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Episode 3606:

Ryan Holiday explores how anxiety, often invisible and normalized, drains our lives more than any luxury ever could. With wisdom from Stoic philosophers, he reframes anxiety as a habit we can unlearn, freeing ourselves to reclaim peace, presence, and perspective.

Read along with the original article(s) here: https://ryanholiday.net/this-is-my-most-expensive-habit/

Quotes to ponder:

"Anxiety turns the hypothetical into the actual. It drags us into a future that doesn’t yet exist and forces us to live out every worst-case scenario in vivid detail."

"Today, I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions, not outside."

"It’s not events that upset us but our opinions about them."

Episode references:

The Daily Stoic Podcast: https://dailystoic.com/podcast/

Epictetus' Discourses and Enchiridion: https://www.amazon.com/Discourses-Epictetus-Handbook-Oxford-Classics/dp/0199595186

Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic: https://www.amazon.com/Letters-Stoic-Penguin-Classics/dp/0140442103

Meditations by Marcus Aurelius: https://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Classics-Marcus-Aurelius/dp/0140449337

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