50 (Short) Rules For Life From The Stoics

Ryan Holiday defines 50 rules for life from the Stoics, gathered from their immense body of work across two thousand years. These rules functioned, then, as now, as guides to what the ancients called “the good life.” Hopefully some of them will illuminate your own path.

00:00 intro
01:03 Focus on what you can control.
01:24 You control how you respond to things.
01:59 Ask yourself, “Is this essential?”
02:28 Meditate on your mortality every day.
02:47 Value time more than money/possessions.
03:11 You are the product of your habits.
03:28 Remember you have the power to have no opinion.
03:58 Own the morning.
04:28 Put yourself up for review (Interrogate yourself).
04:46 Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
05:18 Try to see the good in people.
05:41 Never be overheard complaining…even to yourself.
06:02 Two ears, one mouth…for a reason (Zeno)
06:12 There is always something you can do.
06:33 Don’t compare yourself to others.
07:06 Live as if you’ve died and come back (every minute is bonus time).
07:25 “The best revenge is not to be like that.” Marcus Aurelius
07:48 Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others.
08:09 Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it.
08:41 Learn something from everyone.
09:12 Focus on process, not outcomes.
09:41 Define what success means to you.
10:14 Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor fati).
10:46 Seek out challenges.
11:11 Don’t follow the mob.
12:00 Grab the “smooth handle.”
12:34 Every person is an opportunity for kindness (Seneca)
12:57 Say no (a lot).
13:33 Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
14:15 Find one thing that makes you wiser every day.
14:54 What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee (Marcus Aurelius)
15:24 Don’t judge other people.
15:53 Study the lives of the greats.
16:30 Forgive, forgive, forgive.
17:01 Make a little progress each day.
17:26 Journal.
18:34 Prepare for life’s inevitable setbacks (premeditatio malorum)
19:08 Look for the poetry in ordinary things.
19:46 To do wrong to one, is to do wrong to yourself. (sympatheia)
20:07 Always choose “Alive Time.”
20:38 Associate only with people that make you better.
21:04 If someone offends you, realize you are complicit in taking offense.
21:36 Fate behaves as she pleases…do not forget this.
21:50 Possessions are yours only in trust.
22:31 Don’t make your problems worse by bemoaning them.
23:03 Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference.
23:50 Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom. (Always).
24:21 The obstacle is the way.
24:47 Ego is the enemy.
25:09 Stillness is the key.

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[neontoastanimations]

Writes ten books on stoicism, and also puts out a ton of free advice and information on YouTube? This dude is my hero.

[R__]

"You can't change your friends, but you can change your friends". Took me a while to get it but damn it's a good reminder

[avajones]

Amor Fati’s potential is limitless. I achieved success with the easy steps below.

[DailyStoic]

The Rules:

01:03 Focus on what you can control.
01:24 You control how you respond to things.
01:59 Ask yourself, “Is this essential?”
02:28 Meditate on your mortality every day.
02:47 Value time more than money/possessions.
03:11 You are the product of your habits.
03:28 Remember you have the power to have no opinion.
03:58 Own the morning.
04:28 Put yourself up for review (Interrogate yourself).
04:46 Don’t suffer imagined troubles.
05:18 Try to see the good in people.
05:41 Never be overheard complaining…even to yourself.
06:02 Two ears, one mouth…for a reason (Zeno)
06:12 There is always something you can do.
06:33 Don’t compare yourself to others.
07:06 Live as if you’ve died and come back (every minute is bonus time).
07:25 “The best revenge is not to be like that.” Marcus Aurelius
07:48 Be strict with yourself and tolerant with others.
08:09 Put every impression, emotion, to the test before acting on it.
08:41 Learn something from everyone.
09:12 Focus on process, not outcomes.
09:41 Define what success means to you.
10:14 Find a way to love everything that happens (Amor fati).
10:46 Seek out challenges.
11:11 Don’t follow the mob.
12:00 Grab the “smooth handle.”
12:34 Every person is an opportunity for kindness (Seneca)
12:57 Say no (a lot).
13:33 Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
14:15 Find one thing that makes you wiser every day.
14:54 What’s bad for the hive is bad for the bee (Marcus Aurelius)
15:24 Don’t judge other people.
15:53 Study the lives of the greats.
16:30 Forgive, forgive, forgive.
17:01 Make a little progress each day.
17:26 Journal.
18:34 Prepare for life’s inevitable setbacks (premeditatio malorum)
19:08 Look for the poetry in ordinary things.
19:46 To do wrong to one, is to do wrong to yourself. (sympatheia)
20:07 Always choose “Alive Time.”
20:38 Associate only with people that make you better.
21:04 If someone offends you, realize you are complicit in taking offense.
21:36 Fate behaves as she pleases…do not forget this.
21:50 Possessions are yours only in trust.
22:31 Don’t make your problems worse by bemoaning them.
23:03 Accept success without arrogance, handle failure with indifference.
23:50 Courage. Temperance. Justice. Wisdom. (Always).
24:21 The obstacle is the way.
24:47 Ego is the enemy.
25:09 Stillness is the key.

[nanamare]

My nephew turned me onto your email, and YouTube shows. I’m 71 in the throws of mourning my husband of 47 years and you have given me more to know in this life I have lived so far. I thank you for that. We have had a beautiful marriage of which I’m beyond grateful and I have many blessings in my grandchild my family and the people around me. I’m glad to add you as one of those blessings to make even more of this life that I have no regrets of. I’m sad and missing but I also know what I had and what I have and all to give. Thank you

[machomarty]

"Look for the poetry in ordinary things." Back in college I took a poetry writing course. I remember my professor stressing the idea that if you're going for a walk or a jog that you shouldn't wear headphones because you miss out on the beauty of so many things. Your surroundings and even the rhythm of your own heartbeat are beautiful things that can inspire many great lines. I've never forgot this and even though I don't write poetry anymore, I still think like a poet. However, I wouldn't recommend not wearing headphones in a gym because they're usually blaring some garbage.

[shelleyhe]

As a recovering addict stoicism is the best philosophy I could have ever encountered. I still have a long way to go to being the person I want to be but employing these strategies has transformed me into a person I can be proud of. I've been in sobriety / recovery since 2017. Have overcome severe mental health conditions and am focusing on my passion in life. Its wonderful.

[kirstymackenzie]

When I think of Marcus Aurelius’s teachings I always remember - Give me the SERENITY to ACCEPT the things that I can’t control, the COURAGE to CHANGE the things that I can, and the WISDOM to know the DIFFERENCE. ❤😊

[andriilevchenko]

It is almost 6 month of war here in Ukraine. And my native city is right on the front line. All these missile strikes, artillery, etc. ruining places that were part of my life and killing people I knew made me to revise some thoughts on life priorities. Extreme situations like this kind of underline what is really important in your life. A food and water enough to be healthy and sometimes something tasty just for pleasure of tasting a good dish. Clean and warm bed to sleep. Possibility of having a walk in the park and watching birds, squirrels, etc. People you care are in safety and are healthy. An opportunity to work on things you want to master. This is actually it. Its actually what is enough.
Situation brought me to something on the edge of stoicism and Nietzschean overcoming of yourself. And while googling on stoicism I came across with your channel.
Just want to say - thank you. You are doing a great job sharing thoughts and spreading an ideas to people that need them!

[Gunny]

I’ve been listening to this video every morning for the last 3weeks while getting ready and it’s made me more relaxed and I’ve seen an improvement in myself 👍🏻

[tylerholland]

This is the first person I’ve seen organize book shelves by color and I’m kinda digging it.

[SJROBINSON]

Journal: “Instead of dumping on someone, it made me better, ” - that one really hit home, thank you 🙏

[jjruizsoriano]

It’s with all this stoicism trend nowadays that I’ve discovered that I’ve been a stoic all my life without even knowing it! Interestingly, sometimes I felt that I had an “uncommon” approach to the situations which didn’t match the usual behavior of many people, and that made me think that maybe I was wrong about my way of thinking. But it just happened that I was a stoic 😄 good that now I can name it and be proud of it!

[janelperez]

Since I was a kid I have read stoicism, became so depressed under the pandemic and brought me back to stoicism, under the pandemic I had reviewed my entire lifetime, I had not find regrets on me, other than not getting my Hi School Diploma or GED.

[holeymcsockpuppet]

In a culture that sees asking for help as a sign of weakness, no single act carries the weight of true strength more than rejecting the entire culture by asking for that help.

[joshuawebb]

I attend a local Greek Orthodox Church, and my priest has told me repeatedly " strict with yourself, and lenient with others "
Our job is to work on us .
" Acquire a spirit of peace and thousands around you will be saved"
-St Seraphim of Sarov

[daynightandsarah]

I just realised I can totally use "the obstacle is the way" when teaching maths. We talk in education about how the struggle to understand something is actually so important to making it stick in your brain. Anything to keep up my persona as the "weird teacher" anyway lol.

[ll]

Life changing advice! Well spoken my friend!

[peaceandlove]

These virtues are basically the same as the fruits of the Holly Spirit we are though to practice for an enriched, Peacefull, meaningful life and Afterlife

[malcolmtheyeti]

I went through everything you said and meditated on each one. It was a long time well spent