Here’s How To Find Tranquility

We all want more peace, right? More stillness. The quiet confidence that comes from being on the right path, as Seneca described it, and not being distracted by all those which crisscross ours. Well, how do you get that? It’s simple, Marcus Aurelius wrote. Stop caring what other people think. Stop caring what they do. Stop caring what they say.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:03Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, dailystoic.com.

• 0:30Ryan Holiday?

  We all want more peace, right? More stillness? The quiet confidence that comes from being on the right path, as Seneca described it, and not being distracted by all those which crisscross ours? Well, how do you get that? "It's simple," Marcus Aurelius wrote. "Stop caring what other people think. Stop caring what they do. Stop caring what they say. All that matters," he writes, "is what you do. Everything else is beyond your concern. You can let it all go. You can ignore it entirely." We find tranquility when we stop stressing about things we cannot control, whose influence we are impotent to constrain. We find tranquility when we narrow our focus,

• 1:14Ryan Holiday?

  when we look inward, when we look in the mirror, when we still the uncontrollable passions in our heads, hearts, and bodies. Stillness is the key to a better life. The bad news is that there's only one way to get it. The good news is that it's easy. You just have to stop. Stop caring what they think, or say, or do. Start caring deeply about what you do. Stop and start now.