Book · 2016 · Business & Economics
The Daily Stoic
366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living
#133 of 16,760 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts
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I got that quote from a book that I've been reading called The Daily Stoic and that book has been very helpful for me.
What they say about it
- Reads daily passage“read a passage from The Daily Stoic”3
- Daily practice format“one page a day”3
The best things said about it
I discovered Stoicism. I began reading The Daily Stoic every day.
Right before I do the gratitude list, I read a passage from The Daily Stoic.
I got your book The Daily Stoic which I just loved and I have my copy here.
Maria Semple The Daily Stoic · Apr 2026 Baby i get the email i get the journal i get the daily stoic the the daily that's part of my morning routine is reading one page a day the leather the black leather one.
Where and when it comes up
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How it comes up
17 people who brought it up
- Jaimie Alexander2 mentions · 2 recs
- Arishankar Muthenadi1 mention · 1 rec
- Brennan Cordell Smith1 mention · 1 rec
- Steven Bartlett1 mention · 1 rec
- Troy Baker1 mention · 1 rec
- Ryan Holiday14 mentions
Ron Chernow4 mentions- Shaan Puri3 mentions
- Camila Cabello2 mentions
Chris Williamson2 mentions- Sean O'Malley2 mentions
- Adam Kinzinger1 mention
Why people recommend it
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman is a popular daily devotional offering 365 days of ancient Stoic wisdom, practical reflections, and actionable insights. Brennan Cordell Smith shared on The Daily Stoic that he purchased the book and its accompanying journal to anchor his deep dive into Stoic philosophy, a sentiment echoed by Arishankar Muthenadi, who incorporated daily reading of the text into his routine. Jaimie Alexander discussed with Ryan Holiday on the podcast how she reads a daily passage every single morning before formulating her gratitude list, even bringing her physical copy to be signed. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan and Sean O'Malley praised Holiday's thoughtful breakdown of Stoic principles, with O'Malley noting that he religiously reads the book every morning, especially during intense fight training camps. Steven Bartlett mentioned the book's wonderful daily impact on The Diary Of A CEO, and Troy Baker expressed deep appreciation for the philosophical insights shared by Holiday. Additionally, Ryan Holiday himself reflected on The Daily Stoic on his own podcast, recalling how reviewing the first draft deepened his personal understanding of the Stoic concept of the common good.
Every mention
Jaimie Alexander I read somewhere that you read like read a stoic passage every day. Okay, I do actually brought my daily st… 2
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“I read somewhere that you read like read a stoic passage every day. Okay, I do actually brought my daily stoic book because whether you like it or not, you're going to sign it.”
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“Right before I do the gratitude list, I read a passage from the Daily Stoic. Oh, wow. And then I take that and I think about it”
Arishankar Muthenadi I discovered Stoicism. I began reading the Daily Stoic every day. I read, The Obstacle is the Way. 1
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“I discovered Stoicism. I began reading the Daily Stoic every day. I read, The Obstacle is the Way.”
Brennan Cordell Smith And about every book I could get my hands on, I read, I studied, I bought the Daily Stoic and the Daily Sto… 1
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“And about every book I could get my hands on, I read, I studied, I bought the Daily Stoic and the Daily Stoic Journal and just really dove in.”
Steven Bartlett she's also reading your um daily it's the daily stoic book 1
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“she's also reading your um daily it's the daily stoic book”
Troy Baker This is—I can't wait, but I wish that I had gotten this tattoo after I started reading your books. 1
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“This is—I can't wait, but I wish that I had gotten this tattoo after I started reading your books.”
Ryan Holiday It wasn't until we were sitting down and looking at the completed first draft of The Daily Stoic that it hi… 14
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“It wasn't until we were sitting down and looking at the completed first draft of The Daily Stoic that it hit me that Mark Stoic talks about the idea of the common good something like 80 times in meditations, right?”
Discussed
“One of the interesting things about Daily Stoic as a book, accidentally, as a page a day thing, is that it mirrors what stoicism is supposed to be. It's supposed to be a daily practice. Seneca in one of his letters to Lucilius said like, "My goal is to find one thing every day, just a little thing that makes”
Discussed
“I was just talking to Steve Hanselman, my co-writer about this. One of the things we wanted to change in the book is that we didn't talk enough about virtue in it. It actually kind of jumps out at me.”
Discussed
“So the first editions of The Daily Stoic, like it says every page. So typically the way books work is you have the title on every other page.”
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“Daily Stoke is also the email, right? It's like a new email every day. Those emails mirrored with this at all, it's completely separate. So basically, so I wrote the book in 2015.”
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“So, so that I was never going to be in The Virtue books, but then I did realize, okay, if you're talking about virtue and you're making strong judgments—positive and negative—of other people, um, there can be an implication that you're somehow the master of these things.”
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“So we and I don't remember what page it's on in the Daily Stoke, but like we had to do our own translations for the Daily Stoke cuz we couldn't use this one.”
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“So the the book The Daily Stoke is 366 stories. So just like that's a lot of stories and then every day for 8 years I've put out this email”
Discussed
“when I wrote The Daily St 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations”
Discussed
“Well, you're talking in your book about sort of the refueling in the air, and you just think about how stressful and high stakes that is.”
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“I remember a Republican senator who had read some of my books and privately told me all these things about Trump.”
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“I don't think I've read all of your books except I haven't read the Daily D. Well, it just came out and and you shouldn't be more than one page into it. Just to be clear, it's it should take you a year.”
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“i have a leather edition of ”
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“Because I did the book four years ago, one page a day, and then every day, for four years, I've done the email. And the other benefit for it is, I mean, I've written to these people every day for four years; that's amazing.”
Ron Chernow And you have in your book on the daily stoic meditation, my god, you start out with an epigraph that I wish… 4
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“I found myself after reading your daily stark meditations thinking about Mark Twain very differently because I felt like actually uh Grant Washington and Rockefeller all would would be lowercase stoics in in that sort of 18th century 19th century way of being in command of oneself.”
Discussed
“And you have in your book on the daily stoic meditation, my god, you start out with an epigraph that I wish I had known 50 years ago. And it's an epigraph, I think, from Senica.”
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“There was another quote that I loved that you had in your uh daily stoic meditations was it from Senica. It was about in planning for the future uh that has to descend from the past.”
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“You know, I found myself after reading your your daily stark meditations, uh, thinking about Mark Twain very differently. Yeah. Because I think the other books that I've written, maybe Hamilton would be the exception, had these people who had exceptional self-control. Yeah. And um seeing Mark Twain through the lens of stoicism, he could have used, you know, a”
Shaan Puri So, Ryan Holiday wrote a book on stoicism. He's written six or seven now at this point. But, he has this ot… 3
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“So, Ryan Holiday wrote a book on stoicism. He's written six or seven now at this point. But, he has this other property. It's a daily newsletter called the Daily Stoic”
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“And then he had The Daily Stoic and I was like, oh, okay. Reminded me a little bit of like, you know, like Tim Ferriss I think is kind of like this”
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“so ryan holiday is an author his first book was called how to get famous or what was it called how to it's like news jacking or whatever”
Camila Cabello and i got like the daily stoic journal and i was reading the daily stoic videos 2
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“and i got like the daily stoic journal and i was reading the daily stoic videos”
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“baby i get the email i get the journal i get the daily stoic the the daily that's part of my morning routine is reading one page a day the leather the black leather one”
Chris Williamson so what i've done is i've stolen a bunch of my favorite laws from the book so anyone that's familiar with t… 2
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“talking about the new book which is daily laws is there a romantic arc as sort of a sense of uh coming full circle with ryan releasing the daily stoic a few years ago and him being one of your apprentices not so long ago”
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“so what i've done is i've stolen a bunch of my favorite laws from the book so anyone that's familiar with the daily stoic your new one the daily laws is one page a day”
Sean O'Malley I the daily stoics the 365 days I've been I've had that book for like four years and I still religiously es… 2
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“I the daily stoics the 365 days I've been I've had that book for like four years and I still religiously especially in Camp for like 12 weeks out read every morning and just like it's [ __ ] it's good”
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“holiday the the stoic books and who's the awareness guy oh I think de Melo Anthony de Mello and just listening to [ __ ] these smart guys talked about and talked about happiness and what's true happiness”
Adam Kinzinger Then when I was reading your book and I was reading about your incident in the parking lot, I thought it wa… 1
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“Then when I was reading your book and I was reading about your incident in the parking lot, I thought it was interesting.”
Dr Rangan Chatterjee We can hear this stuff, and the people who read your books will know this is a central idea in my new book,… 1
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“We can hear this stuff, and the people who read your books will know this is a central idea in my new book, but I don't think people are connecting that to their health and behaviors. Since I spoke to Edith Eger, and your audience probably knows who she is, a 93-year-old lady, I thought, 'Wow, this really resonates with”
Maria Semple And so so what I did was I and then of course like I got your book The Daily Stoic which I just loved and I… 1
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“And so so what I did was I and then of course like I got your book The Daily Stoic which I just loved and I have my copy here.”
Matt Choi So somebody told me you read The Daily Stoke. I do. Yeah, and then you post about it all the time. I post i… 1
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“So somebody told me you read The Daily Stoke. I do. Yeah, and then you post about it all the time. I post it every single day.”
Molly Young so for example Ryan holiday who the big breakthrough book in 2014 he wrote the obstacle is the way and then… 1
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“so for example Ryan holiday who the big breakthrough book in 2014 he wrote the obstacle is the way and then subsequently wrote The Daily stoic and he's written a bunch of books about the philosophy”
Steven Pressfield and thank you for while we're talking for giving me off of your book The Daily stoic the idea of doing me d… 1
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“and thank you for while we're talking for giving me off of your book The Daily stoic the idea of doing me doing a book”
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“I got that quote from a book that I've been reading called The Daily stoic and that book has been very helpful for me”
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“I like Ryan holiday like how he kind of breaks down what what he says I the daily stoics the 365 days I've been I've had that book for like four years and I still religiously especially in Camp for like 12 weeks out read every morning and just like it's [ __ ] it's good”
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Passing
“Stephen Pressfield wrote The War of Art, Gates of Fire, Do the Work, Turning Pro, The Daily Pressfield, his new novel called The Arcadian.”
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“This is an entry from the daily Stoic 10th anniversary edition, which is out now has been updated and informed by a decade of writing and reading about the Stoics more than 60 new translations.”
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“And when Steve and I sat down to write it, our hope was that a little bit of Stoic wisdom each day could help people live better lives.”
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“10 years ago, I published this book, The Daily Stoic. I was 29 years old and I had been studying the Stoics for over a decade. I'd already written The Obstacle is the Way and Ego is the Enemy.”
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“When The Daily Stoic came out, I was sort of at an inflection point in my career. It was early enough. Some of my books had come out and done well. Some of them had done not so well, but they certainly hadn't blown the doors off by any means.”
Passing
“And it's funny though, the same year that the Daily Stoic came out and it did sell well, a friend of mine, Mark Manson, put out a book, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck, that sold probably more in that year than this book has sold in its lifetime.”
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“The final lesson here, I think, is embodied in these two editions, and then some. This is the first draft, which was itself the result of many, many, many drafts. This is the 10-year anniversary edition.”
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“Thanks for watching. This is the new edition of the book. You can check it out if you want a signed, numbered first edition. You can grab that from the link below or at dailystoic.com/ds10.”
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“In 2015, when Steve Hanselman and I were working on the Daily Stoic, the Stoicism subreddit had only a few thousand followers. Today, it has more than 800,000.”
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“A little over 10 years ago I sat down to write this book, The Daily Stoic.”
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“This is the new edition of the book. You can check it out. If you want a signed, numbered first edition, you can grab that from the link below”
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“Years later, Steve Hanselman, my co-writer on the Daily Stoic, encountered Higginson's Epictetus while studying at Harvard Divinity School. That book led him into stoicism, and eventually we'd collaborate on this book that became the Daily Stoic”
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“And that's what we're calling the Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition. It's got new quotes, it's got new stories, it's got new meditations.”
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“That's what we were trying to do 10 years ago. It's Ryan, by the way, when we published the Daily Stoic.”
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“And I think that's what has made a better, certainly an expanded and revised 10th anniversary edition of the Daily Stoic, which is available now. You can get some signed and numbered first editions before we run out.”
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“The new 10th Anniversary Edition of The Daily Stoic is out NOW! 👉 Grab your copy here”
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“It's crazy to me, but can you believe that it's been 10 years since the Daily Stoic came out?”
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“And that's what this new 10th Anniversary Edition of the Daily Stoic is.”
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“This is an entry from the Daily Stoic 10th Anniversary Edition, which is out now, has been updated and informed by a decade of writing and reading about the Stoics.”
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“That's how long it's been since the Daily Stoic was published. One decade. Hundreds of weeks. Thousands of days between then and this new 10-year anniversary edition that's coming out today.”
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“And then it was actually Steve's idea to do the Daily Stoic. As we talk about in today's episode, he had done a number of sort of daily devotional books when he was a publisher.”
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“And that's what the 10-year anniversary edition of the Daily Stoic is. And today you can finally get it.”
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“It was called The Daily Stoic, and it was supposed to be one bit of Stoic wisdom every day. One day, a quote from Marcus, one day from Epictetus or Seneca, plus a little meditation on what they meant and how to apply it.”
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“in 2016 i sat down to write this book that would present stoicism in a one page per day format i didn't know how it would do or who it would reach but here we are not just 10 years later but three million copies later”
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“and i'm reading to you today from the daily stoic 366 meditations on wisdom perseverance in the art of living by yours truly my co-author and translator steven hanselman”
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“This is an entry from the Daily Stoic. 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living. Holding a cloth edition here, but quote today is from Epictetus' Discourses 4.8.”
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“And I'm reading to you today from the daily stoic 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance in the art of living by yours truly, my co-author and translator, Steven Hanselman”
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“As it happens, I retold this story, and I forgot that I told it in the data stoke, but I retell part of the story, encourages calling.”
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“I said, "I have to go finish recording some of the audiobook for the new 10-year anniversary of 'Dailistoa,' which is in the works.”
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“and today's little riffing is from The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living. From yours truly, Ryan Holiday, my co-author and translator, Stephen Hanselman. You can pick up a copy of The Daily Stoic anywhere you buy books.”
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“I'm Ryan Holidayiday, the author of The Daily Stoic, and I traveled thousands of miles, not just to ancient Greece, where of course the Odyssey is set, but to Ithaca itself”
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“I do. I actually brought my daily stroke book because um whether you like it or not, you're going to sign it.”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic 8 years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going.”
Passing
“Well, it's actually, you know, it's funny you should mention that because uh you know, I was reading your book on the on the plane down and when you publish a book, we've now had 31 reviews of which 28 have been raves.”
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“He did all the translations in the Daily Sto.”
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“when I wrote The Daily stok 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going”
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“Like I'm finishing, I'm on—basically, I've probably got like 10% left of the first draft of the fourth book in The Virtue series, and I'm much more comfortable.”
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“so I wrote this book The Daily stoic which was one page a day”
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“Well, I have the luxury of getting to do a good chunk of my Stoic journaling in public. I wrote this book, 'The Daily Stoic', which was one page a day, and then I just kept going. So every day for eight years, I've published a Stoic meditation.”
Plugged
“I remember writing for a long time, and in 2016 I started Daily Stoic with just a few thousand subscribers. Initially, I wanted to see what people thought and feel their sentiments.”
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“one of the reasons I wrote The Daily Stoke and the daily dad is that I have become better as a person for the the meditative practice of having to produce this thing on a daily basis”
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“I bought even the rights to my book The Daily stoic and I put out these really cool additions”
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“I think it's a similar theme in your book—just be the best version of yourself as possible.”
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“One thing I advocate in my book is to always create a model that demonstrates what you're trying to say.”
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“Receiving positive feedback on my book has made me realize how fleeting success can be.”
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“Right; I remember my agent had the idea for Daily Stoic.”
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“When I wrote The Daily Sto 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going. The book was 366 meditations, and I planned to write one more every single day and give it away for free as an email.”
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“And so, I think this is why I I tried to do I did uh the Daily Dad, which is a page a day and the Daily Stoic, which is a page a day.”
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“So I mean, do you believe that there are like vibes in this table that somehow translate when I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago? I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going.”
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“i'd sold ego the enemy which was in the middle of writing and my agent Steve Hanselman came to me and said you should do this a book of a daily devotional of stoicism”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea of continuing it after releasing 366 meditations, writing one more every single day and giving it away for free as an email.”
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“when I wrote The Daily Stoke 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditation”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going. The book was 366 meditations, but I’d write one more every single day and I'd give it away for free as an email.”
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“and then i wrote a chunk of egos the enemy and the daily stoic on the ranch that was like those were the first project”
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“when I wrote The Daily Stoke 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations but I'd write one more every single day and I'd give it away for free as an email”
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“when I wrote The Daily Stoke 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going; the book was 366 meditations, but I’d write one more every single day and give it away for free as an email. I thought maybe a few people would sign up; I couldn't have even comprehended a future in”
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“So, um, I'm going to read from the second greatest book next to the Bhagavad Gita and next to the daily stoic. Soul boom.”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic, my editor asked me to remove cursing.”
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“it's funny as I I so I wrote this book The Daily sto it's one page of sto philosophy every day right”
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“and then the daily stoic would have come out a little bit later than that. I got so much out of writing the daily stoic like the idea of doing one page of stoic philosophy every day”
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“But I think 'The Obstacle Is The Way' had just come out, um, so would have been my first book about stoic philosophy and then 'The Daily Stoic' would have come out a little bit later than that.”
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“People ask me to sign it and they'll be like it's my friend's 40th birthday. And I usually write I usually write happy birthday momento my make it count right like your famous video.”
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“And I've been thinking about that reason I just wrote about this—I think for Daily Stoic, I don't know if it's coming, but I was thinking about how like one of the things that I felt during the early days of COVID was like that I had so much time; you know, the day suddenly felt so long, right?”
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“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea that I would keep it going. The book was originally 366 meditations, but I decided to write one more every single day and give it away for free as an email.”
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“well I I all the power to the person that made this $7 one but I I have one I'll send I'll send it to you cuz I do want for daily Stoke that's the that is that is the quote from the daily stoic every single day so I'll send it to you all right”
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“And thank you for giving me a copy of your book, 'The Daily Stoic,' which inspired me to write a book as well.”
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“So, this morning I told him, you know, my with in our family we don't have any technology at the table only philosophy books and he has grown up with Daily Stoic and all of your books and and um so he is he's just outside of Charleston.”
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“so one of the reasons i wrote the daily stoic was the idea that first off don't start with one of the stoics start with all the stokes there should be a sampling of the best of stoic wisdom available for everyone and since that didn't exist i wanted to make that and so this book now has sold more”
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“the daily stoic is 199 as an e-book this week only amazon ibooks anywhere you get your ibooks check it out we do this every new year it's the cheapest the book will ever be”
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“even this book you read the daily stoic one or two or three times you come back to the entries you are different even though the words are exactly the same”
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“so that's what the daily stoic is i wrote this book now five years ago it sold over a million copies that spent something like 300 weeks on the best seller list”
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“His books like The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic have all reached number one New York Times best-seller status, and Stillness Is the Key appears in more than 40 languages, and all of his books have sold more than 4 million copies.”
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“And his books, which include "The Obstacle Is the Way," "Ego Is the Enemy," "The Daily Stoic," "Stillness is the Key," and his latest offering and the focus of today's conversation, "Courage Is Calling" right here have sold altogether over four million copies.”
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“this Saturday you can check out the daily stoic audio book on audible and pretty much everywhere books are sold”
Passing
“Ryan Holiday (TW/IG: @RyanHoliday) is one of the world's foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in modern life. He is a sought-after speaker and strategist and the author of many bestselling books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, and The Daily Stoic.”
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“so that's from the daily stoic audiobook which you can get on audible I think all the other audiobook platforms”