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Dying Every Day is a newsletter and podcast about mortality, wisdom, discipline, attention, Stoicism, and the art of living. This is a place for meditations for mortals—reflections for people trying to live the Stoic virtues of wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice in the time they have been given.
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- Today3 min
The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily
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 increasingly difficult to distinguish from what we actually observed. Epictetus makes a demanding claim about that relationship. [...]------📺 DYING EVERY DAY (ON YOUTUBE):https://www.youtube.com/@MeditationsforMortals📮 DYING EVERY DAY (ON SUBSTACK):https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe📷 DYING EVERY DAY (ON INSTAGRAM):https://www.instagram.com/dyingeveryday.co/ABOUT US:Dying Every Day is a podcast and newsletter for mortals and curious minds. Become a member to support the project and gain access to The School for Mortals and its exclusive courses on the art of living.
- 4 days ago16 min
Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty
📮 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 you need to know before you act? You’ll never know enough to be certain. But you can know enough to act with care. An oracle once called Socrates the wisest man alive. He spent years trying to prove it wrong. [...]
- 1 weeks ago4 min
The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily
📮 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 to its proper place at the far edge of consciousness, well away from the ordinary business of the day. We have even developed extraordinary technology to support this avoidance. The busyness, the noise, the endless scroll—all of it serves, among other things, to keep the biggest fact about human existence just below the level of genuine awareness. The Stoics thought this was exactly backward. [...]
- 1 weeks ago14 min
Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions
📮 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 and love, ambition and regret, attention and death, and so on. Some have occupied philosophers for thousands of years. Others show up on an ordinary Tuesday afternoon when something goes wrong, and we suddenly realize we have no idea what to do.And often, they’re the same questions.Every so often, I want to take one of them and spend some time thinking it through. Sometimes the questions come from listeners. I’ve set up an email address—askamortal@dyingeveryday.com—where you can send whatever you’ve been wrestling with (you can remain anonymous or not). [...]
- 2 weeks ago46 min
Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day
📮 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 simple but increasingly important idea: people need more than information. They need formation.We talk about standards, challenge, physical training, responsibility, and the role parents, teachers, coaches, and mentors play in helping young people develop character, judgment, resilience, and purpose.We also explore what can happen when adults remove too much difficulty from a young person’s life—and why meaningful struggle, properly understood, can be part of learning how to live well.Shane Trotter’s Work:Shane writes Setting the Bar on Substack, where he explores education, parenting, character, discipline, and human development through philosophy, psychology, and practical experience.His new course, Carry the Fire, is designed to help fathers, coaches, and mentors prepare young men to become capable, responsible adults. The program emphasizes mentorship, meaningful challenge, physical training, self-mastery, reflection, and formation.The emphasis is not simply on teaching lessons. It is on becoming the kind of person capable of carrying something forward.Shane is also the author of Setting the Bar: Preparing Our Kids to Thrive in an Era of Distraction, Dependency, and Entitlement, a thoughtful examination of what young people need in order to flourish in an age of distraction, overprotection, and slipping standards.If you are a parent, teacher, coach, or mentor—or simply someone interested in how character is formed—I highly recommend Shane’s work. [...]
- 2 weeks ago4 min
"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily
📮 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 to its proper place at the far edge of consciousness, well away from the ordinary business of the day. We have even developed extraordinary technology to support this avoidance. The busyness, the noise, the endless scroll—all of it serves, among other things, to keep the biggest fact about human existence just below the level of genuine awareness. The Stoics thought this was exactly backward. [...]
- 3 weeks ago6 min
"The Art of Paying Attention" | Letters from a Mortal
📮 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 of a contemplation and an invitation to step away from the noise at least for a few minutes.They are written mostly for audio, intended for a time of stillness.There is nothing you need to memorize.Nothing you need to accomplish. Simply notice what stays with you. [...]
- 4 weeks ago5 min
The Architecture of a Good Life | Dying Daily
📮 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 life genuinely good? Not good in someone else’s estimation. Not good according to the prevailing standards of the culture. Genuinely, deeply, lastingly good—the kind of good that holds up under examination, that you would choose again at the end, that constitutes something worth having been.His answer was not what most people expect. [...]
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