The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-08 · 17 min · 2,967 words

You Must Read To Lead | 10 Stoic Strategies To Deal With Anxiety

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. You must read To lead

Not all the stoics were leaders, but All of them were readers. And the ones who were leaders? Well, they were the biggest readers. Of them all.

Marcus Aurelius opens meditations by thanking the teacher who taught him to read attentively. And who loaned him the copy of Epictetus that shaped the rest of his life. Scipio Emilianus, one of Rome's great generals and a patron of Stoicism, was said to be constantly engaged in the pursuit of arms or his studies. He was either training his body by exposing it to dangers or

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