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9 Important Things About Being Stoic I Learned from Ryan Holiday
It’s still 2020 and I’m counting the days. To call it a year of uncertainty is an understatement. Chaotic. Anxiety-ridden. News-filled. Exasperating. A time of many questions yet little answers. A time that appears like it crawls slowly some days while we’re stuck indoors waiting for the chaos to subside. On other days, a year that scrambles so quickly ahead that weeks become months, timelines are blurred, seasons start looking the same, leaving us thinking, How do we deal with all this?
Like you, I find myself looking to people wiser than me to figure out the answer. I turn to books. The Stoics in particular. And not just the classics — Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius. There’s a contemporary voice whose quiet wisdom makes a lot of sense to me. Especially now.
Here are nine important things — for the mind, spirit, and body — I learned from Ryan Holiday and his latest book Stillness in the Key.
FOR YOUR MIND.
- Limit your inputs.
Be aware of how much news you consume on a daily basis. The more you read and listen, the more overwhelmed you will be. There is a big difference between being informed and feeling panicked. Limit the news watching time to just a couple of times a day, and resist the urge to spend hours scrolling through…
