Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

The Daily Stoic for June 12th. “A Trained Mind Is Better Than Any Script” “In this way you must understand how laughable it is to say, ‘Tell me what to do!’ What advice could I possibly give? No, a far better request is, ‘Train my mind to adapt to any

The Daily Stoic for June 11th. “Just Don’t Make Things Worse”. “How much more harmful are the consequences of anger and grief than the circumstances that aroused them in us!” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.8 It’s true that when something goes wrong, getting angry is one of

The Daily Stoic for June 10th. “You Can Do It”. “If you find something very difficult to achieve yourself, don’t imagine it impossible—for anything possible and proper for another person can be achieved as easily by you.” —MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 6.19 Success, failure, and the process of

The Daily Stoic for June 9th: “Solve Problems Early”. “There is no vice which lacks a defense, none that at the outset isn’t modest and easily intervened—but after this the trouble spreads widely. If you allow it to get started you won’t be able to control when

The Daily Stoic for June 8th. “Brick By Boring Brick”. “You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as far as possible—and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but no

The Daily Stoic for June 7th. “Finding The Right Mentors” “We like to say that we don’t get to choose our parents, that they were given by chance—yet we can truly choose whose children we’d like to be.” —SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 15.3a I