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For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com.Support the podcast and go deeper with Stoicism by subscribing to The Daily Stoic...

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“Your car stopped, and a nice person comes by and sees that your car stopped and they're like, oh, I'm going to help you. And before you can explain what happened, they rush off and they come back with a can of gas. And you say, well, somebody stole my engine. They saw the problem and they solved the problem, but it wasn't your problem, because they never asked and you never explained why is it a problem… If we don't talk about why it matters, there's no one who's going to defend that solution at the end.” — Stacey Abrams, The Daily Stoic
Stacey Abrams · 1 Nov 2026 Listen →
“Your attention and your thinking is so much more bottom-up situational. Why did you think about coffee? Because somebody had a coffee cup out… We think of ourselves as intentional, more or less top-down directive. That's what makes us human. And we are much more like dogs and cats, reacting to things.” — Angela Duckworth, The Daily Stoic
Angela Duckworth · 17 Oct 2026 Listen →
“They go from miners with pans to creating these industrial-sized hoses, hydraulic mining, capable of washing away entire hillsides. … San Francisco to this day is shallower than it was before the gold rush because of all the junk that's come down the rivers as a consequence of the California gold rush.” — Nathaniel Philbrick, The Daily Stoic
Nathaniel Philbrick · 10 Oct 2026 Listen →
“This has been said so many times that those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it. … And I am here before you today to say, even if you know your history, you're doomed to repeat it. Because when you're in the moment, you have no historical perspective. You see things in terms of your impulses, what's good for you. You have no sense of where things are headed.” — Nathaniel Philbrick, The Daily Stoic
Nathaniel Philbrick · 10 Oct 2026 Listen →
“I absolutely believe that there are at least another dimension directly above us where the muse lives, you know, angels, whatever.” — Steven Pressfield, The Daily Stoic
Steven Pressfield · 22 Aug 2026 Listen →

Hosts

The Daily Stoic is hosted by Ryan Holiday , Kat Pichik , Kat Peach and Tim Ferriss .

Recent Episodes

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  4. 2 Nov 2026

    Your Job is This Simple | Accepting What Is

  5. 1 Nov 2026

    Stoicism, Democracy, and Personal Responsibility | Stacey Abrams

    With Stacey Abrams

  6. 31 Oct 2026

    43 Stoic Rules That Will Change How You Live

  7. 30 Oct 2026

    If We Were Dying, It Would Be Easier | What Grief Teaches Us About Being Alive

    With Kate Bowler

  8. 29 Oct 2026

    It’s Not How You See It. It’s What You Make It | 18 Stoic Lessons You’ll Wish You Learned Sooner

  9. 28 Oct 2026

    It’s All In How You See It

  10. 28 Oct 2026

    16 Brutally Honest Stoic Reminders

  11. 27 Oct 2026

    BONUS | We Reap What We Sow

  12. 27 Oct 2026

    The Past Is a Lie | Would Ryan Holiday Ever Run for Office?

    With Steven Pressfield

Guests

George Raveling (6 episodes), Billy Oppenheimer (5 episodes), Donald Robertson (5 episodes), David Epstein (4 episodes), William O. Stephens (4 episodes), Jefferson Fisher (4 episodes), Codie Sanchez (4 episodes), Rangan Chatterjee (4 episodes), Steven Pressfield (4 episodes), Pete Holmes (4 episodes), Robert Rosenkranz (4 episodes), Maria Semple (4 episodes), and 178 more.