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Here at Daily Stoic, July is Epictetus Month, in honor of the former slave turned philosopher who shaped the minds of presidents and kings, and there’s never been a better time to go deeper in your studies.
If you truly want to understand Epictetus’ Discourses—to move beyond reading philosophy and start living it—we’ve created something for you:
Head to dailystoic.com/epictetuscourse to grab your book, guide, or bundle today!
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
What Epictetus came to understand is that wisdom is freedom. From the things that have enslaved and controlled and directed people for all time. From ignorance. From stupid opinions. From immature emotions and childish impulses. From desires and delusions. From bitterness and frustration and resentment.
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
 In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares lessons from Epictetus’s life and teaching, including the mind’s power over physical, fleeting pains:
“The injury, for Epictetus, is a kind of philosophical lesson that the mind is separate from the body. That it is higher than the body, that the body can be wounded, but the mind retains the power to decide what that means — and how to respond.” Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
 In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with Chet Garner, host of Texas travel show The Daytripper, on how the Stoics thought about travel in the ancient world and finding stillness in the present moment with your kids:
“When my wife and I go for a date, the first thing we say is ‘I miss the kids.’ You’re going to miss it immediately. I’m not looking forward to them moving out. I love [this stage of life], you know, even though it’s also exhausting and the schedules are a nightmare. I have to constantly remind myself there’ll be a place for the future, and there was a place for the past. I have to get to the point where I can say ‘this is where we’re at right now.’” Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
“A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.” — Education of a Wandering Man by Louis L’Amour
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