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Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)

Dying Every Day (Stoicism in a Year)

Perennial Leader Project 161 Episodes Oct 12, 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.

Episodes

What Deserves Your Attention | William James and the Stoics
What Deserves Your Attention | William James and the Stoics Oct 12, 2026 202 You can end a busy day having focused intensely on things you would never have chosen as the center of your life. The messages were answered. The small dispute got another hour. The person you meant to call has gone to bed.Now the day’s accomplishments look different beside what they displaced.This is a different problem from distraction. [...]------📺 DYING EVERY DAY (ON YOUTUBE):https://
Remember Death. Return to Life. | Dying Every Day
Remember Death. Return to Life. | Dying Every Day Oct 8, 2026 400 Memento mori is a way to bring the important things back into the present. Through Montaigne and Seneca, this episode explores how remembering mortality can loosen our attachment to approval, interrupt postponement, and make room for a more deliberate life.A simple evening practice: name what you are glad you did, notice what you regret delaying, and make one small repair. Dying Every Day
The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily
The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily Oct 5, 2026 216 A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relationship. By the time you put the phone down, you are responding to a conversation that has not happened.We live among events and our interpretations of them. The interpretations help us navigate. They also become increasing
Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty
Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty Oct 1, 2026 976 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158.You’ve read the advice. You’ve asked the people you trust. And you’re still looking.Somewhere along the way, the search for information became a search for assurance. One asks the world a question. The other asks the world for a promise.So how much do
The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily
The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily Sep 28, 2026 256 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. Not with deliberate effort.Simply by staying busy enough that it never quite surfaces. By treating awareness of death as something to manage—acknowledged briefly when unavoidable, then returned
Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions
Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions Sep 24, 2026 899 📮 Check out my new course, Resist and Persist: https://perennial.substack.com/p/introducing-resist-and-persistWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Mortal Questions.I want to try something new here on Dying Every Day. I’m calling it Mortal Questions.The idea is pretty simple. There are certain questions that seem to follow us through life—questions about happiness and suffering, work a
Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day
Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day Sep 17, 2026 2769 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 157.What does it take to become strong enough to carry responsibility well?In this episode, I speak with writer, coach, and author Shane Trotter about discipline, mentorship, responsibility, and the work of character.Much of Shane’s work centers on a simp
"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily
"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily Sep 15, 2026 272 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. Not with deliberate effort.Simply by staying busy enough that it never quite surfaces. By treating awareness of death as something to manage—acknowledged briefly when unavoidable, then returned
"The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal
"The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal Sep 10, 2026 403 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Letters from a Mortal.Before we begin, a word about this edition of the podcast. Letters from a Mortal is meant to be experienced a little differently from the usual podcast episode.The pace is slower. There is more silence.These letters are meant to be more
The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily
The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily Sep 7, 2026 308 📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.Aristotle spent years trying to answer a question that most people never stop to ask. Not what makes people successful. Not what makes them comfortable or admired or free from obvious pain. Something harder and more interesting. What makes a human
Day 156: The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the Stoics Knew About Freedom
Day 156: The Unchosen Life—What Kierkegaard and the Stoics Knew About Freedom Sep 3, 2026 1091 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 156.Imagine a young man with every door open.He is talented, and he knows it. He could be a scholar—the mind is there. He could be an artist; people have told him so. He could go into business and probably do well, or travel, or fall in love, or devote him
Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing
Dying Daily: The Gap Between Knowing and Doing Aug 28, 2026 253 📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Dying Daily.The philosopher and the athlete are working on the same problem. The athlete knows that wanting to be fast is not the same as being fast. Between the desire and the capacity lies the only thing that actually closes the gap—the practice, repeated da

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