Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for December 4th, “You Don’t Own That”. “Anything that can be prevented, taken away, or coerced is not a person’s own—but those things that can’t be blocked are their own.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.24.3 The other day, I was reading about nomads

The Daily Stoic for December 3rd, “The Philosopher Is An Artisan Of Life And Death”. “Philosophy does not claim to get a person any external possession. To do so would be beyond its field. As wood is to the carpenter, bronze to the sculptor, so our own lives are the

The Daily Stoic for December 2nd, “Don’t Mind Me, I’m Only Dying”. “Let each thing you would do, say or intend be like that of a dying person.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.11.1 “What would you do if you found out tomorrow that you had cancer?” That’

The Daily Stoic for December 1st, “Pretend Today Is The End”. “Let us prepare our minds as if we’d come to the very end of life. Let us postpone nothing. Let us balance life’s books each day. . . . The one who puts the finishing touches on their life each

The Daily Stoic for November 30th, “Follow The Logos”. “The person who follows reason in all things will have both leisure and a readiness to act—they are at once both cheerful and self-composed.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 10.12b The logos. The stoics believed there was a powerful force governing

The Daily Stoic for November 29th, “You Are Going To Be Ok”. “Don’t lament this and don’t get agitated.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 7.43 Have you ever gone to bed thinking that there was something wrong? Nothing concrete that you can identify in your mind. But there it