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Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)

Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)

Perennial Leader Project 161 Episodes Jul 22, 2026

Dying Every Day is a podcast by the Perennial Leader Project. Each episode turns a selected passage from Stoic philosophy into a guided meditation designed to help you (and me) contemplate what it means to live a ‘good’ life. Learn more at perennial.substack.com.

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Dying Daily: A Stoic Lesson from The Odyssey
Dying Daily: A Stoic Lesson from The Odyssey Jul 22, 2026 825 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.Picture a man tied to the mast of his own ship.He gave the order himself. Bind me here, he told his crew, and whatever I say, however I beg, do not untie me until we’re past. Then he had them fill their own ears with beeswax so they couldn’t hear a
Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day
Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day Jul 16, 2026 747 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 155.This week's episode is something a little different. Over the past few months, I've been building an audio course called "Resist and Persist: The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline." And I wanted you to hear the introduction. Mostly because the argument it m
Day 154: Epictetus on the Discipline of Waiting | Dying Every Day
Day 154: Epictetus on the Discipline of Waiting | Dying Every Day Jul 9, 2026 303 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 154.“Don’t demand that things happen as you wish, but wish that they happen as they do happen, and you will go on well.”— Epictetus, EnchiridionWaiting reveals what the soul believes it deserves.The delayed reply. The stalled decision. The slow line.The se
Day 153: Stoicism and the Founding Fathers | Dying Every Day
Day 153: Stoicism and the Founding Fathers | Dying Every Day Jul 4, 2026 786 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 153.“A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.” — Joseph Addison, Cato: A Tragedy (1713)In the brutal winter of 1777, the Continental Army was dying at Valley Forge.Not in battle. In the cold, the hunger, the disease. Men wi
Dying Daily: Seneca on Learning to Die
Dying Daily: Seneca on Learning to Die Jun 29, 2026 274 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.“He who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.”— Seneca, Moral LettersMuch of fear is fear of losing. Losing comfort. Losing status. Losing strength.Losing the familiar structure of the life you have arranged and quietly begun to m
Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on Being Incorruptible | Dying Every Day
Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on Being Incorruptible | Dying Every Day Jun 25, 2026 614 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 152.There is a man almost no one talks about anymore, and a small detail in his story that is hard to forget once you have noticed it.His name was Cato—Cato the Younger. He lived in the final decades of the Roman Republic, when the whole system was rotting
Dying Daily: "You Decide What it Means" | Dying Every Day
Dying Daily: "You Decide What it Means" | Dying Every Day Jun 17, 2026 515 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.In today’s episode of Dying Daily, an occasional and much more casual series on the podcast, we sit with a question that most of us already know the answer to but haven’t done anything about: Who (and what) are we taking for granted?We’ve all been
Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on Becoming Whole | Dying Every Day
Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on Becoming Whole | Dying Every Day Jun 10, 2026 647 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 151.The Meditations are usually read as the record of a man who had mastered his philosophy—reminders to himself to stay on the path he had already found. That reading is not wrong. But it is incomplete. What Marcus does across these pages, again and again
Day 150: Stoicism and CBT on Training the Mind | Dying Every Day
Day 150: Stoicism and CBT on Training the Mind | Dying Every Day Jun 3, 2026 649 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 150.“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by the opinions about the things: for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have seemed so to Socrates.”  — Epictetus, EnchiridionEpictetus is not making a philosophical argum
Day 149: Plato's Cave and the Cost of Ignorance | Dying Every Day
Day 149: Plato's Cave and the Cost of Ignorance | Dying Every Day May 30, 2026 891 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 149.“All men want to live happily, but when it comes to seeing clearly what makes life happy, they are in the dark. Achieving a happy life is so challenging that the more desperately one pursues it, the more elusive it becomes.”  — Seneca, On the Happy Lif
Day 148: In Defense of the Examined Life | Dying Every Day
Day 148: In Defense of the Examined Life | Dying Every Day May 27, 2026 742 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 148.In 399 BC, a jury of five hundred Athenian citizens voted to convict Socrates of impiety and corrupting the youth. They were now deciding his penalty. The implicit offer was simple: stop asking questions, go into exile, live quietly, and stop examining
Dying Daily: Two Paradoxes, One Truth | Dying Every Day
Dying Daily: Two Paradoxes, One Truth | Dying Every Day May 23, 2026 662 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.One Stoic text that doesn’t get nearly enough attention is Cicero’s Stoic Paradoxes—six ideas that seem like contradictions until you understand what the Stoics actually mean. In this Dying Daily, we sit with one of them: the claim that virtue alon

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