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Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

Reverence And Justice

Reverence And Justice

The Daily Stoic for October 10th, “Reverence And Justice”. “Leave the past behind, let the grand design take care of the future, and instead only rightly guide the present to reverence and justice. Reverence so that you’ll love what you’ve been allotted, for nature brought you both to

Set The Standards And Use Them

Set The Standards And Use Them

The Daily Stoic for October 9th, “Set The Standards And Use Them”. “When the standards have been set, things are tested and weighed. And the work of philosophy is just this, to examine and uphold the standards, but the work of a truly good person is in using those standards

A Higher Pleasure

A Higher Pleasure

The Daily Stoic for October 8th, “A Higher Pleasure”. “Yes, getting your wish would have been so nice. But isn’t that exactly why pleasure trips us up? Instead, see if these things might be even nicer—a great soul, freedom, honesty, kindness, saintliness. For there is nothing so pleasing

Looking Out For Each Other

Looking Out For Each Other

The Daily Stoic for October 6th, “Looking Out For Each Other”. “It’s in keeping with Nature to show our friends affection and to celebrate their advancement, as if it were our very own. For if we don’t do this, virtue, which is strengthened only by exercising our perceptions,

A Selfish Reason To Be Good

A Selfish Reason To Be Good

The Daily Stoic for October 7th, “A Selfish Reason To Be Good”. “The person who does wrong, does wrong to themselves. The unjust person is unjust to themselves—making themselves evil.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.4 Today’s stoic meditation is all about “not doing wrong things” because “when we

The Nomad List Of Shame 2018

The Nomad List Of Shame 2018

Even though the digital nomad lifestyle is growing in popularity, the world has yet to adapt to it. With the Nomad List Of Shame, I want to highlight companies, organizations and individuals that make the lives of nomads harder, in the hopes of generating awareness and, perhaps eventually, making things

Words Can’t Be Unsaid

Words Can’t Be Unsaid

The Daily Stoic for October 5th, “Words Can’t Be Unsaid”. “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” —ZENO, QUOTED IN DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.1.26 “Silence is golden”. This topic has been discussed in the daily stoic a lot, on “Silence