Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for July 5th. “No One Said It’d Be Easy”. “Good people will do what they find honorable to do, even if it requires hard work; they’ll do it even if it causes them injury; they’ll do it even if it will bring danger. Again,

The Daily Stoic for July 4th, “Protect the flame”. “Protect your own good in all that you do, and as concerns everything else take what is given as far as you can make reasoned use of it. If you don’t, you’ll be unlucky, prone to failure, hindered and

The Daily Stoic for July 3rd. “Turn HAVE TO into GET TO”. “The task of a philosopher: we should bring our will into harmony with whatever happens, so that nothing happens against our will and nothing that we wish for fails to happen.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.14.7 So today’

The Daily Stoic for July 2nd. “On Duty And Circumstance”. “Never shirk the proper dispatch of your duty, no matter if you are freezing or hot, groggy or well-rested, vilified or praised, not even if dying or pressed by other demands. Even dying is one of the important assignments of

The Daily Stoic for July 1st. “Do Your Job”. “Whatever anyone does or says, for my part I’m bound to the good. In the same way an emerald or gold or purple might always proclaim: ‘whatever anyone does or says, I must be what I am and show my

The Daily Stoic for June 30th. “The Obstacle Is The Way”. “While it’s true that someone can impede our actions, they can’t impede our intentions and our attitudes, which have the power of being conditional and adaptable. For the mind adapts and converts any obstacle to its action