9 Stoic Habits For A Better Life

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Most of us aren't satisfied with who we are. Most of us know we're leaving something on the table, and we know it because we see what other people are capable of. At the same time, sometimes we we let ourselves off the hook by saying, oh, it's easier for them.

They have better genetics and better upbringing. They had a head start. But the truth is that virtue is not different than any other skill. You don't have it or not have it. You do it or you don't do it.

And you get better at it the more you do it. This is the fundamental insight of Aristotle that Excellence is not innate, it is a habit. Epictetus says something similar. He says, we tell ourselves what we want to be and then we do what we have to do.

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