects him, “make my mind adaptable to any circumstances.’”
In our fast-paced world, we’re constantly bombarded with promises of shortcuts to success, happiness, and fulfillment. We’re advertised “get rich quick” schemes and productivity hacks on social media (which is itself a shortcut to human connection).
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Marcus Aurelius, despite being emperor of Rome, still made time every day to write in his journal, examining his thoughts and actions. He understood that wisdom required ongoing effort—not once, but continually throughout life. There was no app, no hack, no shortcut to replace it.
In our modern context, the Stoics would likely view AI and other shortcuts with caution. Not because technology itself is problematic, but because the promise that we can bypass the hard work of learning and growth is fundamentally misleading. The Stoics would remind us that the struggle itself—the very difficulty we try to avoid—is often where the most valuable learning occurs.
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Arete.
That’s a powerful word.
To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of human greatness—moral, physical, spiritual. It’s what the Stoics were chasing. It’s what you’re chasing today.
But how do we get there? Well, it requires a certain philosophical approach. Because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough.
“We are what we repeatedly do,” Aristotle said, “therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit.”
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This is great news. Because it means that impressive results or enormous changes are possible without herculean effort or magic formulas. Small adjustments, good systems, the right processes—that’s what it takes. Things like:
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There is nothing more powerful than a good habit. Nothing that holds us back quite like a bad habit. We are what we do. What we do determines who we can be.
You know this. You’ve seen these forces at work in your own life, for better and—frustratingly all too often—for worse.
Today is the day to start harnessing these powers and wielding them properly. To stop being jerked around by our habit—-to no longer be a passive observer of our own virtues and vices.
It won’t be easy, but it will be transformational.
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These are difficult times we’re in. Economic uncertainty. Personal adversity. These things can sink you...or they can be opportunities to improve. They can be obstacles you triumph over ( https://6198ed19.click.convertkit-mail4.com/o8un7ro048fwur9zr6cvhqe807e2hohrm98/z2hghnho99lrpwbp/aHR0cHM6Ly9kYWlseXN0b2ljLmNvbS9oYWJpdHM_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1lbWFpbHNlcXVlbmNlJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWxzZXF1ZW5jZSZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249ZW1haWxzZXF1ZW5jZQ== )...or setbacks that bring you to your knees.
What will it be?
Habits answer that question. If you can cultivate good habits, you can survive—even thrive on—what lies ahead. If you relapse and fall to the level of your worst habits, these hard times will only be harder.
We’re inviting you to spend six weeks challenging yourself to change what you “repeatedly do.” And we are promising that if you can do that, you can achieve arete—personally and professionally.
If you want to be or do something, Epictetus said, make a habit of it. So let’s make a habit of arete.
And let’s remember his most urgent and challenging question: How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of yourself?
How about not one second longer?
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As the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they knew that this wasn’t some painless petition. This wasn’t some minor political stand. No. They knew, as they wrote, they were mutually pledging their “life, fortune, and sacred honor.” It was a cause they were willing to give everything for—even die for.
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It is remarkable. It is sad. It is entitled and irresponsible.
Even though things are moving very quickly—even though tempus fugit, time flies—people are taking things slow. People are hemming and hawing. People are putting things off. People are acting like they can afford to do this, as if they’re not paying for this indecision and these delays with their pocketbook…and with their life.
The Smashing Pumpkins sang about how we had to live and love tonight “in the resolute urgency of now.” In the kitchen at Per Se, there is the famous sign, “A Sense of Urgency,” mounted directly below the clock. Both of these reminders are essential. So is Seneca’s: “The whole future lies in uncertainty; live immediately.”
This is your life that sits before you. Time is ticking away. Don’t delay. Don’t procrastinate. Don’t make excuses. Don’t be entitled. Own it. Do what must be done.
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And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.
And that’s the point. We don’t have to be perfect, we just have to choose to be good. We have that choice. We can begin again. We can still fight it through.
Good is better than perfect because it’s real. Good is better than perfect because it’s human—it’s the striving, the effort, the genuine desire to do what is right. Good is what we are. Good is what we have to keep trying to be, every day.
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Maybe you don’t think it’s making much of a difference. Maybe it’s terrifying and exhausting. Maybe it’s costing you a lot—friends, followers, peace of mind. Maybe the odds against you are overwhelming.
Still, it is worth doing.
Cato didn’t succeed against Caesar. Thrasea was beaten by Nero. Stockdale was repeatedly tortured for his resistance.
But do you know what their example did? It inspired not only others around them, but has inspired people for generations to come. Courage is a team sport. People are more likely to stand up, to say “this is wrong,” to join the cause, if they see other people doing it.
So by putting yourself out there, by speaking your mind, by living a virtuous life in an unvirtuous world, you are doing an incredible service. You are saying: All is not lost. You are saying to those who are seeing the same things: You are not alone. You are saying to the powers that be, the ones who take complicity and cowardice for granted: There are more of us than you think.
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Courage.
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It’s pivotal stuff. It’s the stuff that the door to the good life hangs on.
Like the cardinal directions—north, south, east, west—the four virtues are a kind of compass. A guide to what to do, who to be, how to behave, and how to respond in every situation with:
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That was almost twenty centuries ago. We have developed and discovered a lot of things since then—automobiles, airplanes, the Internet, cures for diseases that were previously a death sentence, AI—but have we found anything better?
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So memorize these four virtues. Act on them. Live them. Share them with everyone in your life. And keep them close to your heart always.
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They are not supposed to be pursued in isolation … They are pieces of a larger goal, individual notes in a piece of music.
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Great leaders don’t just build winning teams—they build people who can go on to lead without them. In today’s episode, Ryan talks about the idea of “growing a coaching tree” and what it means to create a culture that outlasts you.
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Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it.
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For hundreds of years, it was a glittering, powerful empire.
Buildings and statues. Rituals and traditions. Millions of
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mother of all the rest. In a world that’s scary, that’s
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Justice, Marcus Aurelius said, is “the source of all the other
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“If, at some point in your life, you should come across anything
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The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to
change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The
lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that live in
river water and enter the bodies of swimmers.
When these paragraphs or pages come into our lives, they not only
change us, but they change the people around us, too. How many
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about the men in that prison camp who were saved by Stockdale’s
heroism? How many lives have been shaped, maybe even saved, by
the ideas from a book, given at the right moment?
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matter)? Something that could have helped you see the big
picture, deal with stress, direct your ambitions properly? To
remind you that the courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom you
need are all there for the taking—if only you know how to develop
them?
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These are two books—one ancient, one modern—that every young
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Ancient writer and biographer Plutarch profiled the eminent Greek
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The transition after graduation can be emotional, overwhelming,
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Like the four cardinal directions, Stoicism’s four
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Learning is a lifelong pursuit that doesn’t end when you
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For the Stoics, journaling wasn’t just reflection—it was
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wellbeing to things outside of your control. Success, mastery,
sanity, Marcus writes, come from tying your wellbeing “to your
own actions.” If you’ve put in your maximum effort, if you’ve
committed fully, if you’ve made decisions with careful
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Be strict with yourself and understanding of others.
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Put people first.
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There’s a great story about Marcus Aurelius’s actions during a
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Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
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“Don’t let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole,”
Marcus reminded himself. “Stick with the situation at hand.”
Focus on the moment. Waste no time thinking about the monsters
that may or may not be up ahead.
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Let go of anxiety.
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“Today I escaped from anxiety,” Marcus says. “Or no, I discarded
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Don’t waste time worrying about other people’s opinions.
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The right book at the right time is a powerful thing.
In fact, it can change the whole course of your life.
Some time around 141 AD, a young Marcus Aurelius was given a copy
of Epictetus’ lectures from his teacher’s own library. Walking
the halls one day as a grad student at Stanford, a professor
invited James Stockdale into his office. Reaching behind him, he
too grabbed a worn copy of Epictetus off the shelf and handed it
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Not only did these books change the lives of the people they were
given to—Marcus Aurelius relying on it when he became emperor and
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It can be an ugly world. It can be a boring world. It can be a
world full of distraction.
Which is why the artist and the philosopher must learn how to
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with the painter Beauford Delaney, his friend and mentor. As they
crossed the street, Delaney stopped the young Baldwin. “Look,” he
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It was never meant to be seen by prying eyes. It certainly wasn’t
meant to be published as a book. It was written in an antiquated,
foreign language, full of ancient philosophy that, until
recently, few had ever heard of. And the man doing the writing
lived a life unimaginably different and distant from yours.
Then why bother reading a book like that? How could it possibly
affect or improve your life?
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battle with in his saddlebags, as did four-star General James
Mattis, who carried it with him on deployments throughout the
Middle East. It is this book that American presidents have read
and raved about. It is this book that Robert Louis Stevenson, the
great novelist, described as unlike any other. It is this book
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Do you think everyone understood why Cato was so alarmed about
Caesar? Do you think everyone understood why Thrasea or
Agrippinus refused to bend the knee to Nero? Or why Rutilius
Rufus made a legal martyr of himself when corrupt interests
brought him up on false charges?
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You could do it when things get warmer. You could do it when
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Look around. People are rushing everywhere. Rushing through
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in a shipwreck. A family fortune. His occupation. His entire
future, swallowed by the sea.
On at least two occasions, Seneca lost everything he'd worked so
hard for. First, illness derailed his legal career, and it took
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was banished from Rome for nearly as long as he had been infirm.
Zeno and Seneca, like countless other Stoics and people through
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And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools.”
There was nothing Zeno could have done to prevent that shipwreck.
There was nothing Seneca could have done to prevent that illness
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That's life. Stuff happens. Then what?
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Shipwreck. Exile. Failure. Getting fired. A season-ending injury.
None of these things are good. They are certainly not things we
would choose. But for a Stoic, they can be good if they make you
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fortunate from them.
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People have always been trying to undermine our institutions,
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And there’s no question these people do enormous damage in the
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waste. So yeah, that makes us angry. It worries us. It consumes a
lot of our attention and energy.
But it’s worth pointing out that these people, whom we spend so
much time thinking about, don’t spend one second of their lives
thinking about us. Do you think Nero even knew Epictetus existed?
Certainly he did not spend his dinners saying “Can you believe
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They prosper, who burn in the morning,
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Which raises the question: is there anything better?
Here’s one pretty extraordinary thing: Love.
Sure, you could argue that love fits within the virtue of
justice, but it’s notable how much the Stoics speak about it.
Hecato said, “I can teach you a love potion made without any
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What is this harmony and rhythm he speaks of? Probably the same
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Can I feel another way?
Or are less and more the same?
Can I really still complain?
To be back here once again
There are miles and miles of tape
You can watch it, it’s been saved
There’s a rhythm to reclaim
Get tall and walk away
The Stoics called this rhythm the logos. It was the way, the
word, the harmony of the universe and a life in accordance with
nature. It was the master plan. It was the thing we didn’t know
we needed, but of course did. It was this rhythm that Zeno got
back to when he lost everything in a shipwreck, accepting that he
was meant for something other than the merchant’s trade. It was
this that Marcus Aurelius tried to put his faith in after the
funerals, after the betrayals, after the twists of fate.
We, ourselves, must understand that there is a rhythm.
Inevitably, we will be jarred and scarred and kicked around by
fortune. But we can always reclaim this rhythm and the harmony
found within it. We can always revert to ourselves. We can always
find in this rhythm a steady way forward.
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We need you to be you, which is to say, good, honest, principled,
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You think this is new? That the other side lies? That the other
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It would be nice if things were easier. It would be nice if they
were fair. It would be nice if they were simply what they were
advertised.
But we all know they are not. And for most of history they have
not been…for some of us more than others.
There was an old expression—true for women, for minorities and
other groups—that in order to succeed they had to be twice as
good. Meaning that they were held to higher standards, put
through more of a ringer, subjected to extra scrutiny. It wasn’t
right…but it was a fact.
This is how life goes for everyone, it should be said, even the
relatively privileged. We think we know what we need to do. We’re
told the rules. We’re told the difficulty. And then you know
what? It turns out to be much, much harder. People are going to
change those rules at the last minute. The circumstances will
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It isn’t fair. Some gatekeeper is going to grade you harder than
everyone else. And you’ll have to deal with it. You’ll have to
reach down and draw from your reserves. You’ll have to be that
much better. You’ll have to do that much more.
You can complain. You can quit. Or, you can understand, as
Epictetus did—who was certainly persecuted and victimized by
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Cato was powerful. Cato was a traditionalist. Cato was
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In many ways, he was an elitist.
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his view on justice and of the goal of good government was
captured in a line that he borrowed from the scriptures: “Every
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shall be none to make him afraid.” His vision of America, he said
in a famous address, gave “bigotry no sanction” and “persecution
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freedom and love and hope. He was talking about sticking up for
the little guy. Now, neither Washington and the Founders nor the
Stoics were perfect at this (ahem, slavery). They fell short.
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aspire to today. As Marcus Aurelius writes, it was from the
Stoics Thrasea, Helvidius, Cato, and Brutus that he first learned
the importance of “a society of equal laws, governed by equality
of status and speech, and of rulers who respect the liberty of
their subjects above all else.”
Tyrants, bullies, and jerks are the enemies of justice. They
cannot be accepted. They cannot be accommodated. Whether it’s an
online mob or an economic system that exploits the impoverished,
the belittling boss or masked government thugs, tyranny is
tyranny and it puts us all at risk.
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must speak loudly and with one voice against those who
intimidate, those who violate, those who abuse and discriminate.
We must not turn away when the meek and the vulnerable are being
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They never wanted to forget: We can go at any moment.
The Stoic finds this thought invigorating and humbling.
Remembering this fact is one of the most important and critical
of Stoic exercises.
It is not surprising that one of Seneca’s biographies is titled
Dying Every Day. After all, it is Seneca who urged us to tell
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“You may not sleep again,” when waking up as reminders of our
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difficulty—but rather that other people are sources of
distraction and envy. If we were the only ones doing what we were
doing, there would be clarity and simplicity. Well, that’s not
how life works.
Seneca talked about how tricky it was to stay on the path that
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who have no idea where they are going!
Not long ago, we spoke of Seneca as a cautionary tale. He himself
was led astray by his peers and predecessors in politics and
power, and ended up in a dark and shameful place in Nero’s
service. We quoted from a song by the band Bear’s Den, which has
another lyric that makes this point:
Lost footsteps in the snow
Down the paths we used to roam
Staying on our path will not be easy. The more we judge ourselves
against others, the more we covet what they have or try to
compete with them, the more likely we are to end up lost. We must
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Our feet will always move in the direction of our focus. So look
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That’s why they recruited you. That’s why they put you in charge.
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us, quietly corrected them, saying that “he hadn’t come to Asia
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but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.”
So it ought to go for our time and priorities, Seneca continued.
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The obstacles we face in life make us emotional. The only way
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can keep steady no matter what happens, no matter how much
external events fluctuate.
The ancient Stoics had a word for this state: apatheia.
It’s the kind of calm equanimity that comes with the absence of
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Step 1: Steady Your Nerves
“What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool
headedness. This he can only get by practice.” — Theodore
Roosevelt
During the Civil War, troops were unloading a steamer when it
exploded. Everyone hit the dirt except Ulysses S. Grant, who
instead ran towards the scene.
That is nerve.
Like Grant, we must prepare ourselves for the realities of our
situation, steadying our nerves so we can throw our best at it.
Step 2: Control Your Emotions
“Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.” — Publius
Syrus
When America first sent astronauts into space, they trained them
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Here on Earth, when something goes wrong we trade in our plan for
an emotional freak-out.
As Nassim Taleb put it, real strength lies in the domestication
of one’s emotions, not in pretending they don’t exist.
Step 3: Practice Objectivity
“Don’t let the force of an impression when it first hits you
knock you off your feet; just say to it: Hold on a moment; let me
see who you are and what you represent. Let me put you to the
test.” — Epictetus
In our lives, how many problems seem to come from applying
judgments to things we don’t control?
Perceptions give us information at the exact moment when it would
be better to focus on what is immediately in front of us.
We must question our animalistic impulse to immediately perceive
what happens. But this takes strength and is a muscle that must
be developed.
Step 4: Practice Contemptuous Expressions
The Stoics used contempt to lay things bare and “strip away the
legend that encrusts them.”
Roasted meat is a dead animal. Vintage wine is old, fermented
grapes.
We can do this for anything that stands in our way, seeing things
as they truly, actually are, not as we’ve made them in our minds.
Step 5: Alter Your Perspective
“Man does not simply exist but always decides what his existence
will be, what he will become the next moment. By the same token,
every human being has the freedom to change at any instant.” —
Viktor Frankl
Remember: We choose how we’ll look at things.
What we must do is limit and expand our perspective to whatever
will keep us calmest and most ready for the task at hand.
Think of it as selective editing—not to deceive others, but to
properly orient ourselves.
Step 6: Live in the Present Moment
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything
close up.” — Chuck Palahniuk
It doesn’t matter whether this is the worst time to be alive or
the best, whether you’re in a good job market or a bad one.
What matters right now is right now.
Focus on the moment, on what you can control right now. Not the
monsters that may or may not be ahead.
Step 7: Look for the Opportunity
“A good person dyes events with his own color…and turns whatever
happens to his own benefit.” — Seneca
Every situation, no matter how negative, is an opportunity for
improvement—if only we look for it.
Maybe you were injured recently and are laid up in bed
recovering. Now you have the time to start the book or the
screenplay you’ve been meaning to write.
That business decision that turned out to be a mistake? See it as
a hypothesis that was wrong. Like a scientist, you can learn from
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Welcome to Day 6 of An Introduction To Stoicism. Today we're
talking about Premeditatio Malorum: The Stoic Art of Negative
Visualization.
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A CEO calls her staff into the conference room on the eve of the
launch of a major new initiative. They file in and take their
seats around the table. She calls the meeting to attention and
begins, “I have bad news. The project has failed spectacularly.
What went wrong?”
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thinking, these leaders are encouraging their employees to think
negatively.
The technique that the CEO above was using was designed by
psychologist Gary Klein. It’s called a premortem. In a premortem,
a project manager must envision what could go wrong—what will go
wrong—before starting. Why? Far too many ambitious undertakings
fail for preventable reasons. Far too many people don’t have a
backup plan because they refuse to consider that something might
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naive optimism too often obscure. They can catch us when we are
puffed up with visions of our own greatness and preordained
success. Remember Netflix’s aborted attempt to split into two
separate companies? Or when Google Wave was marketed as “the next
Gmail,” only to be shut down in a little over a year? If only
these great companies had stopped to envision the possible
travails that awaited them, they might have been able to prevent
them.
No one has ever understood this better than former heavyweight
champion Mike Tyson, who, reflecting on the collapse of his
fortune and fame, told a reporter, “If you’re not humble, life
will visit humbleness upon you.”
The practice goes back much further than just psychology though.
It dates back many thousands of years, in fact—to the great Stoic
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A writer like Seneca would begin by reviewing or rehearsing his
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fall ill, the ship could be attacked by pirates.
“Nothing happens to the wise man against his expectation,” he
wrote to a friend. “. . . nor do all things turn out for him as
he wished but as he reckoned—and above all he reckoned that
something could block his plans.”
By doing this exercise, Seneca was always prepared for disruption
and always working that disruption into his plans. He was fitted
for defeat or victory. And let’s be honest, a pleasant surprise
is a lot better than an unpleasant one.
In a case where nothing could be done, the Stoics would use it as
an important practice to do something the rest of us too often
fail to do—manage expectations. Because sometimes the only answer
to “What if?” is, “It will suck but we’ll be okay.”
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external
factors. We don’t always get what is rightfully ours, even if
we’ve earned it. Not everything is as clean and straightforward
as the games they play in business school. Psychologically, we
must prepare ourselves for this to happen.
If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something
unexpected occurs, you’re not only going to be miserable whenever
you attempt something big, you’re going to have a much harder
time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.
The only guarantee, ever, is that things could go wrong. The only
thing we can use to mitigate this is anticipation, because the
only variable we control completely is ourselves.
The world might call you a pessimist. Who cares? It’s far better
to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard.
If we have prepared ourselves for the obstacles that are
inevitably on their way, we can rest assured that it’s other
people who have not. In other words, this bad luck is actually a
chance for us to make up for some time. We become like runners
who train on hills or at altitude so they can beat racers who
expected the course would be flat.
Anticipation doesn’t magically make things easier, of course. But
we are more prepared for them to be as hard as they need to be,
as hard as they actually are.
With anticipation, we have time to raise defenses, or even avoid
them entirely. We’re ready to be driven off course because we’ve
plotted a way back. We can resist going to pieces if things
didn’t go as planned. With anticipation, we can endure.
We are prepared for failure and ready for success.
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In one form or another, each of them did it. It would be
Epictetus who would admonish his students that philosophy was
something they should “write down day by day,” that this writing
was how they “should exercise themselves.” Seneca’s favorite time
to journal was in the evenings: “I examine my entire day and go
back over what I’ve done and said, hiding nothing from myself,
passing nothing by.” Then he would go to bed, finding that “the
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himself.”
They were not the only ones to practice the habit of writing.
Foucault observed that of this era of history, all the great
minds practiced it.
“In this period there was a culture of what could be called
personal writing: taking notes on the reading, conversations, and
reflections that one hears or engages in oneself; keeping kinds
of notebooks on important subjects (what the Greeks called
hupomnemata), which must be reread from time to time so as to
re-actualize their contents.”
And of course, many people—Stoic or otherwise— have fallen in
love with and dedicated themselves to morning or evening
journaling in the centuries since. And for good reason—it works.
It clarifies the mind, provides room for quiet, private
reflection and gives one a record of their thoughts over time.
But in Stoicism the art of journaling is more than that, more
than some simple diary. This daily practice is the philosophy.
Preparing for the day ahead. Reflecting on the day that has
passed. Reminding oneself of the wisdom we have learned from our
teachers, from our reading, from our own experiences. It’s not
enough to simply hear these lessons once, instead, one practices
them over and over again, turns them over in their mind, and most
importantly, writes them down and feels them flowing through
their fingers in doing so.
In this way, journaling is Stoicism. It’s almost impossible to
have one without the other.
So if you’re not doing it, we encourage you to start. Whatever
form you find is most conducive for you is the one to do it in.
Maybe it's jotting thoughts down on paper. Maybe it's typing them
on your computer. But it's the process that counts.
And its value compounds over time. One cannot expect wisdom and
self-mastery to simply arrive via epiphany. No, those states are
acquired, little by little, practice by practice. The sooner you
start, the better.
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1. Prepare For The Day Ahead
Each morning you should prepare, plan and meditate on how you aim
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come and steeling yourself so you’re ready to conquer it. As
Seneca wrote, “The wise will start each day with the thought,
‘Fortune gives us nothing which we can really own.’” Or think of
Marcus’s reminder: “When you wake up in the morning, tell
yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling,
ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are
like this because they can’t tell good from evil.”
2. Put The Day Up For Review
Stoicism isn’t just about thinking, it’s about action—and the
best way to improve is to review. Each evening you should, like
Seneca did, examine your day and your actions. As he put it,
“When the light has been removed and my wife has fallen silent,
aware of this habit that’s now mine, I examine my entire day and
go back over what I’ve done and said, hiding nothing from
myself.” Ask yourself: Did I follow my plans for the day? Was I
prepared enough? What could I do better? What have I learned that
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Welcome to Day 4 of An Introduction To Stoicism. In today's
email, we'll discuss Memento Mori: The Timeless Stoic Exercise.
“Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of
life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each
day. … The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each
day is never short of time.” Seneca
At a Roman triumph, the majority of the public would have their
eyes glued to the victorious general at the front—one of the most
coveted spots during Roman times. Only a few would notice the
aide in the back, right behind the commander, whispering into his
ear, “Remember, thou art mortal.” What a reminder to hear at the
peak of glory and victory!
It is reminders like this one that we desperately need in our own
lives—a thought or an idea that we’d rather ignore, do everything
to avoid and pretend is not true. Most often, our ego runs away
from anything that reminds us of the reality that sits at odds
with the comfortable narrative we have built for ourselves. Or,
we are simply petrified to look at life’s facts as they are. And
there is one simple fact that most of us are utterly scared to
meditate, reflect on and face head on: We are going to die.
Everyone around us is going to die.
Such reminders and exercises take part of Memento Mori—the
ancient practice of reflection on mortality that goes back to
Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is
“about nothing else but dying and being dead.” In early Buddhist
texts, a prominent term is maranasati, which translates as
‘remember death.’ Some Sufis have been called the “people of the
graves,” because of their practice of frequenting graveyards to
ponder on death and one’s mortality
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to humble. Others were meant to inspire zest for life. The
essayist Michel de Montaigne, for instance, was fond of an
ancient Egyptian custom where during times of festivities, a
skeleton would be brought out with people cheering “Drink and be
merry for when you’re dead you will look like this.”
To us moderns this sounds like an awful idea. Who wants to think
about death? But what if instead of being scared and unwilling to
embrace this truth we did the opposite? What if reflecting and
meditating on that fact was a simple key to living life to the
fullest? Or that it was the key to our freedom—as Montaigne put
it, “To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has
learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”
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), Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You could leave life right now.
Let that determine what you do and say and think.” That was a
personal reminder to continue living a life of virtue now, and
not wait. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne expressed a
similar sentiment in his painting Still Life with a Skull, which
showed the three essentials of existence—the tulip (life), the
skull (death), and the hourglass (time). The original painting is
part of a genre referred to as Vanitas, a form of 17th century
artwork featuring symbols of mortality which encourage reflection
on the meaning and fleetingness of life.
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to create priority and meaning. It’s a tool that generations have
used to create real perspective and urgency. To treat our time as
a gift and not waste it on the trivial and vain. Death doesn’t
make life pointless but rather purposeful. And fortunately, we
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sleep again,” when waking up as reminders of our mortality. Or as
another Stoic, Epictetus, urged his students: “Keep death and
exile before your eyes each day, along with everything that seems
terrible— by doing so, you’ll never have a base thought nor will
you have excessive desire.” Use those reminders and meditate on
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Monday: Rise And Shine
“On those mornings you struggle with getting up, keep this
thought in mind—I am awakening to the work of a human being. Why
then am I annoyed that I am going to do what I’m made for, the
very things for which I was put into this world? Or was I made
for this, to snuggle under the covers and keep warm? It’s so
pleasurable. Were you then made for pleasure? In short, to be
coddled or to exert yourself?” — Marcus Aurelius
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years ago, the emperor of Rome (who was reportedly an insomniac)
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) to summon the willpower to throw off the blankets and get out
of bed.
From the time we’re first sent off to school until the day we
retire, we’re faced with that same struggle. It always seems
nicer to shut our eyes and hit the snooze button a few times.
But we can’t—because we have a job to do. Not only do we have the
calling we’re dedicated to, but we have the larger cause that the
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). We cannot be of service to ourselves, to other people, or to
the world unless we get up and get working—the earlier the
better. So come on. Get in the shower, have your coffee, and get
going.
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Tuesday: Prepare Yourself For Negativity
“When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will
encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous,
and cranks. They are all stricken with these afflictions because
they don’t know the difference between good and evil. Because I
have understood the beauty of good and the ugliness of evil, I
know that these wrong-doers are still akin to me … and that none
can do me harm, or implicate me in ugliness—nor can I be angry at
my relatives or hate them. For we are made for cooperation.” —
Marcus Aurelius
You can be certain as clockwork that at some point today you’re
going to interact with someone who seems like a jerk (as we all
do). The question is: Are you going to be ready for it?
This exercise calls to mind a joke from the 18th century writer
and witticist Nicolas Chamfort, who remarked that if you “swallow
a toad every morning,” you’ll be fortified against any other
disgusting thing that might happen that day.
But there is a second part to this, just as there is a second
half of Marcus’ quote: “No one can implicate me in ugliness—nor
can I be angry at my relative or hate him.” The point of this
preparation is not to write off everyone in advance. It’s that,
maybe, because you’ve prepared for it, you’ll be able to act with
patience, forgiveness, and understanding.
For more Stoic strategies on how to deal with difficult people,
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Wednesday: Clarify Your Intentions
“Let all your efforts be directed to something, let it keep that
end in view. It’s not activity that disturbs people, but false
conceptions of things that drive them mad.” — Seneca, “On
Tranquility of Mind,” 12.5
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planning to the end, you will not be overwhelmed by
circumstances, and you will know when to stop. Gently guide
fortune and help determine the future by thin king far ahead.”
The second habit in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (
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Having an end in mind is no guarantee that you’ll reach it—no
Stoic would pretend otherwise—but not having an end in mind is a
guarantee that you won’t. To the Stoics, oiêsis (false
conceptions) are responsible not just for disturbances in the
soul, but for chaotic and dysfunctional lives and operations.
When your efforts are not directed at a cause or a purpose, how
will you know what to do day in and day out? How will you know
what to say no to and what to say yes to? How will you know when
you’ve had enough, when you’ve reached your goal, or when you’ve
gotten off track if you’ve never defined what those things are?
You cannot. And so you are driven into failure—or worse, into
madness—by the oblivion of directionlessness.
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Thursday: Be Ruthless To Things That Don’t Matter
“How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of
what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief,
foolish joy, greedy desire, and social amusements—how little of
your own was left to you. You will realize you are dying before
your time!” — Seneca, “On the Brevity of Life,” 3.3b
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) To invitations, to requests, to obligations, to the stuff that
everyone else is doing. Even harder is saying no to certain
time-consuming emotions: anger, excitement, distraction,
obsession, lust. None of these impulses feels like a big deal by
itself, but run amok, they become commitments like anything else.
If you’re not careful, these are precisely the impositions that
will overwhelm and consume your life. Do you ever wonder how you
can get some of your time back or how you can feel less busy?
Start today off by utilizing the power of no. No, thank you, and
No, I’m not going to get caught up in that, and No, I just can’t
right now.
It may hurt some feelings. It may turn people off. It may take
hard work. But the more you say no to the things that don’t
matter, the more you can say yes to the things that do. This will
let you live and enjoy the life that you want.
Friday: Turn ‘Have To’ Into ‘Get To'
“The task of a philosopher: We should bring our will into harmony
with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will
and nothing that we wish for fails to happen.” — Epictetus,
“Discourses,” 2.14.7
A long to-do list seems intimidating and burdensome—all these
things we have to do in the course of a day or a week. But a
get-to-do list sounds like a privilege—all the things we’re
excited about the opportunity to experience. This isn’t just
semantic play. It is a central facet of the philosopher’s
worldview.
Today, don’t try to impose your will on the world. Instead, see
yourself as fortunate to receive and respond to the will of the
world.
Stuck in traffic? A few wonderful minutes to get to sit there and
relax. Your car broke down after idling for so long? Ah, what a
nice nudge to take a long walk the rest of the way. A swerving
car driven by a distracted, cell-phone-wielding idiot nearly hit
you as you were walking and soaked you head to toe with muddy
water? What a reminder about how precarious our existence is and
how silly it is to get upset about something as trivial as being
late or having trouble with your commute.
It might not seem like there’s a big difference between seeing
life as something you have to do versus seeing life as something
you get to do, but there is. A huge, magnificent difference.
Saturday: Take A Walk
“We should take wandering outdoor walks, so that the mind might
be nourished and refreshed by the open air and deep breathing.” —
Seneca, “On Tranquility of Mind,” 17.8
In a notoriously loud city like Rome, it was impossible to get
much peace and quiet. The noise of wagons, the shouting of
vendors, and the hammering of blacksmiths all filled the streets
with piercing auditory violence. So philosophers went on a lot of
walks — to get where they needed to go, to clear their heads, and
to get fresh air.
Throughout the ages, philosophers, writers, poets, and thinkers
have found that walking offers the additional benefit of time and
space for better work. As Nietzsche would later say: “It is only
ideas gained from walking that have any worth.”
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make, take a walk. When you want to be creative, take a walk.
When you need to get some air, take a walk. When you have a phone
call to make, take a walk. When you need some exercise, take a
long walk. When you have a meeting or a friend over, take a walk
together.
Nourish yourself and your mind and solve problems along the way.
It might not solve all your problems, but there’s certainly no
problem that’s going to be made worse for it.
Sunday: A Week In Review
“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will
put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil — that
none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only
that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future
descend from the past.” — Seneca, “Moral Letters,” 83.2
In a letter to his older brother Novatus, Seneca describes a
beneficial exercise he borrowed from another prominent
philosopher. At the end of each day, he would ask himself
variations of the following questions: What bad habit did I curb
today? How am I better? Were my actions just? How can I improve?
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not public benefit. Writing down Stoic exercises was and is a
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consciously recall the events of the previous day.
Be unflinching in your assessments. Notice what contributed to
your happiness and what detracted from it. Write down what you’d
like to work on or quotes that you like. By making the effort to
record such thoughts, you’re less likely to forget them. An added
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Welcome to Day 2 of An Introduction To Stoicism. In today's
email, we're sharing The Best Resources on Stoicism.
The starting point of any new pursuit is critical. Stoicism is no
different. Picking up the wrong book can derail even the most
interested student.
So where should someone start with Stoicism? Which philosopher?
Which translator? Which edition? Are there good books about
Stoicism? Good articles? Is the free stuff on the internet any
good?
We’ve got you covered.
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Meditations (
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Meditations (
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) is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the
private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice
to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and
obligations of his positions. Trained in Stoic philosophy, Marcus
stopped almost every night to practice a series of spiritual
exercises—reminders designed to make him humble, patient,
empathetic, generous, and strong in the face of whatever he was
dealing with.
Well, now we have this book (
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). It is eminently readable and perfectly accessible. You cannot
read Meditations (
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) and not come away with a phrase or a line that will be helpful
to you next time you are in trouble. Read it, it is practical
philosophy embodied (
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Make sure you pick up the Gregory Hays translation (
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) from Modern Library. We loved it so much, we created a
leatherbound version (
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) to withstand the test of time.
Or, watch this video: 100 Things Ryan Holiday Learned From
Reading Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (
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Letters from a Stoic (
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) by Seneca
Seneca (
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), like Marcus, was a powerful man in Rome. He was also a great
writer and from the looks of it, a trusted friend who gave great
advice to people close to him. Much of that advice survives in
the form of letters (
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). Now, we can read those letters (
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) to guide us through grief, wealth, poverty, success, failure,
education and so many other things. Seneca was a Stoic, but he
was practical and borrowed liberally from other schools. “I don’t
care about the author if the line is good,” he once quipped to a
friend. That is the ethos of practical philosophy—it doesn’t
matter from whom or when it came from, what matters is if it
helps you in your life, if only for a second. Reading Seneca will
do that (
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On the Shortness of Life (
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) by Seneca
This collection of three short letters (
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)—essays, really—might actually be the best introduction to
Seneca. The main one, On the Shortness of Life, is a stringent
reminder about the non-renewability of our most important
resource: our time. One of his most famous quotes comes from this
writing and is worth reflecting upon: “It is not that we are
given a short life but we make it short, and we are not
ill-supplied but wasteful of it.”
Learn more about Seneca in this video (
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) where Ryan Holiday breaks down who Seneca was, why you should
be interested in his work, some of the key themes from his
writing: How To Read Seneca (The World’s Most Interesting Stoic)
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Go Deeper with Stoicism 101 (
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)
You’ve realized by now there is a lot to learn from the Stoics.
We have hundreds of thousands of words directly from Marcus
Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and the others. Not to mention the
hundreds of hours of videos and podcasts I’ve recorded — all
giving you the best information I have from years of study on
Stoic philosophy.
That’s why I created Stoicism 101: Ancient Philosophy For Your
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best teacher, in just 14 days. If you want to cut through the
sheer volume of content, Stoicism 101 (
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) is the course for you.
Whether you’re a beginner at Stoicism or you’ve been studying it
for years, there is something to be gained by getting up and
going to “school”—because learning, as Marcus said, is a good
thing. You’ll also get access to 3 hours of my Stoic teaching
sessions that go even more in depth on practical strategies and
personal experiences of stoicism.
Click here to learn more about Stoicism 101 and join the course!
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Discourses and Selected Writings (
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) by Epictetus
Of the big three (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus), Epictetus
is the most preachy and for many, the least fun to read. That
doesn’t mean he isn’t brilliant. On many occasions he expresses
something so clearly and profoundly that it will shake you to
your core. Start with this translation (
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Pair Epictetus' Discourses (
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) where Ryan Holiday reveals how reading Epictetus will help you
gain freedom and find happiness: How To Read Epictetus
(Enchiridion, Discourses) (
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).
Fragments (
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) by Heraclitus
This is as ephemeral as the Stoics get. While most of the other
recommendations are bent towards hard, practical advice,
Heraclitus might seem a bit poetic. But those beautiful lines are
really the same direct advice and timeless, perspective-changing
observations as the others.
“Try in vain with empty talk / to separate the essences of things
/ and say how each thing truly is.”
“Applicants for wisdom / do what I have done: / inquire within.”
“Character is fate.”
“What eyes witness / ears believe on hearsay.”
“The crops are sold / for money spent on food.”
Heraclitus is considered a key influence in Stoic thought. Marcus
Aurelius, for example, makes numerous references to Heraclitus in
Meditations (
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). As one scholar put it in explaining Heraclitus’s influence on
Stoicism, Marcus considered Heraclitus “as one of the great
sages.”
Courage Under Fire: Testing Epictetus’s Doctrines in a Laboratory
of Human Behavior (
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) by James Stockdale
In 1965, United States Navy fighter pilot James Stockdale was
captured by the North Vietnamese where he remained a prisoner of
war for the next seven years; two of which were spent wearing leg
irons in solitary confinement. Years later, Stockdale would write
and lecture extensively on Epictetus’s Enchiridion (
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) which he credits for providing the mindset and strength
necessary to endure years of torture. Stockdale’s exemplary
behavior during imprisonment is an embodiment of how Stoicism can
provide us with a framework for dealing with extreme adversity
and the obstacles that come in our way.
We had James Stockdale’s son, Sid Stockdale, on The Daily Stoic
Podcast to discuss the legacy of his father. Listen to that
episode here (
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).
To learn more about the life and legacy of James Stockdale, watch
our video: The Incredible Stoicism of Admiral James Stockdale (
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The Inner Citadel (
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) and Philosophy as a Way of Life (
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) by Pierre Hadot
Both of these are academic, yet fascinating books. The Inner
Citadel (
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) is a biography of Marcus Aurelius, which should be next on your
list if you loved Meditations (
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). Philosophy as a Way of Life (
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) explores different ‘spiritual exercises’—ideas and thought
exercises from philosophy to help you make better decisions and
live a better life. Don’t let the academic aspect scare
you—Hadot’s books are incredibly readable and the ideas will stay
with you.
Rome’s Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato, Mortal Enemy of
Caesar (
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) by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni
Cato (
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) has certainly earned his place in the history books—he was the
Stoic senator who led the opposition against Julius Caesar who
then killed himself rather than live under a dictator. Cato was a
soldier, a politician, a thinker and most important, an example.
His unassailable place in Roman culture is best seen in the old
proverbial expression used to make excuses: “We’re not all
Catos.” There’s a lot to learn from a politician who couldn’t be
corrupted. A philosopher who refused to write. A millionaire who
lived among his soldiers and people. He’s a man of a different
epoch, but a man that we, without a question, are better off
knowing. (Listen to our interview with the author of Rome’s Last
Citizen (
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), Jimmy Soni, here (
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)).
Of course, you are also welcome to check out some of our most
popular videos (
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), interviews (
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Arnold Schwarzenegger On Finding Ways To Be Useful (
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Casey Neistat On The Purpose That Parenthood Gives You (
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A Stoic Response to Anger (
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A Stoic Response to Rejection (
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Stoicism for Modern Stresses: 5 Lessons from Cato (
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On The Shortness of Life: An Introduction to Seneca (
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In today’s Introduction To Stoicism, we’ll discuss Why Ancient
Philosophy Is Essential For Modern Life.
When most people think of “philosophy,” their eyes glaze over.
It’s the last thing they want, let alone something they need.
But this, as you already know, is silly and naive.
Philosophy is not just about talking, lecturing, or reading long,
dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action
use—and have used throughout history—to solve their problems and
achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom, but on the
battlefield, in the Forum, and at court.
As Thoreau put it, “to be a philosopher is not merely to have
subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school...it is to solve some
of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but
practically.”
That kind of philosophy has been jotted down (and practiced) by
slaves, poets, emperors, politicians and soldiers, as well as
ordinary people to help with their own problems and those of
their friends, family and followers for thousands of years. This
wisdom is still here, available to us.
The best of which is Stoicism—long considered the most practical
of all philosophies.
A brief synopsis on this particular school of Hellenistic
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)) is happiness and judgment should be based on behavior, rather
than words. That we don’t control and cannot rely on external
events, only ourselves and our responses.
But at the very root of the thinking, there is a very simple,
though not easy, way of living: Take the obstacles in your life
and turn them into your advantage (
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): “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish
things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the
choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I
find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”
Amazingly, we still have access to these ideas despite the fact
that many of the greatest Stoics never wrote anything down for
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) definitely didn’t. Marcus Aurelius never intended for
Meditations (
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) come to us by way of a note-taking student.
And so it was from their example, their actions, that we find
real philosophy.
Because other than their shared study of Stoicism, the Stoics
were all men of action—and that’s not a coincidence. Marcus
Aurelius (
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), the moral example for many philosophers, defended the Roman
republic with Stoic bravery until his defiant death. Even
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), the lecturer, had no cushy tenure—he was a former slave.
And this shouldn’t really be that surprising…
The modern day philosopher and writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb
defines a Stoic as someone who “transforms fear into prudence,
pain into information, mistakes into initiation and desire into
undertaking.”
Using this definition as a model, we can see that throughout the
centuries Stoicism has been a common thread though some of
history’s great leaders. It has been practiced by Kings,
presidents, artists, writers and entrepreneurs. Both historical
and modern figures illustrate Stoicism as a way of life.
Prussian King, Frederick the Great, was said to ride with the
works of the Stoics in his saddlebags because they could, in his
words, “sustain you in misfortune.” Meanwhile, Montaigne, the
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), had a line from Epictetus carved into the beam above the study
in which he spent most of his time. George Washington was
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) by his neighbors at age seventeen, and afterwards, put on a
play about Cato to inspire his men in that dark winter at Valley
Forge. Thomas Jefferson had a copy of Seneca on his nightstand
when he died.
The economist Adam Smith’s theories on the interconnectedness of
the world—capitalism—were significantly influenced by the
Stoicism that he studied as a schoolboy under a teacher who had
translated Marcus Aurelius’ works. The political thinker, John
Stuart Mill, wrote of Marcus Aurelius and Stoicism in his famous
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), calling it “the highest ethical product of the ancient mind.”
Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an ardent abolitionist and Civil
War hero who led the first black regiment in the Union army and
was a mentor of Emily Dickinson. He also happened to be an early
translator of Epictetus.
But the list of those influenced by the Stoics goes on…
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Amazon, and of the eight books he brought on the journey, two
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Indeed, Teddy seems to represent the temperance and self control
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) of the philosophy beautifully when he said, “What such a man
needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he
can get only by practice”. Likewise, he expressed the necessity
of action advocated by the Stoics when he famously remarked:
“We must all wear out or rust out, everyone of us. My choice is
to wear out.”
Today’s leaders are no different, with many finding their
inspiration from the ancient texts. James Mattis, the former
Secretary of Defense, carried Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (
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) is one of two books he travels with and has read it more than
one hundred times over the course of his life. Tim Ferriss, the
bestselling author, podcast host and angel investor, has been one
of the best known and strongest modern day proponents of Stoicism
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You see, Stoicism—and philosophy—are not the domains of idle
professors. They are the succor of the successful, and the men
and women of action.
The mantle is ours to pick up and carry.
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