9 Stoic Secrets For Self-Mastery (From Experts)

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Given the fact that the mere mention of philosophy makes most nervous or bored, “Stoic philosophy” on the surface sounds like the last thing anyone would want to learn about, let alone urgently need in the course of daily life. But in reality, in Stoicism we have a tool to help us in our pursuit of self-mastery, perseverance, and wisdom: something one uses to live a great life.
Here are 9 Stoic Secrets from some of the great thinkers of the modern world: Alexander Ludwig, Tom Brady's Sports Psychologist Greg Harden, Joe Rogan, Robert Greene, Guy Raz, Steven Pressfield, Tony Gonzalez, Carli Lloyd, and Chris Bosh that will help you get the most out of your life and continue on the path to self-mastery.
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[@jonfibonacci]

1. Focus on the process 2. The mental game is the game 3. Don't quit when things get hard 4. Understand your emotions 5. Expand the definition of discipline 6. Overcome the Resistance 7. Seek stillness 8. Get obsessed 9. Hobbies lead to greatness Great video!

[@laurence7409]

Thank you @jonfibonacci for this sum up ! Great vidéo, very inspiring and pragmatic !

[@chaii_latte]

"The body should be treated more rigorously, that it may not be disobedient to the mind.” - Seneca

[@Shreddyme]

The mind sometimes over thinks not allowing the body to reach it's potential.🤔

[@skudkid4561]

​@eddyromekw as someone with Adhd I feel this, but, like in meditation we must acknowledge the thoughts, recognise them and let them go. Working on this every day.

[@adell5675]

9:11 I’ve experienced my own hardships, 24 years young despite being an older soul due to my past. I don’t define my traumas as a trauma anymore, they’re the strength builders. I love my personality and mindset and it’s rare to others. My therapist was obsessed with my stoic mindset and she’s a lot older than me so it always stuck and touched my heart. If you’re here watching this video, you’re on the right pages in life I promise.

[@chrismullin8304]

When Greene described observing homself from 6” away, is similar to how I view myself, as an avatar that I can decide/control how it acts/reacts to situations. It gives me a weird control of being able to stay calm and clear, during high stress situations. A very good analogy. Err….Metaphor.

[@kirsten4803]

I was so inspired and motivated by this video!

[@itsmichaelmai]

Awesome!

[@ekurisona663]

the pain of discipline...or the pain of regret...

[@leighwilsonartist]

The one thing keeps coming up is balance, you can grind yourself into the ground for your passion and that’s the mindset at the start, but then you realise you need calm and quiet and to have time away with something else to keep you refreshed. It may be called burnout but you need to sustain your mind by giving it an outlet.

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@natlovell122]

That’s exactly why I love hiking and backpacking so much

[@nerd26373]

Self mastery obviously doesn't occur overnight. You have to realize that it takes time to master a particular skill or mindset that you intend to incorporate in every facet of how you perceive the world and the people in it.

[@michaelpatrickmilligan]

Very true, with the possible exception of when you're 18 and find yourself at Parris Island in Marine Corps boot camp. You find it overnight or else.

[@StoicLegend_]

"It's not where you are that matters, but how you view it." - Epictetus

[@theforensicbadass]

The Mental Game IS The Game. And... Don't quit when things get hard. My favs. Stoic AF. Thanks Ryan.

[@X1offroad]

I honestly love this channel I’m feel full charged

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@truthbetold9915]

Charge your own batteries, I say that with the most sincerity. Look within and drive yourself to achieve. Sustainable results come from changing who you are, that takes time, hard work and patience. To quote Seneca - quit talking about what it takes to be a good man, be one. Good luck 👍

[@cabie58]

Thanks for what you do, Ryan

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@sumernoel1553]

Your content helps me so much. Thank you 🙏 These last few years of chaos have been so overwhelming that I find myself unmoored. Listening to a message from Daily Stoic helps me to feel a bit more grounded, hopeful, & ready to get back up to try again.

[@karenjohnston9201]

Chelon, one of the 7 ancient Greek sages said that gesticulation should be seen as a form of insanity. It is in theory our moving elements trying to get involved in speaking where it isn’t really needed. Have you ever considered also studying these Ancient Greek sages? All my best, thank you.

[@1k1ngst0n]

thank you for these amazing videos and content

[@aaronwimberleymbamsf5776]

Great meditation to start the day. I love and live by the mantra "premeditacio malorem" which allows us to "envision" the outcomes, and gather the right "provisions" to execute successfully, and make "revisions" of the processes that were flawed in our work. Also, premeditacio malorem allows us to plan for the best possible outcome, the worst possible outcome, and find the love and the joy of the harmony that happens which we realize the dialectics of what happens there somewhere in the middle. "Both & Thinking" has helped me with my creative process and to free up my senses of higher order thinking. Foresight is the forefather of creative insights. We actively need to be envisioning the "force majeure" and neutralizing/mitigating it. We need to offer safe places in both the kitchen and board-rooms for dissent, so that we have reached a better sense of private conversations in the public "oikos", and we need to evaluate every node of the decision tree, and decision roots to be making more robust/wholistic decisions, that also benefit the civic good.

[@Gm__MUA]

Relaxed intensity…best of both worlds.

[@itsmichaelmai]

Festina Lente :)

[@LuxETenebris33]

These concepts are great, well done video as well, love it. I AM going to sign up for that email, change it up a little, I have been utilizing the daily meditations from James Allen's book Mind is the Master. I love what your doing, thank you.

[@qantutero4358]

that running form is amazing

[@user-uw7lu2sp5n]

Cool thanks

[@OkayThankYou253]

2:39 this applies to making sales calls too! When you do it you out preform anyone who doesn't!

[@OkayThankYou253]

Also what you practice matters! If you make sales calls with a bad script you won't set appointments so make sure you have a good script to follow before you practice all the wrong stuff and it doesn't help!

[@magickodaly_]

Ryan’s videos and stoicism have honestly helped me more than any therapy ever has, it’s still insane to me we get all of this and the daily email for free but I’m so unbelievably grateful.

[@leslielamb8699]

Best ever !!

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@DarLaZad]

Hey, advice for a new video: Yours is very ethics based Why not do some that’s logic based, or even physics based (ofcorse on the stoic doctrine) I feel like those parts are so important also

[@JusticeBurpees]

Very good I love the idea. Unfortunately modern Stoics like Ryan Holiday reject the concept of Providence, perhaps as to not offend religious views of the audience?

[@DarLaZad]

@@JusticeBurpees providence is in most religions anyway

[@timmortimer7528]

Case in point being that the reason why calmness is important and that it works, is related to the Second Law of Thermodynamics where energy transfers from heat/chaos towards calm/cool.

[@truthbetold9915]

@@JusticeBurpees not sure that’s true, he’ll plug Stacy Abrams as a pioneer but won’t do a logic based narrative? I think his agenda is pretty obvious. Ryan Holiday uses stoicism and Marcus Aurelius to make a living off people searching for meaning and a purpose in their lives. I guess that’s ok but it’s very far removed from the original intent of the stoic teachings.

[@i_observe9846]

Religion is bullshit​@@JusticeBurpees

[@gerRule]

Never really heard much about Tom Brady before but I’ll take a lot from the way he was talked about in this video

[@nicolasflamel3489]

Thanks for existing Ryan. Your work has been of help and motivation.

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@lukeclaydon6670]

Good 👍

[@OkayThankYou253]

7:17 like putting line in a weed eater 😂

[@KetovoreGal]

I enjoy your videos, but they are getting hard to watch with so many ads.

[@silentdayreddit9114]

My purpose in the market today is to make more money to cover my daily expenses, not to keep losing money. I don't know what to do to change that.

[@StiMullen]

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[@pakistanihackers9140]

I'm surprised you mentioned Mr. Dan Price. Because of him, I'm now retiring.

[@pakistanihackers9140]

Sure, I lost about 150,000 dollars in the stock market. But my friend made very much and even quit his job and started traveling around the globe, I was very confused and finally he told me about Mr. "Dan Price CFA". At first I didn't trust him and only made a small investment, but I didn't expect to make a profit of 20,000 dollars in just one month. This made slowly trust him. As of now I have paid off all my bank loans and started my retirement early!

[@pakistanihackers9140]

@HCKRSGMR-qm9kn Of course you can google "Dan PriceCFA", he's in the news a lot and is very well known.

[@FenellaMarshall]

I also googled "Dan PriceCFA" and saw his resume, it's excellent!

[@user-lb1fl7sh8m]

where can i find the podcast at 3:18 ?

[@funkymystic]

How do I find out who the guests are are different points in the video?

[@gabriellacassano6]

Love your videos however one suggestion is the lowering of volume of the background music. When you speak sometimes the volume makes it difficult for me and my husband to concentrate on what you are saying. We love the music, just not as loud when you speak. A suggestion.

[@Terri_2.0]

Agree.

[@user-zk6ek4sw2k]

Hi Ryan

[@mtwata]

Just a feedback here: I can usually hear you pretty well but I found it quite hard to hear what you're saying in the first few minutes. Idk if the music is too loud compared to the volume of your voice.

[@Terri_2.0]

I don´t know who ever thought it was a good idea to add music to these videos. So many complain about it all over the internet, but people keep adding it to their videos whether we like it or not.

[@MindfulnessMeditateManifest]

Hey Ryan, just a heads up you forgot to put the header in at 13:55

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@karlenewaugh6820]

6 inches isn't far but i can understand, the emotion is within you, therefore, it's very close but you view the emotion from a minute distance but you aim to focus on the awareness + separation.

[@reflectotanjiro582]

Bjorn Ironside❤❤❤❤

[@johnwibbels4678]

If you treat don’t your body with difficulty. Life will do it for you and you will have no control of your body and ultimately your life Body mind and then the soul will be seen as a present experience. Everything will be but it how you perceive it. That’s your choice!

[@collinsochieng1626]

Sound is too low man

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@ddmmzzmm]

Who is the second man talking???

[@DJSTOEK]

❤❤

[@GreyRock100]

Our boi Ryan has mastered himself so well, he forgets to whack it.

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@CoachTC23]

I’m still glad he wrote these books and shared stoicism, even if he behaves the opposite in life.

[@kuziva2100]

Be!

[@0ptimal]

Yet somehow theres a sizeable portion of people, prominent scientists even, who believe we have no free will. Even to the point of not holding people responsible for their bad choices. They seem to desire such a thing be true, and so interpret anything possible in a way that supports it.

[@BeanSprouts02]

6:49

[@Panzer67]

Sure, right, yeah lol

[@christopherrucks1341]

Who’s the dude talking about Tom Brady?

[@deanodog3667]

Just read the primary sources and save your money !!

[@ishaandesai6290]

amazing video but what a segway to the AD

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@ankd956]

SERENITY NOW!

[@TheThoughtfulTales]

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[@triple_sec0]

“You need hatred.” Nope.

[@The_MidwestMisfit]

I think Ryan should do a year of consecutive daily marathons. A select handful or so have done it , most recently Gary McKee , and I’m challenging Ryan to tackle the feat. Then we’ll see if he can really practice what he preaches. Go for it Ryan.

[@p.c.h.6721]

There was a time when radio broadcasters and people working on TV were able to make a living by talking, these days, it seems, that too many people are using talking to make a living. I believe 99% of the advice you hear will be forgotten in less than a few minutes, it’s up to you to talk to yourself to keep improving, so don’t waste too much time listening to someone else’s advice.

[@HaleStorm49]

Step #10 - Get it on camera.

[@user-lg5yk9wb2r]

I like your content but at around 18:00 it gets really rough with the usage of the word "like". Makes you sound like a Kardashian. You can get that under control brother.

[@irreduciblerascal]

If it were all about hard work ... we'd all be successful (whatever you aspire success to be) averyone can hard work ... and everyone can get fucked over

[@i_observe9846]

What's your point

[@jackstaub9221]

Quit saying “like” for the love of God

[@i_observe9846]

Lol

[@bhindigosh1]

Ryan slowly selling out to companies Talking up stoicism and sell hoka? 100 or more dollars shoes Comeon man

[@user-uf5sh7ku8z]

Ryan doesn't control what ads pop up for you. KZbin does.

[@JoelNJohnson]

Your content is more ad than video

[@chrisfischer5552]

Is Ryan Holiday a leftist?

[@einarrull]

If you are a hammer, everything seems to be a nail.

[@mainenative5928]

He had Joe Rogan on....

[@sarangbsr]

​@@einarrullwell said👍🏻👍🏻

[@justinduffer9500]

​@@mainenative5928 Rogan is a leftist too, but the two of them aren't as radical or repulsive as your average leftist. Really crazy how a lot of the radical lefts ideas have become so mainstream and normalized.

[@crazybutnot2crazy706]

Lost me w/ the Stacy Abrams in the opening scene.

[@nevertellmethaoddz8581]

very stoic of you to let us know 🙄

[@truthbetold9915]

He’s right , RH panders, he’s fos for $$$$,

[@nevertellmethaoddz8581]

@@truthbetold9915 I don’t know what kind of stoic you are if the main thing you are pulling from the video is Ryan’s political opinion.

[@truthbetold9915]

@@nevertellmethaoddz8581 and you’re the judge of Stoics? I think not, I see him for what he is, you, you need your hand held every day, very stoic of you …. Not

[@nevertellmethaoddz8581]

@@truthbetold9915 and right to the childish internet trash talk. Suspected as much.

[@JRStoud]

Gtfo with 28-3. It’s 2023. Can’t take anything away from Brady but the falcons coaching staff lost that game more than he single handedly won it with his discipline.

[@jeanne553]

Please stop filming yourself running.

[@TotallyNotAva1]

Why would that bother you? 🤣

[@nPcDrone]

Please help, is there translation of meditations without all the damn doths and thous and thees? I can not stand that crap.

[@juanpanadero1680]

I like your content. Joe Rogan is not a serious person and his inclusion detracts from your purpose

[@gronksteady]

Noooo please don't promote Hokas 🤦‍♂️ they are so bad for the health of your feet and knees. Wrong direction. Acclimate to barefoot shoes!

[@maxwellbrill8001]

Love your attitude, but your political leanings are very questionable, Abrams and Sanders they seem to be the complete opposite of your philosophy 😊

[@mainenative5928]

Was great until Joe Rogan came up; had to scroll past him. Not a good person.

[@InknbeansPress]

All right, I'm done with you. 0:47 you used Stacey Abrams as an example of a disciplined politician. This is the woman who claimed that requiring ID for voting is racist, and who claimed that the heartbeat of an unborn child is a manufactured sound. As you have said, there is so much over which we have no control, but you, Ryan, can control the examples you hold up for us to emulate, and I can control my KZbin subscriptions. Buh-bye.

[@RyanHolidayYT]

Should I have provided a trigger warning for you?

[@InknbeansPress]

@@RyanHolidayYT Thank you for responding, especially with a fair and reasonable question. Trigger warning? Certainly not, and I wasn't triggered (depending on your definition). I simply provided you feedback on your content, and made a reasoned and reasonable decision based on my values. Your 1.3 million subscribers obviously find value in your content. I actually wish you continued success.

[@jennajewert]

​@@InknbeansPressYou sounded pretty triggered to me 😬

[@ThrillhouseFPV]

Fun fact: you can go away without announcing it. No one cares.

[@truthbetold9915]

@@RyanHolidayYT you shouldn’t pander to a narrative of obvious bias. You should also stop merchandising on the heals of Stoicism and in particular Marcus Aurelius. Nowhere in the history of the philosophy especially at its origins did these stoic philosophers seek to profit from their teachings. You not so much. What’s next Special thanks demoted at the bottom of your videos for a few more shekels?

[@rsi4561]

I like when the guy says.. GREAT politician he shows Bernie Sanders. the rogan clown would think trump is.

[@RukhsarManzoor]

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[@jeffhodge7333]

You should be able to cover nine points in about five minutes. Time is precious, as you have said. Do not steal 20 minutes of my life. Please be more concise.