Daily Stoic

"I think both The Fall and The Plague are two striking books for this moment."

"I think both The Fall and The Plague are two striking books for this moment."

"The short lines in meditations are the best. They're just a couple of words. They say so much and they cut through so much space and time."

"If you haven't read his memoir To Hell and Back, it's absolutely incredible."

"My favorite translation is the Hayes translation which he did for the modern library."

"Stoicism is something that can guide us and teach us and specifically the four virtues of stoicism. Courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom."

"I'm of course talking about Marcus Aurelius's meditations, one of the most unique books ever published in the history of literature. It is a journal and that journaling process is essentially inseparable from stoic philosophy."

"This is a famous exercise from Seneca. It's called premeditatio malorum. It's about thinking about what might happen. One of the ways we make change not so scary, not so overwhelming is by thinking about it."

"If you want to challenge yourself this spring to get rid of some of those bad habits that creeped in over the winter to get back on track, well, I'd love to have you join me and thousands of other Stoics all over the world in the Daily Stoic Spring Forward Challenge."