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They're saying that every day your business is late to AI, you fall two days behind. So how do you keep up when the competition is moving faster? Well, there's NetSuite next. You probably know NetSuite. It's the AI powered business management suite that securely connects all your data. And it's a unified suite that brings your financials, inventory, commerce, HR and CRM into a single source of truth trusted by over 43,000 customers. And Netsuitenext is the next huge leap in how business gets done, because AI is built into everything you do, and it automatically surfaces custom insights throughout your day. AI agents work alongside to help you solve problems and handle routine work. And anytime you have a question, you just ask, just like having a conversation with a colleague. NetSuite is customized for a wide variety of industries, so it supports the way your business truly works, whether that company earns millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars. It's time for NetSuite Next. For the first time ever, you can try NetSuite Next for free. If your revenues are at least in the seven figures, go to netsuite.net AI Stoic. It's built for every industry, ready for every boardroom. Netsuite AI/ Stoic.
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Welcome to the daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice and wisdom, into the real world. Arete. That's a powerful word. To the Greeks, it meant excellence. It was the ultimate expression of human greatness. Moral, physical, spiritual. It's what the Stoics were chasing. It's what you're chasing today. But how do we get there? Well, Arete requires a certain philosophical approach, because brilliance and inspiration and skill are not enough. We are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle said, therefore excellence is not an act, but a habit. In other words, excellence isn't this thing you do one time. It's a way of living. It's foundational. It's like an operating system. And the code this system operates on is habit. As Epictetus would later say, capability is confirmed and grows in its corresponding actions. Walking by walking and running by running. Therefore, if you want to do something, make a habit of it. So if we want to be happy, if we want to be successful, if we want to be great, we have to develop the capability. We have to develop the day to day habits that allow this to ensue. And that's great news, because it means that impressive results and enormous changes are possible without Herculean effort or magical formulas. Small adjustments, good systems, the right processes, that's what it takes, things like when we wake up, what we study and practice, who we have in our lives as influences, where we go and how we spend our time. There is nothing more powerful than a good habit. Nothing that holds us back quite like a bad habit. We are what we do. What we do determines who we can be. You know this. You've seen the forces at work in your own life. For better and frustratingly, all too often for worse. Today is the day to start harnessing these powers and wielding them them properly. To stop being jerked around by our habits. To no longer be a passive observer of our own virtues and vices. It won't be easy, but it will be transformational. Daily Stoic has been developing the Daily Stoic habits challenge. Habits for success, habits for happiness. We've sifted through the greatest Stoic wisdom and aimed it at one of the most challenging parts of life. Habit formation and growth. These are difficult times we're in. Economic uncertainty, personal adversity. These things can sink you, or they can be opportunities to improve. They can be obstacles you triumph over or setbacks that bring you to your knees. What will it be? Habits. Answer that question. If you can cultivate good habits, you can survive, even thrive. What lies ahead? If you relapse and fall to the level of your worst habits, these hard times will only be harder. We're inviting you to spend the next six weeks challenging yourself to change what you repeatedly do. And we are promising that if you can do that, you can achieve Arete personally and professionally. If you want to do or be something, Epictetus said, make a habit of it. So let's make a habit of Arete. And let's remember his most urgent and challenging question. How much longer are you going to wait to demand the best of yourself? How about not one second longer? Let's start today. If you want to join us in this challenge, I'll be doing it alongside you. It's six weeks of really awesome life altering habits based on Stoic wisdom. You can check that out@dailystoic.com habits dailystoic.com habits can't wait to see you. Let's change and improve together.
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The Daily Stoic | Host: Daily Stoic (Ryan Holiday) | July 1, 2026
This episode centers on the Stoic concept that excellence, or Arete, is not a single action but a continuous practice—a habit woven into daily life. Ryan Holiday explores how cultivating the right habits is foundational to achieving true greatness and aligns this with timeless Stoic wisdom from philosophers like Aristotle and Epictetus. He challenges listeners to take charge of their habits and introduces a new Daily Stoic challenge designed to help build habits for success and happiness.
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Power of Habits:
Ryan Holiday delivers a compelling reminder that daily habits—not sporadic inspiration—form the basis of true excellence. Leaning on centuries-old Stoic philosophy, the episode calls listeners to actively shape their lives through intentional routines. The episode closes with a challenge and an invitation: take immediate ownership of your habits to achieve Arete, starting now.