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Dying Every Day (Stoic Meditations)

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Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.

Latest episodes

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Remember Death. Return to Life. | Dying Every Day

Memento mori is a way to bring the important things back into the present. Through Montaigne and Seneca, this episode explores how remembering mortality can loosen our at

Oct 8
6 min

The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily

A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relatio

Oct 5
3 min

Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158. You’ve read the advice. Yo

Oct 1
16 min

The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily. You have been avoidin

Sep 28
4 min

Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions

📮 Check out my new course, Resist and Persist: https://perennial.substack.com/p/introducing-resist-and-persist Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Mortal Questions.

Sep 24
14 min

Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 157. What does it take to becom

Sep 17
46 min

"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily. You have been avoidin

Sep 15
4 min

"The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Letters from a Mortal. Before we be

Sep 10
6 min

The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily

📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Aristotle spent years

Sep 7
5 min

Day 156: The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the Stoics Knew About Freedom

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 156. Imagine a young man with ev

Sep 3
18 min

Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. The philosopher and the

Aug 28
4 min

Dying Daily: The Returning Mind

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Picture a man tied to t

Aug 24
3 min

Dying Daily: A Stoic Lesson from The Odyssey

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. Picture a man tied to t

Jul 22
13 min

Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 155. This week's episode is some

Jul 16
12 min

Day 154: Epictetus on the Discipline of Waiting | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 154. “Don’t demand that things h

Jul 9
5 min

Day 153: Stoicism and the Founding Fathers | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 153. “A day, an hour, of virtuou

Jul 4
13 min

Dying Daily: Seneca on Learning to Die

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. “He who has learned how

Jun 29
4 min

Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on Being Incorruptible | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 152. There is a man almost no on

Jun 25
10 min

Dying Daily: "You Decide What it Means" | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily. In today’s episode of D

Jun 17
8 min

Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on Becoming Whole | Dying Every Day

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 151. The Meditations are usually

Jun 10
10 min

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Great podcast for people looking to learn more about Stoic Philosophy in a shorter format! Easily digestible meditations that are thought-provoking at the same time.

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