## Metadata - Author: [[Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman]] - Full Title: The Daily Stoic - Category: #books ## Highlights - “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own . . .” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.5.4–5 ([Location 166](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=166)) - Tags: [[blue]] - The single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. ([Location 172](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=172)) - If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not only be happier, we will have a distinct advantage over other people who fail to realize they are fighting an unwinnable battle. ([Location 180](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=180)) - We should not trust the masses who say only the free can be educated, but rather the lovers of wisdom who say that only the educated are free.” —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.1.21–23a ([Location 184](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=184)) - Tags: [[blue]] - “Throw out your conceited opinions, for it is impossible for a person to begin to learn what he thinks he already knows.” ([Location 1587](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=1587)) - Tags: [[pink]] - Emerson put it well: “Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.” ([Location 1596](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=1596)) - There is a poem by Philip Levine titled “He Would Never Use One Word Where None Would Do.” ([Location 1622](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=1622)) - At the end of your time on this planet, what expertise is going to be more valuable—your understanding of matters of living and dying, or your knowledge of the ’87 Bears? Which will help your children more—your insight into happiness and meaning, or that you followed breaking political news every day for thirty years? ([Location 1638](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=1638)) - Tags: [[favorite]] - “No man steps in the same river twice.” ([Location 4573](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B01HNJIJB2&location=4573)) - Tags: [[favorite]]