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What The Daily Stoic Says About Reading
42 episodes about reading
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Key Insights on Reading
Synchron's BCI device avoids skull surgery by threading through blood vessels, modeled after cardiac stents
- Meta's mind-reading project achieved high accuracy using magnetoencephalography (MEG) to decode brain activity while participants typed sentences
- John advises founders to 'pick one thing and go deep on it personally' rather than spreading focus across multiple growth paths
- Reading Too Big to Fail reminded John that 'despite the headlines, life goes on' during economic uncertainty
- Churchill's 'wilderness years' of painting and reading poetry weren't torture but essential preparation for the marathon ahead, similar to pandemic forced breaks
- Day 80 concludes the desert wanderings period and the books of Numbers and Deuteronomy
- Day 99 begins the first messianic checkpoint with seven days reading through the Gospel of John
- Father Mike Schmitz leads day 70 of The Bible in a Year podcast, reading Numbers 22, Deuteronomy 23, and Psalm 105
Episodes
You Need An Ethical Will | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling
Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
You Can’t Help But Leave a Piece | Ask Daily Stoic
How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics)
This Is How You Release Your Anxiety | Quality Over Quantity
BONUS | Ryan Holiday Responds to Daniel Radcliffe
It Can Change Everything | A Real-Life Example of How to Build a Coaching Tree
Rock Bottom, Recovery, and Starting Over at 40 | Jon Gustin
The Stoic All the Stoics Admired
40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
What You Need is a Small Crisis | Show, Not Tell, What You Know
The Choice That Kept Dr. Edith Eger Alive In Auschwitz
Nothing Is As Encouraging As This | The Freedom of Contempt
The Most Powerful Lines From Marcus Aurelius
Why “Meditations” Needs a New Name—According to William O. Stephens
It’s Never an Accident | Ask Daily Stoic
Empower Yourself with This | Why You Need to Get In the Arena
You Are On The Right Timeline | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
You Don’t Have to Do It Alone
Prison Took His Freedom. Stoicism Gave It Back.
This is How You Have To See (and Respond To) Things | Becoming An Expert In What Matters
Heal Yourself With This | The Cure for a Reading Slump
If You’re Lost, You’re Asking the Wrong Question | Jim Collins (PT.1)
This Can Change the Course of Your Life
This is the Main Thing | Ask Daily Stoic
BONUS | Books You Can Finish In One Sitting (And Actually Remember)
The Perspective Shift I Had in Australia (A Stoic Lesson)
12 Stoic Remedies for When Life Feels Heavy
Are You Willing To Be Cut Off? | Say No To The Need To Impress
There Will Always Be People Who Don’t Get It | Hasan Minhaj Tests Ryan Holiday’s Stoic Knowledge
Books on reading
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