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Ignacio Nieto Carvajal

Steady Your Impulses

Steady Your Impulses

The Daily Stoic for February the 5th: “Steady Your Impulses”. “Think of the manic people in your life. Not the ones suffering from an unfortunate disorder, but the ones whose lives and choices are in disorder. Everything is soaring highs or crushing lows; the day is either amazing or awful.

What To Do With A Failed Business Or Product

What To Do With A Failed Business Or Product

If there’s a skill I have mastered during the years, it’s failing. Since I became an entrepreneur, I have embarked on many different projects. Some of them have been successful, but most of them failed. As a result, I’ve had to decide what to do with quite

On Being Invincible

On Being Invincible

The Daily Stoic for February the 4th: “On being invincible”. “Who then is invincible? The one who cannot be upset by anything outside their reasoned choice.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 1.18.21 The term Prohairesis, first introduced by Aristotle, became a fundamental concept of the Stoic philosophy thanks to Epictetus. According

The Source Of Your Anxiety

The Source Of Your Anxiety

The Daily Stoic for February the 3rd: “The source of your anxiety”. “When I see an anxious person, I ask myself, what do they want? For if a person wasn’t wanting something outside of their own control, why would they be stricken by anxiety?” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.13.1

A Proper Frame Of Mind

A Proper Frame Of Mind

The Daily Stoic for today, February the 2nd: “A Proper Frame Of Mind”: “Frame your thoughts like this—you are an old person, you won’t let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you’ll stop complaining about your

For the Hot-Headed Man

For the Hot-Headed Man

The Daily Stoic for today, February the 1st. “For the hot-headed man”. “Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on—it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to

Philosophy As Medicine Of The Soul

Philosophy As Medicine Of The Soul

The Daily Stoic for the last day of January: “Philosophy as medicine of the soul”… “Don’t return to philosophy as a task-master, but as patients seek out relief in a treatment of sore eyes, or a dressing for a burn, or from an ointment. Regarding it this way, you’