In case you missed it, this week we released our new Memento Mori Premium Signet Ring. For centuries signet rings have helped remind people of the fragility of life, that we don't know how much time we have left. We never do. And we never will.
Inspired by the French painter Philippe de Champaign famous painting "Still Life with a Skull," the sterling silver and brass ring, created by LHN Jewelry in Brooklyn, New York, features the three essentials of existence – the tulip (life), the skull (death), and the hourglass (time).
The inside is engraved with Marcus Aurelius's timeless words: "You could leave life right now…" What's left to the wearer is to repeat to themselves the final half of his quote: "…Let that determine what you do and say and think." Grab yours at dailystoic.com/MMring.
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with his mentor and fellow best-selling author Robert Greene in anticipation of their upcoming live discussion series on where their ideas and interests converge, being uncomfortable with uncertainty, and how to find stillness and clarity in positions of power:
"At each step of the way, you have to kind of step back and say, 'Am I really connecting to what's going on around me? Or am I giving into the version that people are feeding my desires, that my desires are coloring things.' And that ability to step back is so difficult when you're on that drug of attention."
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Catch Ryan and Robert at two live events this fall called Strategy And Philosophy For Turbulent Times where you can see them discuss big ideas from apprenticeships to cutting-edge technologies, to productivity habits to happiness, and take questions from the stage.
There are a limited number of VIP meet-and-greet tickets available, so grab yours before they sell out!
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
"Bad character might drive someone into a position of leadership—because of their ambition, their ruthlessness, their shamelessness—but eventually, inevitably, this supposed "strength" becomes an Achilles' heel when it comes time to actually do the job. Who trusts them? Who actually wants to work with them? What kind of culture develops around them? How can they learn? How can they know where the landmines are?"
-This Timeless Adage Will Determine Your Destiny (Listen)
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
A new video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel tells the story of how Seneca attained and managed the magical virtue of stillness. We won't find stillness in other people or places, Seneca said. Instead, we must look within, finding moments of quiet to reflect and strengthen ourselves amidst the chaos:
"'I have toughened my nerves against all that sort of thing,' Seneca explained. 'I forced my mind to concentrate and keep it from straying to things outside itself — all outdoors may be bedlam provided that there is no disturbance within.'… If a person could develop peace within themselves, then the whole world could be at war and they could still think well, work well, and be well."
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
| | " "Let your inner mind be unclouded and open, placing your intellect on a broad plane. It is essential to polish the intellect and mind diligently….When you are experienced in various fields and are incapable of being fooled at all by people of the world, only then will your mind become imbued with the knowledge and wisdom and of the art of war." — Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword by Miyamoto Musashi |
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