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How To Train Yourself

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You don’t lift a weight one time and become strong. You aren’t taught something once and it stays in your mind forever. You don’t do the right thing once and it becomes a lifelong habit.

It would be nice if it worked that way, but it doesn’t.

Many, many more reps are required. In life and in philosophy.

As Epictetus said, philosophy is a “hard winter’s training,” practice that a soldier does in the safety of camp so they might draw on it in the heat of battle. “You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works,” Seneca said, “if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your mind.” Stoicism is designed to be a practice and a routine. It’s not a philosophy you read once and magically understand at the soul-level. No, it’s a lifelong pursuit that requires diligence and repetition and concentration (Pierre Hadot called it spiritual exercising).

This is one of the ideas behind The Daily Stoic.

Since publication 7 years ago, The Daily Stoic has sold well over 1 million copies and spent more weeks on the bestseller list than any other book about Stoicism ever. Of course, that success is a reflection of the timeless power of Stoic teachings above all. But it’s also a testament to the power of combining the right idea with the right medium.

Training is difficult. And when there are obstacles or friction in the way of doing it…people will find a way not to do it. That’s why the Daily Stoic team has put so much time and energy into making these ideas and that process of philosophical exercise as accessible as possible. We put out Stoic lessons every day on the Daily Stoic podcast and on the Daily Stoic Instagram, TikTok, Twitter and YouTube accounts. We’ve translated The Daily Stoic into 40 languages. And we even created a cool leather edition to stand the test of time.

And today, so price can’t be an excuse, we got our publisher to discount The Daily Stoic ebook to just $1.99 in the U.S. and U.K.

Every day, all over the world, literally millions of people are practicing Stoicism together–going through the same spiritual exercises that Marcus Aurelius was doing in Rome or Zeno was doing in Athens thousands of years ago. They are training themselves, challenging themselves, lingering on the master-thinkers, building muscle memory so that they can draw on that strength when they need it.

Will you join them? Will you put in your reps?