No Matter What, This Is All You Have To Do

We know the world throws a lot at us. We know it’s noisy out there, and there are competing influences. We know we can be pretty forgetful too. How are we supposed to remember the most essential and important Stoic truths and principles for life? By simplifying. By repeating powerful and key ideas time and time again (with both words and actions).✉️ 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.

• 0:32Ryan Holiday?

  No matter what, this is all you have to do. Now, the world throws a lot at us. We know it's noisy out there. There are competing influences. We know we can be pretty forgetful, too. How are we supposed to remember the most essential and important Stoic truths and principles for life? By simplifying, by repeating powerful and key ideas time and time again, with both words and action. "No matter what," Marcus Aurelius would remind himself time and time again, "my task is to be good." Like gold, or emerald, or purple, repeating to himself, he said, "No matter what, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished." This was the advice he would do his best to live by, and largely succeeded. Be good, do good. It's the moral imperative of life.

• 1:16Ryan Holiday?

  It's all we have to do. Be good and do good, no matter what.