Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-15
Books mentioned on Time Is a Violent River | Stop Being Surprised By This
Are we doing the work we know we should be doing? Or are we letting hour after hour, day after day, simply drift past us?
Ryan Holiday recommended Good Inside by Dr. Becky Kennedy, and discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a profound collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor.
Discussed“In meditations, Marx really reminds himself not to get lost in this, to lose the perspective of what is happening. Time is a river, he writes, a violent current of events glimpsed once and already carried past us.”
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Good Inside
Good Inside by Dr.
Recommended“She's a founder of Good Inside, the host of the Good Inside podcast, the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Good Inside, one of my favorite parenting books.”
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