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For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives.

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It Started Small (Who Would Imagine It Would Make This Far?) | Matt Choi’s Daily Stoic Practice

October 20, 2026

Ryan Holiday (0:00)

Welcome to The Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice and wisdom into the real world.

At first, there were only a few of them. A small group gathering to hear Zeno teach on the Stoa Pochile, the painted porch in Athens, around 300 BC. They came to discuss how to live, how to challenge each other, how to become better people. But a porch can only fit so many people.

Matt Choi (4:06)

I post it every single day. Yeah, it's funny, because I was going to joke with them, I was going to say, Ryan, I'm sure like I've actually might have impacted some sales because people tell me that they don't buy it because I post it every day and they just watch it off my story. But equally, I've gotten many…

But I've been reading The Daily Stoic for the past three years.

Ryan Holiday (4:26)

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