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Daily Stoic.

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Here are six stoic rules that will.

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Make you unconquerable in 2026. Number one, don't have an opinion about everything. This is what Marcus Aurelius says. Remember, we always have the power to have no opinion. We are going to be flooded with the latest breaking news, with hot takes, with trends, with everyone's opinions. It's way too much to manage. And while some things you should have an opinion about, some things you don't need to have an opinion about. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Marx really says, leave them alone. Leave other people to their own opinions. Leave their arguing alone. Don't chase every trend. Don't chase every latest outrage. Focus your attention where it matters. Focus your attention on what's important. Leave the rest alone. Stop giving your time away. It's crazy. The Stoics say that we are protective of our property and of our money, and then we're frivolous with our time. The one thing you can't recover, the one thing they're not making any more of. Life isn't short. Seneca says, a year is a long time. The problem? We just waste it. We waste it on inessential things. We waste it getting distracted and upset by things that have nothing to do with us, that we can't control. Time is precious. Act accordingly. You only have so many hours in a day. You only have so many hours in a year. How are you going to spend them? And how are you going to spend them on things that matter? Always be challenging yourself. The Stoics would say, life is uncomfortable, so get used to being uncomfortable. Seneca would set aside a certain number of days throughout the year where he would survive on very little food or sleep on the ground. He would try to rough it, basically. And he said the point of this was to get up close and comfortable with conditions that you can then say to yourself, this is what I was afraid of. Most of the time, we're trying to make life easier and smoother. It's a good instinct, I guess. But the problem then is that this makes us afraid of losing that comfort. And if we can actively challenge ourselves to get outside our comfort zone, get familiar with other states of living and being that other people are petrified of.

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It makes us freer because then we.

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Can be more courageous. We understand we can handle whatever happens, and we're toughening ourselves up as we go, and that's always a good thing. And by the way. That's why I start the first three weeks of every year with Stoic challenges. We've been doing this now for seven or eight years. The daily stoic new year new you challenge is 21 days of stoic inspired challenges that get you out of your comfort zone, that challenge you to do things you wouldn't otherwise do. Do things that might not always be fun, might not always be easy, but you learn something about the world and you learn something about yourself by doing them. I'd love to have you join us. January 1st, it starts. You gotta sign up now. Dailystoic.com challenge I'm gonna do it.

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Thousands of other Stoics all over the.

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World are gonna do it. It's an awesome community to be a part of and a great way to take your study of Stoicism to the next level. If you've been liking these videos, Dailystoic.com challenge I will see you in there. You should do something for the common good every single day, right? The world is dark. Bad things are going to be happening in 2026. Things you don't like are going to happen in 2026. If you want to make sure you don't live in a dark, screwed up, awful world, well, one thing you can do is not be dark and awful. You can do good things. Stoicism is not just about self improvement. It's a philosophy around helping others and improving the world. Marc Realis talks about the idea of the common good 80 times in meditations. He says, actually, the fruit of a good life is good character and acts.

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For the common good.

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So what is the good you're going to do? And if you can set a rule that you always try to do good, you'll have a good year. Don't suffer more than you have to. As I said, bad things are going to happen. The problem is the anxiety and the fear that we have about the potential of that happening. Seneca says that he who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary. And he says, the reality is a lot of us suffer more in our minds than we do in reality. The dread, the torture, the anxiety. What if this, what if that, what if this, what if that? That's not stoicism. You want to be prepared. You want to be trained to handle the various contingencies that might come up. But you want to make sure you're not torturing yourself in advance. What's going to happen is what's going to happen. What matters is, are you the kind of person who can roll with the punches. Are you the kind of person who doesn't lose their cool? Are you the person that focuses on what you're going to do about it? Emoting about the problem, fretting about the problem, worrying about the problem, talking to people about the problem. None of that does anything about the problem. So don't suffer more than you have to this year. If you want to have a rich 2026, reduce your desires. Epictetus says that if you wish for things to be as they are, you will have them. And so if you can reduce your needs, if you can reduce your baseline, if you can reduce your expectations, you'll have a rich and prosperous 2026. If this year or any year is dependent on you achieving or getting things at a certain level, then your success is going to be dependent on things going a certain way. And that's a vulnerable place to be. If you need a bigger house, a bigger car, if you need more followers, more attention, tension, right, you're going to be on a treadmill this year. And that's what Seneca means when he said, it's not the person who has little that's poor, it's the person who wants more. The most avoidable form of poverty is wanting more than you have. The idea is being able to be grateful, to appreciate, to be good with what you've got. That's the recipe for a great year. Foreign.

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