How Reading The Daily Stoic Every Day Is Changing My Life

The Daily Stoic is a book written by Ryan Holiday that includes 366 meditations for each day of the year on wisdom, perseverance and as Ryan calls it, ‘The Art of Living’.

In that sense, it isn’t an ordinary book that you would read chapter by chapter. Instead, it provides a less-than-2-minute read for each day of the year that helps me to recalibrate my perspective, see my worries and hang-ups clearly as well as find new ideas about living a better life.

What is Stoicism?

For anyone that is not familiar, stoicism is an ancient Greek philosophy that focuses on living life with virtue, tolerance and self-control. It also deals with one of human kind’s biggest worries: our own mortality. It is making a modern-day comeback because of its many useful lessons that you can apply to your life.

From the Daily Stoic website:

Stoicism has just a few central teachings. It sets out to remind us of how unpredictable the world can be. How brief our moment of life is. How to be steadfast, and strong, and in control of yourself. And finally, that the source of our dissatisfaction lies in our impulsive dependency on our reflexive senses rather than logic.

Stoicism doesn’t concern itself with complicated theories about the…