Your Saturday Stoic Review — Week of April 29 - May 5
In case you missed the exciting news earlier this week … the much-anticipated third book in Ryan's Holiday's Stoic Virtues series is officially available for preorder! It's called Right Thing Right Now: Good Values. Good Character. Good Deeds. and is a powerful argument for the Stoic virtue of justice and the necessity of doing what's right — even when it isn't easy. We have a bunch of cool preorder bonuses available at The Daily Stoic Store, PLUS exclusive signed and numbered first-edition copies of the book. Head over to https://dailystoic.com/justice/ to learn more and grab your copy TODAY!
PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
Today, when we think of justice, we think of politics, we think of "our rights," we think of the legal system. And we love to debate the meaning of justice—what it is, who it's for, and how it's accomplished. For too many of us justice is some abstract notion that happens outside of us, away from our control and influence. But justice occurs in each of our lives every day. Not only in the big moments, but small ones, too.
In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube Channel, Ryan Holiday shares some Stoic advice for (inevitably) handling rude people, such as setting better boundaries, expanding your perspective, and focusing on what you control:
"We have the power to not think about it, to tune it out, to focus on what really matter, to try to put our energy and our intention on where we can make a difference, where we do have control. And if other people want to be concerned with that, if other people want to be riled up or have opinions about that, leave it to them. Meanwhile, you let it float on by like the clouds and you stick with what's up to you."
In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Mark Manson on the problems of academic philosophy, building your Stoic toolbox, and the dichotomy of taking action:
"If you do something, it changes the world, and if you don't do something, it changes the world…There's going to be some degree of good and evil in each direction you take, and you just hope to pick the one with more good in it."
As author Mark Manson mentions above, your actions directly impacts the world around you. That's why, for the ancients, everything worth pursuing in life flowed from a strong sense of justice—or one's commitment to doing the right thing, no matter how difficult.
This is one of the core ideas in Right Thing Right Now, the exciting third installment in Ryan Holiday's Stoic Virtues series…
Justice, as we've mentioned before, was the most important virtue for the Stoics. In fact, the Stoics were clear that justice, doing what was right, was the whole point of this philosophy. Because how could you be courageous in the pursuit of evil? What was the meaning of discipline if it led to selfish, destructive goals?
A Stoic sees the world clearly…but also sees clearly what the world can be. And then they are brave, and strategic enough to help bring it into reality. What that looks like, how we can impact the world for the better, and why that matters, is what Right Thing, Right Nowis all about.
Preordering makes a huge difference for authors (and bookstores) as they try to get a book off the ground. So the Daily Stoic team put together a bunch of exciting bonuses to make preordering worth your while—a live Q&A session with Ryan (hosted by someone cool), signed and numbered pages from the original manuscript, a philosopher's dinner at the Painted Porch, and more.
You can learn about all the bonuses, and how to redeem them if you ordered the book from a participating retailer, over at dailystoic.com/justice.
But wait! One more cool thing we're doing.
At the Daily Stoic Store, we have numbered first-edition copies signed by Ryan Holiday that you can't get anywhere else. And if you want an unsigned copy of the book, we have those too—$3 cheaper than Amazon, by the way. Head over to dailystoic.com/justice and grab your copy of Right Thing, Right Now TODAY!
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