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Before we get into this week’s Stoic Review, two quick exciting announcements: The Daily Stoic is $1.99 as an ebook right now. We’re not sure how long the price drop will last, so go grab your copy now! And we created a cool new leather cover for the Daily Stoic Journal (which has daily entries and weekly themes). And if you bundle the Daily Stoic Journal with the Journal Cover, you get 50% off both. This sale won’t last, so make sure to pick yours up today!

PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:

Nobody knows what the day or the week has in store for us. As much as we take care of ourselves and eat well, so much of our health is outside of our control. But the one way we can make sure that we are always well, that we are always getting better (mentally, spiritually, if not physically) is by the books we read, the questions we ponder, and the conversations we have.

— If You Are Studying Philosophy, It Is Well (Listen)

YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

In one of the most watched videos on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel this week, Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene share 6 Stoic lessons that Robert himself applies in his own life and that you can apply in yours. At one point in the video, Robert talks about how we can use a Stoic idea, character is fate, to not be fooled by people:

“Don’t listen at what people say. Don’t look at people’s appearances. Look at people’s actions, and the patterns of their behavior. For instance, I talk about Howard Hughes in [The Laws of Human Nature] as somebody who’s got a very weak character, who was a horrific businessman. People were lured in by his image of this sort of maverick aviator, a great Hollywood person, et cetera. But if you looked at the patterns of his behavior, you would have seen that he was actually quite toxic. So stop looking at what people say about themselves. Look at their actions.”

Watch the full video: Robert Greene’s 6 Stoic Concepts For A Fulfilling Life​

PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday looks back on some of the best interviews of 2022, and specifically, some of the best lessons he picked up from writers on writing. The great Steven Pressfield opens things with a great lesson on importance of accepting mediocrity and just putting the time in:

“Most of what we do is not so great. Certainly not the first time through…Don’t torture yourself with, is this good? The main thing is to get the ball moving. And to keep it moving. The big danger is losing the momentum…My big thing is, just sit your ass down and put in the time. And I think that applies to anything.”

Listen to the full episode: Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing​

WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:

“The problem that many of us face is that we have great dreams and ambitions. Caught up in the emotions of our dreams and the vastness of our desires, we find it very difficult to focus on the small, tedious steps usually necessary to attain them. We tend to think in terms of giant leaps toward our goals. But in the social world as in nature, anything of size and stability grows slowly.”

— The 33 Strategies of War by Robert Greene (signed copies)

YOUR STOIC WEEKEND REMINDER:

Objective judgement. Unselfish action. Willing acceptance.

That’s what Marcus Aurelius writes in Book 9 of Meditations:

Objective judgment, now, at this very moment.
Unselfish action, now, at this very moment.
Willing acceptance—now, at this very moment—of all external events.
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That’s all you need.

See things clearly. Be unselfish. Accept things that are outside your control.

That’s all you need.

(For more on this idea, watch this video!)

THIS WEEK’S BEST SOCIAL MEDIA POST:

EMAIL OF THE WEEK:

​You Know What’s Coming (Listen)

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