Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2025-12-28
Books mentioned on The Stoic Way To Survive 2026
You do not control the year ahead. You do control how you meet it.
Ryan Holiday discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus and The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a collection of personal journals and philosophical notes written by the Roman emperor, offering timeless reflections on Stoic philosophy, self-discipline, and mortality.
Discussed“Stoicism is not there to help you be a better sociopath. On the contrary, it's designed to make you better, more caring, more empathetic, a better contributor to the thing that Mark Swiz talks about 80 times in meditations, [music] which is the common good.”
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera is a philosophical novel that explores love, fate, and the heavy burdens of human existence against the backdrop of the Prague Spring.
Discussed“There's actually a line in one of my favorite novels, The Unbearable Lightness of Being. And the woman, she says, "It's much more important to dig a half buried crow out of the ground than to write a petition to the president."”
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