Excellence, good habits, virtue—as we’ve been saying lately, the Stoics considered each of these not a state of being, but a state of action.
This week, we’re sharing some of our best Stoic content about habits because putting good ones into action daily makes you better. It improves the way you live your life. It gets you closer to the person you want to be—the person you know you can be.
It’s why we created our bestselling Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge, and why we’ve relaunched it this month for an all-new experience: new tools, new research-backed daily challenges, and new accountability methods to help you finally make the changes last. We hope you join us.
This week on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday explores 12 timeless lessons from the life and writings of Marcus Aurelius. From the importance of discarding anxiety to the discipline of focusing only on what is essential, these habits offer a practical design for a better life.
That’s not what you’re put here for. In the light of your own mortality … the significance of those things would fall away and the starkness of the choice in front of you would become much clearer.
This week, we revisit Ryan’s talk with James Clear, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits, about practical ways to shift your internal narrative, how to begin and maintain productive habitual action, and being flexible with your goals as you set and achieve them.