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The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living Hardcover – October 18, 2016
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From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a beautiful daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller.
Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise.
The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms.
By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.
- Print length416 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPortfolio
- Publication dateOctober 18, 2016
- Dimensions5.8 x 1.41 x 8.54 inches
- ISBN-100735211736
- ISBN-13978-0735211735
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—The Wall Street Journal
"Whether you're a lowly cubicle slave or a US Senator, this book will help you find your still center."
—Gregory Hays, translator of The Modern Library's edition of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
"A generous gift of guidance on modern living culled from a canon of wisdom hatched long ago."
—Maria Popova, editor of Brain Pickings
"A richly rewarding spring of practical wisdom to help you focus on what's in your control, eliminate false and limiting beliefs, and take more effective action. Make The Daily Stoic your guide and you will grow in clarity, effectiveness, and serenity each day!"
—Jack Canfield, co-author of The Success Principles™ and the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series
"The Daily Stoic is a treasure for managing our choices, overcoming self-deception, and learning to act according to the true worth of things while keeping the common good always in view. Caring for the soul in this way makes not only better people, but a stronger society too."
—Joseph A. Maciariello, Professor Emeritus at The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management; author of The Daily Drucker, The Effective Executive in Action, and A Year with Peter Drucker
"The Daily Stoic offers all who seek a calm, wise life a daily spiritual anchor. This book will keep you strong across dark times and steady and clear no matter what your circumstances happen to be. Keep this treasure close and it will care for you.”
—Sharon Lebell, interpreter of The Art of Living by Epictetus
About the Author
Stephen Hanselman has worked for more than three decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher and literary agent. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, where he received a master's degree while also studying extensively in Harvard's philosophy department. He lives with his family in South Orange, New Jersey.
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"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . ."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 2.5.4-5
The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can't. What we have influence over and what we do not. A flight is delayed because of weather-no amount of yelling at an airline representative will end a storm. No amount of wishing will make you taller or shorter or born in a different country. No matter how hard you try, you can't make someone like you. And on top of that, time spent hurling yourself at these immovable objects is time not spent on the things we can change.
The recovery community practices something called the Serenity Prayer: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Addicts cannot change the abuse suffered in childhood. They cannot undo the choices they have made or the hurt they have caused. But they can change the future-through the power they have in the present moment. As Epictetus said, they can control the choices they make right now.
The same is true for us today. If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle.
January 2nd Education Is Freedom
"What is the fruit of these teachings? Only the most beautiful and proper harvest of the truly educated-tranquility, fearlessness, and freedom. We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 2.1.21-23a
Why did you pick up this book? Why pick up any book? Not to seem smarter, not to pass time on the plane, not to hear what you want to hear-there are plenty of easier choices than reading.
No, you picked up this book because you are learning how to live. Because you want to be freer, fear less, and achieve a state of peace. Education-reading and meditating on the wisdom of great minds-is not to be done for its own sake. It has a purpose.
Remember that imperative on the days you start to feel distracted, when watching television or having a snack seems like a better use of your time than reading or studying philosophy. Knowledge-self-knowledge in particular-is freedom.
January 3rd Be Ruthless to the 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
One of the hardest things to do in life is to say "No." 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 a commitment 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, how you can feel less busy? Start by learning the power of "No!"-as in "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 some 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 your life-the life that you want.
January 4th The Big Three
"All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment;
action for the common good in the present moment;
and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way."
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 9.6
Perception, Action, Will. Those are the three overlapping but critical disciplines of Stoicism (as well as the organization of this book and yearlong journey you've just begun). There's more to the philosophy certainly-and we could spend all day talking about the unique beliefs of the various Stoics: "This is what Heraclitus thought . . ." "Zeno is from Citium, a city in Cyprus, and he believed . . ." But would such facts really help you day to day? What clarity does trivia provide?
Instead, the following little reminder sums up the three most essential parts of Stoic philosophy worth carrying with you every day, into every decision:
Control your perceptions.
Direct your actions properly.
Willingly accept what's outside your control.
That's all we need to do.
January 5th 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
Law 29 of The 48 Laws of Power is: Plan All The Way To The End. Robert Greene writes, "By 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 thinking far ahead." The second habit in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is: begin with an end in mind.
Having an end in mind is no guarantee that you'll reach it-no Stoic would tolerate that assumption-but not having an end in mind is a guarantee you won't. To the Stoics, oi?sis (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, when you've gotten off track, if you've never defined what those things are?
The answer is that you cannot. And so you are driven into failure-or worse, into madness by the oblivion of directionlessness.
January 6th Where, Who, What, and Why
"A person who doesn't know what the universe is, doesn't know where they are. A person who doesn't know their purpose in life doesn't know who they are or what the universe is. A person who doesn't know any one of these things doesn't know why they are here. So what to make of people who seek or avoid the praise of those who have no knowledge of where or who they are?"
-Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.52
The late comedian Mitch Hedberg had a funny story he told in his act. Sitting down for an on-air interview, a radio DJ asked him, "So, who are you?" In that moment, he had to think, Is this guy really deep or did I drive to the wrong station?
How often are we asked a simple question like "Who are you?" or "What do you do?" or "Where are you from?" Considering it a superficial question-if we even consider it at all-we don't bother with more than a superficial answer.
But, gun to their head, most people couldn't give much in the way of a substantive answer. Could you? Have you taken the time to get clarity about who you are and what you stand for? Or are you too busy chasing unimportant things, mimicking the wrong influences, and following disappointing or unfulfilling or nonexistent paths?
January 7th Seven Clear Functions of the Mind
"The proper work of the mind is the exercise of choice, refusal, yearning, repulsion, preparation, purpose, and assent. What then can pollute and clog the mind's proper functioning? Nothing but its own corrupt decisions."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 4.11.6-7
Let's break down each one of those tasks:
Choice-to do and think right
Refusal-of temptation
Yearning-to be better
Repulsion-of negativity, of bad influences, of what isn't true
Preparation-for what lies ahead or whatever may happen
Purpose-our guiding principle and highest priority
Assent-to be free of deception about what's inside and outside our control (and be ready to accept the latter)
This is what the mind is here to do. We must make sure that it does-and see everything else as pollution or a corruption.
January 8th Seeing Our Addictions
"We must give up many things to which we are addicted, considering them to be good. Otherwise, courage will vanish, which should continually test itself. Greatness of soul will be lost, which can't stand out unless it disdains as petty what the mob regards as most desirable.
-Seneca, Moral Letters, 74.12b-13
What we consider to be harmless indulgences can easily become full-blown addictions. We start with coffee in the morning, and soon enough we can't start the day without it. We check our email because it's part of our job, and soon enough we feel the phantom buzz of the phone in our pocket every few seconds. Soon enough, these harmless habits are running our lives.
The little compulsions and drives we have not only chip away at our freedom and sovereignty, they cloud our clarity. We think we're in control-but are we really? As one addict put it, addiction is when we've "lost the freedom to abstain." Let us reclaim that freedom.
What that addiction is for you can vary: Soda? Drugs? Complaining? Gossip? The Internet? Biting your nails? But you must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.
January 9th What We Control and What We Don't
"Some things are in our control, while others are not. We control our opinion, choice, desire, aversion, and, in a word, everything of our own doing. We don't control our body, property, reputation, position, and, in a word, everything not of our own doing. Even more, the things in our control are by nature free, unhindered, and unobstructed, while those not in our control are weak, slavish, can be hindered, and are not our own."
-Epictetus, Enchiridion, 1.1-2
Today, you won't control the external events that happen. Is that scary? A little, but it's balanced when we see that we can control our opinion about those events. You decide whether they're good or bad, whether they're fair or unfair. You don't control the situation, but you control what you think about it.
See how that works? Every single thing that is outside your control-the outside world, other people, luck, karma, whatever-still presents a corresponding area that is in your control. This alone gives us plenty to manage, plenty of power.
Best of all, an honest understanding of what is within our control provides real clarity about the world: all we have is our own mind. Remember that today when you try to extend your reach outward-that it's much better and more appropriately directed inward.
January 10th If You Want to Be Steady
"The essence of good is a certain kind of reasoned choice; just as the essence of evil is another kind. What about externals, then? They are only the raw material for our reasoned choice, which finds its own good or evil in working with them. How will it find the good? Not by marveling at the material! For if judgments about the material are straight that makes our choices good, but if those judgments are twisted, our choices turn bad."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 1.29.1-3
The Stoics seek steadiness, stability, and tranquility-traits most of us aspire to but seem to experience only fleetingly. How do they accomplish this elusive goal? How does one embody eustatheia (the word Arrian used to describe this teaching of Epictetus)?
Well, it's not luck. It's not by eliminating outside influences or running away to quiet and solitude. Instead, it's about filtering the outside world through the straightener of our judgment. That's what our reason can do-it can take the crooked, confusing, and overwhelming nature of external events and make them orderly.
However, if our judgments are crooked because we don't use reason, then everything that follows will be crooked, and we will lose our ability to steady ourselves in the chaos and rush of life. If you want to be steady, if you want clarity, proper judgment is the best way.
January 11th If You Want to Be Unsteady
"For if a person shifts their caution to their own reasoned choices and the acts of those choices, they will at the same time gain the will to avoid, but if they shift their caution away from their own reasoned choices to things not under their control, seeking to avoid what is controlled by others, they will then be agitated, fearful, and unstable."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 2.1.12
The image of the Zen philosopher is the monk up in the green, quiet hills, or in a beautiful temple on some rocky cliff. The Stoics are the antithesis of this idea. Instead, they are the man in the marketplace, the senator in the Forum, the brave wife waiting for her soldier to return from battle, the sculptor busy in her studio. Still, the Stoic is equally at peace.
Epictetus is reminding you that serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment. If you seek to avoid all disruptions to tranquility-other people, external events, stress-you will never be successful. Your problems will follow you wherever you run and hide. But if you seek to avoid the harmful and disruptive judgments that cause those problems, then you will be stable and steady wherever you happen to be.
January 12th The One Path to Serenity
"Keep this thought at the ready at daybreak, and through the day and night-there is only one path to happiness, and that is in giving up all outside of your sphere of choice, regarding nothing else as your possession, surrendering all else to God and Fortune."
-Epictetus, Discourses, 4.4.39
This morning, remind yourself of what is in your control and what's not in your control. Remind yourself to focus on the former and not the latter.
Before lunch, remind yourself that the only thing you truly possess is your ability to make choices (and to use reason and judgment when doing so). This is the only thing that can never be taken from you completely.
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- Publisher : Portfolio (October 18, 2016)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 416 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0735211736
- ISBN-13 : 978-0735211735
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.8 x 1.41 x 8.54 inches
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Ryan Holiday is one of the world's bestselling living philosophers. His books like The Obstacle Is the Way,Ego Is the Enemy,The Daily Stoic, and the #1 New York Times bestseller Stillness Is the Key appear in more than 40 languages and have sold more than 5 million copies. Together, they've spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists. He lives outside Austin with his wife and two boys...and a small herd of cows and donkeys and goats. His bookstore, The Painted Porch, sits on historic Main St in Bastrop, Texas.
Stephen Hanselman has worked for four decades in publishing as a bookseller, publisher, and literary agent. He is co-author of the #1 Wall Street Journal and New York Times bestseller LIVES OF THE STOICS, as well as the #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller THE DAILY STOIC and THE DAILY STOIC JOURNAL. He is a graduate of Harvard Divinity School where he received a master's degree while studying extensively in Harvard's philosophy department. He lives with his wife, twin sons, and a Beagle named Luigi in South Orange, New Jersey.
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I wish I had discovered Stoicism 30 years ago when I was a young man just starting my life and career. The good news is I can pass this on to my children and grandchildren.
I have made gifts of several of Ryan’s books to family. Ryan puts the Stoic philosophy into a more understandable and relatable for the modern world. Stoicism is no less important now, in fact I would argue ar argue it is
1.A triumph becomes a trial, a trial becomes a triumph. Life can change in an instant.
2.Good habits drive out bad habits.
3.Want nothing = have everything.
There are still so many other quotes that we can get, internalize as part of our wisdom and apply in our lives.
Thank you Sirs Ryan and Stephen for this book. 😀
Reading a page of this book as part of my morning ritual everyday through the year has been my leveling factor. The Daily Stoic is age old bite size wisdom from the Roman emperors and greats such as Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca, Cato etc and excellently interpreted by Ryan Holiday. I'm going to continue reading this in 2023 and beyond as long as I have the ability to read, understand and internalize.
It isn't a book, it is a way of life. Cannot recommend it enough and can't be more grateful to have stumbled on this gem.
And "it always matters"
This is a great meditation or devotional, you choose. It's a way to fortify your practice.
This book offers daily “kick-starts” that will help set your mind each day. They’ll help you filter out a lot of mental nonsense - your own or others, lol - and stay grounded and focused.
The daily readings are brief: a quote from a Stoic philosopher, followed by a brief reflection from the author.
If you’re looking to start the day with something inspiring but not religious, I think you will enjoy this book.
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Though they are in English they are firmly aimed at a US audience. They are full of references to Lincoln, Washington and other individuals from the short history of the United States. This is jarring and an annoyance. With a wealth of history to choose from it's a shame that the author was unable to find better common reference points for English speakers.

I have to say the daily musings on both, particularly death completely altered the way I was coping (catastophising) and as a result I saw the diagnosis for what it was, got my head in order and accepted whatever was to come along. After almost a year of treatments, including a full gastrectomy, two lots of chemo and radiotherapy I’m still using the book daily and referring back to it whenever I feel the need.
Ok this is probably an extreme case for a review but for £8, the price of a few coffees, it’s been invaluable. Whatever is round the corner for me in the future who knows but it’s pointless worrying now about it. Buy it if you want some real world perspective on life and your role in it, you won’t be disappointed.

It's arrogance is also unbridled, within the first 2 paragraphs you are being told that watching tv or eating, thats right, the act of eating, are wastes of your time and that studying "philosophy" should be your utmost focus as studying philosophy is apparently the one and only form of "freedom" in this reality.
Another way in which it is vomit inducingly arrogant is how frequently the "author" blows smoke up his own a to inflate his ego, no more than 5 pages in and you already start reading paragraphs that start by reminding you of the basic principles of stoicism but then drop those matters and say things like "as well as the organization of this book". The book is about stoicism and claims to contain "some of the greatest wisdomn in the history of the world" but this "wisdom" keeps getting interrupted by the author trying to shill a book that you have already bought. Paragraphs are constantly interrupted by the author chirping in to say " hey, yeah stoicism is cool and all and those quotes sure are something but you NEED this book in your days, you need to read what I have organized"
It is also self contradicting a ridiculous amount.First extoling the virtues of accepting the things we cant change and focusing on the things we can and as mentioned outright infers that sitting around reading philosophy is more important than even feeding yourself yet just a couple of pages later we get an entire page dedicated to telling us that we need to have plans and those plans need to be elaborate and everything needs to be planned to the bitter end because we need to have plans so that we can spend every second of the day focusing on those and those alone........so which is it? should I be reading philosophy because that is the one path to "freedom" or should I be out in the real world working myself to the bone for a distant goal because apparently the end is the only thing that matters and there is no time for happines along the way?
Another example of self contradiction: It gives a quote from Marcus Aurelius "A person who doesn't know their purpose in life doesn't know who they are or what the universe is". So even at the early stage in the book where this quote appears we have been told that reading philosophy is more important than feeding ourselves, that we need to have all things planned out because apparently life is smooth sailing and planning every iota is an easy task and we should then spend every waking second of every day fixated on that end target at the expense of ignoring literally everyone and everything else and now it has been reinforced that if we do not have our entire lives already planned out that we posses " no knowledge". Stoicism is not the principle of easy living and having everything laid out for you start to finish, its about virtue, about remaining composed even in trying times, its about using your own perception to live the best life you personally can. If you are 20 years old and dont have the next 50 years of your life planned out down to the last second that doesnt mean you cant embody the principles of stoicism.
This one is more likely to be subjective but I will include it here anyway, perhaps I am not a "stoic" as per this books definition. It talks about accepting not being able to control outside forces and events but controlling our reaction to them, which is largely useless. If someone at work gets promoted you can choose whether to dwell on it and be bitter or be happy for that persons success, there are occasions where you can think one way or the other, but mostly that is not the case. If you hear a news story about a fatal car crash what then? Unless you are an actual psycopath there is no way to spin that in your own mind as being a good event that happened that day and you are now better off for hearing it.
There are numerous pages that open with something along the lines of "the famous such and such once told a story", the author then drops that, doesnt give any information about what said story was or the context but finishes off the page acting as though they have just dropped some mind blowing knowledge that will forever change your perspective of life and of yourself but factually they said literally nothing.
Here is one page in particular that stuck with me after finishing the book and not for good reasons. One page talks about the "circle of control" and reminds us to focus on what we can control and filter what we cant, it goes on to say that the only thing in our circle is our mind, that even our physical bodies are not entirely within our control and gives 2 examples. 1: We could be struck with an illness or impairment, ok fine, that is fair to say.
2: "you coud be travelling in a foregin country and be thrown in jail" One of the dumbest sentences I have read in my entire life. How on earth is commiting a crime big enough to land you in jail not in your control? on top of that how is commiting a felony in any way,shape or form on par with being inflicted with a physical impairment?
It is complete and utter tripe, it is something people want to have on their shelves to act like they are high brow when in reality the substance of the book is about as vapid as a colour by numbers on the back of a childs cereal box.
Stoicism is *not* the discipline of forsaking literally everything else, including the most basic survival instinct (eating) to spend every conceivable hour staring at a book, which is the idealogoyu that this book prattles on about for the better part of 400 pages. You can watch tv, you can have a snack, you can enjoy the lttle things in life, that doesnt mean you are opposing the principle beleifs of stoicism.
It's self contradicting, judgemental, hypocritical and overall just very very dumb. Even if you have the patience to read through the never ending stream of blatant contradictions, self importance, dead end paragraphs and instantly dropped references you will not learn anything from this book. If anyone has read this and somehow truly come away with it feeling in any way better for having read it, good for them but personally I do not get it, it is a very vapid, inconsistent and more often than not incorrect interpretation of stoicism

The 366 meditations offer a page a day of stoic wisdom. No complaints so far it's all been good stuff, some has made me think again and been helpful. I think I am going to like stoicism.
The Stoics had the view that life can be very difficult!
Stoicism has just a few central teachings. It sets out to remind us of how unpredictable the world can be. How brief our moment of life is. How to be steadfast, and strong, and in control of yourself. And finally, that the source of our dissatisfaction lies in our impulsive dependency on our reflexive senses rather than logic.
Stoicism doesn’t concern itself with complicated theories about the world, but with helping us overcome destructive emotions and act on what can be acted upon. It’s built for action, not endless debate.
Stoics take time each day to look inwards and reflect on our shortcomings and review how the day went and see if there is anything we could have done better. Doing this daily helps us to refine our habits towards what we really want to do with our lives, pushes us to do more and see obstacles as something to be overcome.
I havent made a huge study of the stoics yet but what I have discovered has been good and is helping me to give life direction and feel a sense of purpose. I already feel more in control and satisfied because of it.

This book is more self-help than all the other self-help books put together. It's not 'preachy' just practical. The format is a ideal. Each day of the year has a quote from a famous Stoic and brief comment on the quote. It doesn't tell you 'do this and that will happen'. It asks you to ask questions of yourself. Two or three minutes reading in the morning and a whole day of thinking. You will get out of this what you put into it. If you're new to Stoicism the views may surprise you. If you're an old hand Stoic it's a great way to start the day.
This book could change your life. To what degree is up to you.