Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for November 8th, “Actors In A Play”. “Remember that you are an actor in a play, playing a character according to the will of the playwright—if a short play, then it’s short; if long, long. If he wishes you to play the beggar, play even

The Daily Stoic for November 7th, “How To Be Powerful”. “Don’t trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely, your judgments about the things that you control and don’t control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that

The Daily Stoic for November 6th, “Someone Else Is Spinning The Thread” (Picture courtesy of Sam Lehman). “If the breaking day sees someone proud, The ending day sees them brought low. No one should put too much trust in triumph, No one should give up hope of trials improving. Clotho

The Daily Stoic for November 5th, “A Higher Power”. “This is the very thing which makes up the virtue of the happy person and a well-flowing life—when the affairs of life are in every way tuned to the harmony between the individual divine spirit and the will of the

The Daily Stoic for November 4th, “Not Good, Nor Bad”. “There is no evil in things changing, just as there is no good in persisting in a new state.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.42 The other day, I mentioned how signing in to Facebook to ask for permission for using

The Daily Stoic for November 3rd, “Following The Doctor’s Orders”. Just as we commonly hear people say the doctor prescribed someone particular riding exercises, or ice baths, or walking without shoes, we should in the same way say that nature prescribed someone to be diseased, or disabled, or to