# Title: [[{ 2021-12-31 The Daily Stoic]] ## Metadata - `Tags:` [[Stoicism]] - `Type:` [[🌲️/{]] - `Author:` [[@Ryan Holiday]] - `Notable Authors:` [[@Stephen Hanselman]] - `Keywords:` - `General Subject:` [[philosophy]] - `Specific Subject:` [[Stoicism]] - `ISBN:` 978-0735211735 - `DOI:` - `Publish Date:` 2016-10-18 - `Reviewed Date:` [[2021-01-07]] ## Citation ```latex @book{holidayDailyStoic3662016, title = {The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living}, shorttitle = {The Daily Stoic}, author = {Holiday, Ryan and Hanselman, Stephen}, date = {2016}, publisher = {{Portfolio/Penguin}}, location = {{New York, New York}}, annotation = {ZSCC: 0000019}, isbn = {978-0-7352-1173-5}, keywords = {Stoics}, pagetotal = {404} } ``` ## Notes: - *Identify what you can and cannot change and do not waste time on what you cannot change* ^d933df - **Knowledge is true freedom** - *Be ruthless to the things that don't matter, say no, and remove their demands from you* - **The Big Three** - control your perceptions - direct your actions properly - willingly accept what's outside your control[[#^d933df]] - *direct your intentions towards an identified end* - **The only thing that can pollute the minds proper functioning are its own poor decisions** - *"Addiction is when we've lost the freedom to abstain" don't allow pleasures to become additions and hamper your ability to abstain from them.* - **We only look and plan for the future and rarely reflect on the paths that got us here. ** - This opens up room for one to slowly progress towards corruption with tiny steps arriving at a state of evil^[[[The corrupting influence of power occurs gradually like a frog in a pot of boiling water]]] - "The road to hell was paved with good intentions" - *Money doesn't change a man* - The rich are not a breed set apart - When they need to move fast, the dismiss their entourage - When go to war, they don't take their possessions with them either^[[[Fehu#^4019b1]]] - Money wont fix all of your problems - in fact it may invite new unforeseen problems and now you have more than before - like winning the lottery and now you need a security detail for yourself and family due to malicious actors - Money doesn't change a man, it simply reveals who he is - **Read as if the author is on trial for their life** - critically examine material - dont just accept things at face value - rigorously examine the works and strive for clear understanding - *The more we pursue and hope to attain the less free we are* - The things you own end up owning you - with less wants you become more free and less tethered to your material possessions - and the desire for more of them ## Summary of key points: - ## Context: (How this article relates to other work in the field; how it ties in with key issues and findings by others, including yourself) - ## Significance: (to the field; in relation to your own work) - ## Important Figures and/or Tables: (brief description; page number) - ## Cited References to follow up on (cite those obviously related to your topic AND any papers frequently cited by others because those works may well prove to be essential as you develop your own work): - ## Other Comments: -