Realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.

The next book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic Virtues Series—Right Thing, Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. is available for preorder! Get yours here: dailystoic.com/justice

This book is a powerful antidote to the moral failures of our modern age and a manual for

A creative pursuit is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.

We want to matter. We want to be important. We want to have freedom and power to pursue our creative work. We want respect from our peers and recognition for our accomplishments. Not out of vanity or selfishness, but of an earnest desire to fulfill our personal potential.

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end.

We must be willing to roll the dice and lose. Prepare, at the end of the day, for none of it to work.

The great law of nature is that it never stops. There is no end.

The 10th anniversary of my book The Obstacle Is The Way is coming up this year.

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Don’t waste a second looking back at your expectations. Face forward, and face it with a smug little grin.

New episode with Charles Duhigg on The Daily Stoic Podcast: 'How To Be A Supercommunicator'

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The world might call you a pessimist. Who cares? It’s far better to seem like a downer than to be blindsided or caught off guard.

The path of least resistance is a terrible teacher.

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit.

If you want momentum, you’ll have to create it yourself, right now, by getting up and getting started.

Early in his pro tennis career, Andre Agassi couldn’t beat a player named Boris Becker.

Agassi particularly struggled with Becker’s serve.

“His serve was something the game had never seen before,” Agassi explained.

Studying film of Becker, “I started to realize,” Agassi

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No thank you, I can’t afford to panic.

“When a man can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” — Viktor Frankl

Where the head goes, the body follow. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.