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Key Insights on Writing

Through microprogression training, Tijin went from basic counting to completing 57 college units and writing essays

  • Hebrew writing shows consequences through narrative patterns rather than immediate moral commentary
  • Modern biology has three new technology classes: better sequencing for reading, neural networks for thinking, and CRISPR for writing - creating "a new kind of Turing loop"
  • Most entrepreneurial fears are 'false evidence appearing real' - writing down worst-case scenarios reveals 90% are completely unreasonable
  • In The Daily Stoic Journal 366 Days of Writing and Reflection on the Art of Living, Holiday emphasizes that our intentions cannot be impeded.
  • The memoir took 20 years to complete, evolving from academic writing style to novelistic 'show don't tell' approach with greater honesty about family complexities
  • Being Green broke all children's songwriting rules by having no end rhymes, unlike typical songs that rhyme everything
  • Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton won the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing and became a New York Times bestseller, exploring how a baby hare transformed pandemic isolation into profound connection with nature

Episodes

It’s So Hard To Find | Stop Looking For This

It’s So Hard To Find | Stop Looking For This

12 Stoic Rules For A Better Life

12 Stoic Rules For A Better Life

Men Are Reading Less Fiction. That’s A Problem. | Steven Pressfield

Men Are Reading Less Fiction. That’s A Problem. | Steven Pressfield

Which Of These Are You? | What's In Your Way Is The Way

Which Of These Are You? | What's In Your Way Is The Way

Step Outside, But Not To Brawl | How to Get Out of Bed When Life Feels Heavy

Step Outside, But Not To Brawl | How to Get Out of Bed When Life Feels Heavy

You Have To Be Both These Things | The Long Way Around

You Have To Be Both These Things | The Long Way Around

You Need An Ethical Will | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

You Need An Ethical Will | Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

What Our Fathers Teach Us, For Better Or Worse | Tom Junod

What Our Fathers Teach Us, For Better Or Worse | Tom Junod

How To Love Your Country Without Lying About It | Ty Seidule

How To Love Your Country Without Lying About It | Ty Seidule

Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life

Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life

A Stoic's Guide To Looksmaxxing

A Stoic's Guide To Looksmaxxing

A Stoic Masterclass for Ambitious People | Codie Sanchez

A Stoic Masterclass for Ambitious People | Codie Sanchez

You Can’t Help But Leave a Piece | Ask Daily Stoic

You Can’t Help But Leave a Piece | Ask Daily Stoic

You’re Never Going to Be Perfect | Ask Daily Stoic

You’re Never Going to Be Perfect | Ask Daily Stoic

This is What Money Is Jealous Of | The Stoic Is A Work In Progress

This is What Money Is Jealous Of | The Stoic Is A Work In Progress

How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics)

How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics)

Gavin Newsom on Ego, Power, and Stoicism

Gavin Newsom on Ego, Power, and Stoicism

How Much Is Left? | The Stoic Protocol for Your Next Zoom Call

How Much Is Left? | The Stoic Protocol for Your Next Zoom Call

The Stoic Code General Mattis Lives By

The Stoic Code General Mattis Lives By

This Is Inseparable From Living a Good Life

This Is Inseparable From Living a Good Life

We Owe It All To Them | What Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Mother

We Owe It All To Them | What Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Mother

Rock Bottom, Recovery, and Starting Over at 40 | Jon Gustin

Rock Bottom, Recovery, and Starting Over at 40 | Jon Gustin

The Stoic All the Stoics Admired

The Stoic All the Stoics Admired

It Can’t Think About You | How to Be a Better Friend, According to the Stoics

It Can’t Think About You | How to Be a Better Friend, According to the Stoics

You Think You Want Autonomy. You Don’t. | David Epstein

You Think You Want Autonomy. You Don’t. | David Epstein

When Your Passion Is Master of Your Reason… | We Are a Product of Our Habits

When Your Passion Is Master of Your Reason… | We Are a Product of Our Habits

40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

What You Need is a Small Crisis | Show, Not Tell, What You Know

What You Need is a Small Crisis | Show, Not Tell, What You Know

BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

The Choice That Kept Dr. Edith Eger Alive In Auschwitz

The Choice That Kept Dr. Edith Eger Alive In Auschwitz

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