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50 Harsh Stoic Truths 1. Difficult things are good for you. 2. You can't learn that which you think you know. 3. You are not that important. 4. Perfection is paralysis. 5. Positive visualization is bullshit. 6. You can't escape change. 7. If you don't take the money they can't tell you what to do. 8. It all gets rendered insignificant very quickly. 9. Results are extra. 10. It always takes longer than you think. 11. It stares you in the Face. 12. It's fortunate that this happened 13. It's going to take more out of you than you Think. 14. It's not that you read, It's what you read. 15. It's you're fault you're offfended. 16. Mind your own business. 17. Most of what you do doesn't matter. 18. Pleasure passes quickly. 19. Poverty is wanting more. 20. Reading a book is not enough. 21. Shut Up! 22. Stop having an opinion. 23. Stop arguing about what a good person is like. 24. Stop wanting so much stuff. 25. The less you talk the better you'll do. 26. Stop wanting the third thing. 27. The grudge you're holding is meaningless. 28. This is what you trained for. 29. Tolerant with others, Strict with yourself. 30. You are a slave. 31. Don't be part of the Mob. 32. You are the problem. 33. You can laugh or you can cry. 34. You haven't defined what success is. 35. You only control how you respond. 36. You will be forgotten. 37. You're not reading enough. 38. You're being too Idealistic. 39. You're gonna die. 40. You're gonna meet shitty people. 41. You're harming yourself. 42. You're hurting people. 43. You're neglecting the greatest empire. 44. You're not that impressive. 45. You're outsourcing your happiness. 46. You're not strong unless you can do something with your strength. 47. You're paying too close of attention. 48. You're weak if you lose your temper. 49. Your anger is impotent. 50. Your thoughts sucks.

" Man conquers the world by conquering himself. " - Zeno of Citium

I’ve had terrible experiences throughout life . Tragedy after tragedy. Losing my mom in my late teens. Losing my older brother shortly after. Losing my close friends while in the marines. Watching my father lose everything and go bankrupt afterwards and through it all was pain. But it made me realize just how much I am capable of. “Terrible experiences poses the riddle of showing whether the person who has them is not terrible.” I realized just how much strength and courage I had, all thanks to painful and terrible experiences. I came out the other side, which again, showed me just how strong I truly was. Had it not been for those experiences, I may have not been this tough, and had this perspective on life. I take everything with a grain of salt now. And am much more calm and collected now. But that came through an enormous amount of persistence and resilience via- pain. I don’t welcome this upon anyone, it’s just a nice tool or fresh reminder that life’s tragedy doesn’t make you a tragedy in it of itself. It provides oppurtunity to grow through it.

Difficult things are good for you. Excellent.

I can't believe I have access to all this free from my home!!! Thank you for everything! ❤

Trust in what is hard, it’s one of the hardest truths.

“ Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” - Kelly Clarkson, noted stoic philosopher.

I was on exercise in the Australian army at Shoalwater Bay on the central Queensland coast. It was a defensive activity so we had to dig out fighting pits, sleeping bays, communication trenches, put up wire obstacles, go on patrol etc. One hot day a grass fire came through our position. We were told to stay put. The fire passed and we were all overheated and coughing from the smoke. Then it started to rain and filled up our pits, and after sunset it got windy and cold with even more rain. At the end of the Ex there was a fighting withdrawal at night and long fast march of 40km to break contact. We could only laugh.

Ryan I’m an INFJ when I was able to connect with people that think and feel in a similar way that I do it was amazing … finding Robert and you have been the cherry on my ice cream 🍦🫶🏻 finally life makes sense to me Thanks! sending love and light in your way ❤

Good shit Ryan❤

It's Good to find something which constantly reminds me of Life changing wisdoms 👍

Ryan! This is an awesome video, very done and put together! The takeaway from this is to take action and make a decision and move on and up!

this video is epic. thank you. source helps 'course. thanks since the emails . great keeper of a video.

Thank You. Life changing perspectives.

you could not have put this video out at a better time. thank you!

I’ve just been introduced to you . I admittedly like to be informed and then make up my own mind . This headline says “will” . I would respond better to “could” . I have enjoyed what I’ve heard so far

Great stuff

Not sure why I’m just finding this, I often listen to Stoicism on YT. Anyway, THANK YOU! Concise and clear delivery.

Great meditation to start the day. Good reminder of how to live like the 2%.

This is so good it’s crazy …..💥🤙👊

Your videos are like healing remedies for the soul.. Thank you ❤️

This was a good video. I also appreciate how marcusaurelias is almost a single syllable word.

Wow. So much to unpack and think about here. I want to go through each one of these and think about each one for a whole week for a whole year. The other two weeks, I could be mindless.

Excellent, and a great reminder of what's important and what isn't. Whenever I watch videos like this, I always try to put myself in the shoes of someone with fewer advantages than me: not much money, precariously housed, children to look after, living in a part of the city with too much crime and violence. I'm sure these principles would still work for such a person, but I'm also certain that that person's life would be much harder than mine, and it makes me realise how lucky I am: good parents, nice home growing up, free education, good job, nice house.

Love the content brother. Helps me out every day. Keep it going 😎

Powerful! Thank you!

I LOVE these compilation videos of 50 lessons. I don't learn well from reading so these videos are very valuable for me.

I love how you (almost) always wear band t-shirts!

1:27 😂 Absolutely agreed 💯👌

Thank you for the msg

Great list.

2:19 The Key to freedom.

Another fantastic video, thanks!

Love it! What a great message to elevate my day!

Great video, thanks

Great video didn't know you and I got the same taste in music haha 😅 Megadeth and Iron Maiden all day

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. - Marcus Aurelius ❤❤

Negative visualization honestly was one of the biggest components of curing my anxiety. Now, when I say my anxiety is "cured" I don't mean it's gone. Anxiety is natural. I mean it no longer affects my life in the toxic way it did before. I don't ruminate on it or try to push it away. "Don't be scared, be prepared."

Life has growing pains. Comfort and growth seldom ride the same horse.

It's not to read enough or a lot, is to seek knowledge - the more knowledge you acquire, the more question(s) you see and ask and maybe get answered.

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Thanks broskie! 💪

What a great message for today! Thank you.

Temporal Telepathy, Telepathy through time. One of the influences/presences you feel in your recordings at the time of the recording comes from me viewing it in the future here on youtube. I think we can send messages through time via this.

Love to see Daily Stoic do an SMS service and drop a nugget of wisdom each day. The open/read rate would be about 98% vs the 20% email. I’d pay $10 a year for it if done right.

I wish you could talk to my neighbor. Dude needs a serious wake up call to change his ways of thinking and always being so angry at everything. I could use a talk too 😅😂❤❤ Seriously though, philosophy became what it is because of discussion between individuals; not just listening to a viewpoint. Modern philosophers need to create a place to connect with each other and discuss deep thoughts

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Regarding the reading I wonder if it would be better to read more books or to read few books more times. Stoicism started my interest in philosophy. Seneca said you should also read other philosophers and get more perspectives. He read Epicurus for example. Nowadays there are so much different views, it is incredible. Nietzsche, Kant, Schopenhauer, Dogen, Diogenes, Heraclitus, you name it. Why just stick with Stoic philosophers? Two lines that Ryan uses often aren't even coming from Stoic philosophers. "The obstacle is the way" comes from Hinduism I believe (can't remember exactly). And "amor fati" is from Nietzsche. It's not that I don't like Stoicism, but there is so much more to learn. And one thing I've learned is that even though different philosophies have different ideas, they somehow are mostly not at odds with each other.

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Great meditation to start the day to keep living like the 2%.

Stoicism is like edging. You are almost spirituality but not quite there yet.

" If it stink between the pink..run" -Herpedemis.

20 minutes of gold

The point of the “this is what I trained for” quote isn’t that EVERY moment is what you trained for-lots of moments are going to be good times to do more training, and if training is what you trained for then we are getting into some semantic silliness-it is that when moments arise in which there is a need for action (most action is not necessary) you should not cling to your books and weights to learn one more thing or do one more rep (or your covers for 5 more minutes in bed), but apply what you have and who you are to the task at hand until the task is done. Do you know what happens to performers who only perform and do not continue to practice? They get worse.

I need to be a part of the notification gang.

That's not how hospitals are supposed to work at all though.

Outstanding information,with world crisis,rising inflation and economic instability due to poor governance, consider digital assets as a means to attain financial freedom.

just here for the tshirts!

#48....

It's interesting that the Stoics formed independantly 500 years after Buddhism (or did they?).

“Your life sucks because your thoughts suck.” Goddamn. That one hit a nerve, but you’re absolutely right. Thanks. 👍🏼

Can you make a video specifically on stoic views on divorce? I’m sure this would help a lot of men and women going through or recovering from it. Thanks Ryan.

this is important can you slow down when you talk?

I am a good person I live around people who don't think the same thing has I do. I'm going to say what I want to I know u are reading about this I know. Let it go im done caring.

I think these truths only seem harsh when a person is ignorant of them or tries to resist them. Otherwise they are incredibly liberating.

Churchill had as much guilt as napoleon. Your so obvious.

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It has been said that 100 billion people were born, lived, and died before we showed up. How many of those 100 billion people do we know anything about?

Don’t say…. DO!

“People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it.” I think that’s the greatest struggle for many of us; it’s certainly been my greatest struggle throughout life. I don’t love what I do. I do what I do to pay bills. The things I enjoy in life are things I’ve yet to figure out a way to monetize. Life feels more like an obligation than a gift when you can’t find a way to support yourself doing something that actually fulfills you.

No more truths on this beautiful Saturday morning. Give us some chunky illusions. 😂

The street noise is a challenge. 😂

Go find a busy street to film a ted talk on

17:53 blood is still getting shat on so many many years later ouch

A life of fantasy always ends in tragedy...

Ryan desevers to be nationally known. He's changed my life. Whenever I forgot what the stoics have taught I always jump on one of Ryan's books and remember how silly I am stressed out about a situation. Sometimes stoicism scares me of how true it is.

Please don’t mention Tylor Swift for gods sake

I weed out new people fast. I ask. " what if you find out what you thought was correct isn't? Would you want it know? " There are two answers. 1. Yes. 2. Um, no or (my favorite) that depends.

JUST RECYCLING OTHERS' THOUGHTS.

First comment + First view

Please, so I may continue to take your videos seriously, never quote Travis Kelces gf ever again. Never ever

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