Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of June 19-25

​ ​ In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think." That was a personal reminder to continue living a life of virtue NOW, and not wait. ​ To help keep this reminder close to you, we enlisted Brooklyn artist Lewis Williams to design our beautiful new memento mori pendants. The mixed-metal pendants are handcrafted using traditional techniques and only the finest materials. Don't wait, pick yours up today! YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: ​ In a video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday describes the classic Stoic concept of memento mori, and the idea that since we could leave our lives at any moment, we must be grateful for every waking moment: "When you awake in the morning, if you are so lucky, it's a bonus. You're happy in the morning because you've been given an extra try– you're playing with house money." Watch What Is Memento Mori? (Explained In 5 Minutes) Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube @ ​ THIS WEEK'S BEST SOCIAL MEDIA POST: Follow us @ ​​​​​ PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: "Why should we be afraid of criticism? As Marcus Aurelius writes, if that criticism is correct and we are in error then the person criticizing us has done us a favor by correcting it. If they are wrong, what do we care? More likely, if we are doing our job right, we should already be well aware of the issue that people are raising and already be fixing it. We should have no sense of ourselves as perfect or above critique. Nor should we be so fragile and vulnerable as to not be able to bear being disliked or disagreed with." -How To Not Be Afraid of Criticism (Listen) PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: ​ In a new episode of the Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with sports commentator, journalist, personality, and podcast host Stephen A. Smith about his new memoir, knowing when to have an opinion and when to stay silent, and the value of authentic relationships in times of fame: "When you become a star, it's not that you've changed – the people around you have changed. Their expectations have changed. Your obligation, what they feel your obligation to them is, has changed." Listen To This Episode Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast @ ​​ WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING: "I do not write Histories but Lives, nor do the most conspicuous acts of necessity exhibit a man's virtue or his vice, but oftentimes some slight circumstance, a word or a jest, shows a man's character better than battles with the slaughter of tens of thousands, and the greatest arrays of armies and sieges of cities. Now, as painters produce a likeness by a representation of the countenance and the expression of the eyes, without troubling themselves about the other parts of the body, so must I be allowed to look rather into the signs of a man's character, and thus give a portrait of his life, leaving others to describe great events and battles." — Plutarch's Lives​ ​ ​Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 906 Main Street #274, Bastrop, Texas 78602 ​info@dailystoic.com is not a monitored email