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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

TED Radio Hour

Using ancient philosophy to cope with your modern problems

Socrates, by asking them questions, by teaching them philosophy, helped them realize they had a lot more options than they might have believed they had based on who was in power.

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A Month of the BEST Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

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What To Do When Life Doesn’t Go as Planned | Jim Collins on the Daily Stoic Podcast

When he was there, he didn't know. He didn't know if this would be the end of his life, right? I mean, he didn't know for certain if he would get out.

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Stoic lessons from cemeteries across the world

Legacy is for everyone but you. This beautiful cemetery, this is for the people who loved those people. It doesn't do them any good. But what of the time they wasted? What of the wrong things they valued? You want to think about how you're spending your time now. Are you living now? Are you appreciating it now?

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Arthur Brooks' Ultimate Philosophy Masterclass | The Daily Stoic Podcast

A man can bear any what as long as he has a why. His whole point was that meaning is everything.

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I explained Stoicism to the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks

The stoics believe that there was really no such thing as obstacles. There was only opportunities. Right? This thing is presenting you an opportunity to do something.

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Stoic lessons from baseball

The obstacle is the way. Right? Everything is a chance for excellence. That's what the Stoics mean when they say the obstacle is the way.

It's Been a Minute

The morbid lifelessness of modern beauty

Aging is another word for living. Anti-aging is anti-life. Death is sort of like a natural ending point for that.

Pivot

MAGA Civil War Erupts Over Iran | Pivot

Introspection is how we move forward as a species. It was like Socrates, Plato, Marcus Aurelius, like it's been around.

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The Stoic Reason To Turn Down 1 Million Dollars

You can't be a part-time person of principle. And I say certain things are important and it's not about um loyalty cuz I don't really believe in it as a as a thing... but this was about me and what I thought was the thing that was most resonant with who I am.

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If you want to accomplish something big, watch this Stoic advice

Wisdom is not a solitary pursuit. You have to find your circle. You have to find people that make you better.

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How to Focus (From the Stoics)

You think you're taking revenge bedtime by staying up and scrolling your phone or watching TV or or even reading, which is isn't is hardly a sin. But by staying up late, you are making it harder to get up early.

The Knowledge Project

[Outliers] J.W. Marriott: Building an Empire Without a Master Plan

his refusal to rely on forces he couldn't control allowed him to expand during the Great Depression while his competitors folded

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How a Stoic Handles Change

You will get knocked off course. You will lapse on a resolution. You will fall off the wagon. You will get out of sorts. That's unavoidable. What matters is how quickly you return, how fast you find the rhythm again.

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How to Reset Your Life (According to the Stoics)

It's not about now. It's not about what's happening now. It's not about what it's taking out of you now. It's about what it's giving you. Right? Before it happened, you were scared. Before it happened, you were sheltered. Before it happened, you were soft. Before it happened, you were dependent. You were all these things and more. But after, right, after the breakup, after the bankruptcy, after the pandemic, after those rough couple years, after things didn't go your way, well, now you're something different. Now you're something new. You are more. You are stronger. You are braver.