50 Stoic Rules to Live By

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. This comes to us from Epictetus. He says it's the chief task of life, which is focus on what you control. Is it up to me? Is it not up to me? If it is up to you, it gets a hundred percent. If it's not up to me, it gets zero percent. We focus on what we control.

because that's where our energy, effort, and emotions actually make a difference. The next one is related to the first one, which is we control how we respond to things. As Epic Tis says, we don't control what happens, but we control how we respond to what happens. So by ignoring all the things that are not up to us, by refraining from regret or complaint or blame, and focusing on This happened. What am I going to? Do about it.

This is how we move forward. And this is what all great leaders, artists. Human beings do they focus on what they control. What they control is how they respond to what happens in life. The next is a question from Mark Sri. He says, Ask yourself in every moment, is this essential?

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