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Watch This On Election Day

I'm not letting cynical people make me cynical. I'm not letting insane people make me insane. In some ways, I think this is kind of the hardest task in the world right now to not let them make you like them. To not let cruelty harden you, to not let stupidity make you bitter, to not let outrage pull you down.

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43 Stoic Rules That Will Change How You Live

It's not that life is short, it's that we waste a lot of it because we are afraid to say no, because we don't have the confidence to say no because we don't have the discipline to say no.

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How To Use The 48 Laws of Power In Your Career | Robert Greene

Your job is not about your ego. It's not about getting attention. It's not about making yourself look great. It's about making that person you're working for look great and making their life easier

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The Harshest Life Lessons You'll Ever Learn

What controls your aversions and desires controls you. And if that person is not you, it doesn't matter how strong you are, how rich you are, how famous you are, how powerful you are, you are a slave.

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The 10 Most Popular Passages From The Daily Stoic

We don't get to choose our parents, but we do get to choose whose children we are going to be. We are fortunate that some of the greatest men and women in history have recorded their wisdom, folly in books and journals.

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We Have Entered A New Gilded Age, This Is Why | Nathaniel Philbrick

Those who uh don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. And I am here before you today to say even if you know your history, you're doomed to repeat it. Because the you know the if when you're in the moment, you have no historical perspective. You see things in terms of your your impulses, your your you know what's good for you.

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10 Stoic Lessons It Took Me 10 Years to Understand

The point of stoicism isn't to make you more productive. It's not to make you richer. The Stoics believed that the purpose of the philosophy was to make you a better person. Stoicism isn't just about what it can do for you. It also asks a lot of you.

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The Most Important Things You Need To Stop Doing

The magical thing when you do less, when you eliminate the inessential, when you stop saying yes to things that don't matter, when you stop getting caught up in busy work and nonsense, he says you get the double benefit of doing the essential things better.

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Why The Greatest Authors Still Understand You | Rich Cohen

Most of the people in the past thought that they were doing the right thing. So in order to judge them it's not just that you're having more information and everything. You have to believe that you are doing the right thing right now. You have to believe that what you're doing the things you're not even thinking of won't be judged very harshly in 30 or 40 years by your grandkids.

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7 Stoic Strategies To Deal With Jerks

Rosa Parks doesn't suddenly decide to sit down on the bus one day. This was the result of an incredible amount of discipline. And that discipline was the result of an incredible amount of training.

Office Hours

The $750,000 Head Start Rich Kids Get | Office Hours

Happiness is not only a function of what you can get or what you have. It's a function of an absence of anxiety of what can be taken from you.

Book of the Day

'Odyssey' translator Emily Wilson on her book of essays 'Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea'

I have no way to tell what any of the words that I speak, that are feathered things on the breath of air, how will they be received and how will my chaos be dispersed to the winds. I have no way to control any of that.

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9 Stoic Lessons From Roman Politics

Because if wise people, if good people, if people who try to live and act with virtue, if they don't seek public office, if they don't participate in public life, if they don't vote, if they don't speak out, you know what is happening? They're ceding that floor to the people who are not.

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What It Means To Be A Good Man Today With Tom Junod

The Christian argument is like don't sin or you will go to hell. And I think the stoic argument is don't sin or you will live in hell.

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I Ran 50 Kilometers Through Rome's Stoic Sites

Trophies are not for you. You do hard things because doing hard things is good for you. The benefit is baked in in having done them.

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The Lesson Jet Li Spent His Entire Life Learning

I said why I just do 700 better than thousand what what's the key words I always thinking always thinking

Fresh Air

Lisa Kudrow

You can't be humiliated if you don't allow it. You have to agree to be humiliated. And I never signed up for that.

Daily Stoic

How To Deal With Difficult People With Comedian David Cross

How do you not let it change you or make you despair or make you bitter or make you not radicalize you? You know, like how do you how do you sort of stay on the the path? That's what it's kind of all about.

Daily Stoic

Who Was Epictetus?

And that his philosophy would ultimately be about freedom and the triumph of the human spirit is a testament to not just his character, but the truth of the ideas he was writing about.

EconTalk

Ben Sasse on Faith, Family, and Facing Death

it closes with a meditation on raging against the dying of the light while walking with your head bowed.

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11 Final Takeaways From The Odyssey

Senica 2,000 years ago in one of his letters is lamenting just people totally missing the point of the Odyssey. And I think it's fascinating to think that 2,000 years ago, people were having these debates about where was Troy, where were the different islands, did it actually happen or not? Just like today, we're like, is Homer really one person? Was he blind or not?

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11 Final Stoic Lessons From The Odyssey

Senica 2,000 years ago in one of his letters is lamenting just people totally missing the point of the Odyssey. He's saying like if what you're debating about the Odyssey is not the philosophical questions, then you're just engaging in culture war nonsense.

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11 Final Stoic Lessons From The Odyssey

Odysius in his odyssey is a reflection of the human undergoing any kind of ordeal, battling their sort of higher self and lower self, you know, the perils of hubris, the impossibility of ever returning home.

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Fighting Modern Corruption With Ancient Stoic Wisdom

We're in the middle of what you would call a moral inversion, where some of the worst people are getting the most attention and getting the furthest ahead. It almost looks like it's a bad strategy to be honest, to try to work hard, to try to do things at the the right pace, right? Everyone's looking for shortcuts. Everyone's seeing scams and sketchiness as as a success strategy, one that you can get away with.

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Fighting Modern Corruption With Ancient Stoic Wisdom

Corruption begets corruption. When other people are lying, when other people are cheating, when you see it happening all around you, people shrug their shoulders. They they say, "What the hell?" Right? We join in because we see other people doing it.

Book of the Day

Novels by Ben Reeves and Matt Haig look at life through the eyes of death (literally)

I really believe that just thinking about death that little bit more, especially for a story where we're safe, um it can just enrich every single day because you know in the back of your mind that's coming.

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Fighting Modern Corruption With Ancient Stoic Wisdom

Although other people couldn't hold him to account, he could hold himself to account every day as he sat down and looked at the pages of his philosophy texts and the pages of his journal.

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9 Stoic Habits To Change Your Life

The truth is that virtue is not different than any other skill. You don't have it or not have it. You do it or you don't do it. And you get better at it the more you do it. This is the fundamental insight of Aristotle, that excellence is not innate. It is a habit.

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The Fall Of The Roman Republic With Barry Strauss

I leaned towards princ too principled and clean for the world of politics but that makes him a mediocre politician.

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6 Stoic Rules To Beat Ego

Because you don't want to look stupid, you'll stay stupid or because you don't want to ask for help, you don't get help. Uh or you don't want to look like you want it too badly, so you don't get it.

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12 Lessons From Marcus Aurelius To Change Your Life

Ask yourself, am I afraid of death because I won't be able to do this anymore? People in the abstract want to live a long time and then you look at how they spend their days and it's on some of the dumbest imaginable, right? They spend it gossiping. They spend it complaining. They spend it working a job they don't like.

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How The Stoics Sparked The American Revolution

Gouverneur Morris would say that underneath Washington's calm demeanor was in fact incredible passions, and that his first and perhaps his greatest victory was not on the battlefield, but over these very passions.

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How The Stoics Sparked The American Revolution

Stoicism is not something you are, it's something you do, right? It's a practice. John Adams would say that Washington had a great self-command, but that required a great amount of work.

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Why You Have To Stand Up To Tyrants

You're going to have moments where comfort collides with your conscience where it collides with your career where there is corruption and temptation and it's probably safer and better to do what everyone else is doing. For Helvidius, philosophy was armor. It was preparation for this moment.

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14 Stoic Lessons Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Father

Let the boy be human for once. Says empire doesn't take away natural feeling. And so here is a moment of grace.

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Ways To Looksmaxx Like A Stoic

If your choices are beautiful, then you will be beautiful. We are the product of our choices. Beauty can't be separated from the process, from the regiment that creates it.

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A Stoic Masterclass for Ambitious People With Codie Sanchez

It's not a principle until it costs you something. We become less just as humans every time we remove ourselves a little bit further from the hand on the fire.

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Ways To Looksmaxx Like A Stoic

If your muscles are a result of steroids or neglecting your other responsibilities in life. If your physique is a result of starving yourself or actively harming yourself. If you are selfish and fragile and superficial, then you are ugly even if it manifests itself in some kind of temporary physical attractiveness.

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A Stoic's Guide To Looksmaxxing

If your choices are beautiful, then you will be beautiful. [...] If you are selfish and fragile and superficial, then you are ugly even if it manifests itself in some kind of temporary physical attractiveness.

Daily Stoic

The Stoic Mind Behind D-Day

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. He understood that you had to plan and anticipate and imagine every contingency. And yet, he also understood fundamentally this other Stoic idea, which is there some things in our control and some things aren't.

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7 Stoic Steps To Battle Addiction

Anything that you can't not do, the Stoics would say, is something you should look at with that kind of suspicion and aversion.

TED

5 Practical Ways to Take Control of Your Life | Jim VandeHei | TED

That all of them maniacally focus on controlling life's variables that you can control. You control you.

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Debater Center, Figma's Not Dead, 67 Year Old Founder, AI Monet Paintings

At 92, Warren Buffett said he ran out of gas. The spirit remained eager uh but the flesh became progressively weaker.

Hidden Brain

Radical Acceptance

Dave shares why accepting reality as it is can be so difficult — and why it's an essential first step in building a meaningful life.

Daily Stoic

How a Stoic Deals with Obnoxious People

We were born to work together like feet, hands, and eyes, like two rows of teeth, upper and lower. To obstruct each other is unnatural.

Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

Stoicism is not a way for you not to have to care about the consequences of the things that are happening around you. It's not a way to turn inward and turn away from other people, from what's happening in the world, from not having to care.

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

What he, if you read his speeches, he didn't want to tell people exactly how they should live their lives, but he wanted to help them realize that they had options that they were not even considering.

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

philosophy thrives when things are disrupted. It is totally not an accident that great figures like Socrates came on the scene in eras of civil war and major disruption because that's when people start to wake up a little bit and realize like, oh my gosh, maybe this is not the good life.