Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of February 19 - 25

​ ​ PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: What we go through in life, the knocks we take, the losses we experience—they aren't fun. If we had a choice, we may choose for them not to happen. But still, we have no idea how they are preparing us, shaping us, even saving us. All we can do is try to find meaning, find lessons, find the opportunities in these moments, however tragic and painful they may be in the moment. Read: We Can Find The Gift In It​ YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: ​ In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday speaks 12 Stoic remedies for feeling lonely or depressed, including changing your perspective, asking for help, and being a better friend to yourself: "When we're down in those depths, when we're in dark places, when we're isolated and feel disconnected from people, we have to remember that we're not bad people. How we talk to ourselves matters, and the decision to treat yourself poorly is not a good decision…If you don't think you're worthy of friendships or relationships or connection or love, then how is anyone else going to see that in you? It started by realizing you're not a bad person, and, as Seneca says, being a better friend to yourself." Watch 12 (Stoic) Remedies for Feeling Lonely or Depressed​ 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 legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on his latest book The Nation That Never Was, why people's values are collapsing, and how cognitive dissonance can steer us away from the truth: "It's hard to hold these contradictory ideas in your mind because there's a natural tendency to try to make things coherent — so you squeeze out the inconvenient splinter, even if it turns out to be a splinter of truth." 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: " "It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested." ​ — On the Shortness of Life by Seneca 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