Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of January 22 - 28

​ ​ PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: The ability to deal with frustration, to not be ruled by our temper, to catch ourselves when we're comparing, to stop ourselves when we start to spiral, these don't seem like happy things. But that's the point: By dealing with them, we make happiness possible. Read: If You Want To Be Happy, Do This​ YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: ​ In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday shares how the struggle to find motivation and discard anxiety isn't anything new. The Stoics felt that, too. But they also remind us that we always have the choice to look deeper inside ourselves: "Seneca says 'he who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than necessary…We suffer more in imagination than in reality.' What he means is we anticipate what could happen, what might happen. We torture ourselves in advance, and that's what anxiety is. And then Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, 'Today I escaped my anxiety.' Then he says wait—I discarded it, because it was in me. Things don't make us anxious, we make ourselves anxious. We have control over it, which means we can solve for it." Watch 20 Inspiring 1 Minute Clips of Stoicism​​ Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube ​ PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: ​ In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author and investor Tim Ferriss on the essence of Stoicism, exaggerating the downside of things, and the proper way to view decision-making: "Some of the commonly used language about decisions is that 'there's a fork in the road.' And you have to choose, because a fork implies that going backwards is very difficult….At least the way that I try to view them is more like walking into a closet and choosing what sweater you want to put on. You don't like it, put it back on the rack. Go back to the one you were wearing before. In a lot of ways, it's a much more appropriate way to view things—that it is just a pause, it is just a temporary experience that you can zig-zag with." Listen To This Episode Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast ​​​ Listen ad-free with Wondery plus or on Amazon Music with your Prime membership. WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING: " "Accept what is happening without fusing your identity to it. Zoom out to a larger perspective or awareness from which you can observe your situation without feeling like you are trapped in it. Choose how you want to move forward in a way that aligns with your innermost values. Take action, even if doing so feels scary or uncomfortable." ​ — The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul by Brad Stulberg Looking for a good book? Subscribe to Ryan's FREE Monthly Reading List Email! ​THIS WEEK'S BEST SOCIAL MEDIA POST: Follow us on social ​​​​​ ​Unsubscribe | Update your profile | 906 Main Street #274, Bastrop, Texas 78602 ​info@dailystoic.com is not a monitored email