7 Stoic Steps for Breaking an Addiction

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. We're all trying to get clean from something. Everyone has some form of sobriety they're trying to get to some habit or compulsion or addiction that they're trying to break. Well what if the secret to sobriety, to getting clean, to breaking free of this form of slavery actually dates back more than 2,000 years.

Sure, we live in a modern world where temptation has been turned into a multi billion dollar industry where we're surrounded by systems designed to hijack our attention and channel our worst impulses. But people have always struggled with this. And stoicism has been a philosophy that's helped thousands and thousands of people get clean, break bad habits, regain that self-mastery that the good life requires. I'm Ryan Holliday.

I've been writing about Stoicism now for almost two decades, but But like you, I have my addictions, I have my temptations, and stoicism has helped me in my journey of sobriety, of being the person that I want to be. And that's what we're going to talk about in today's episode from some people who have used Stoicism to get clean, get sober, and most importantly, to stay so. And hopefully it will help you too. What was Getting Silver like for you?

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