Command yourself. Get your body under control. Eliminate vices that weaken you. Be useful to others. Build skills that last—no matter what the world throws at you. Make a difference where you can. Be the savior you'd have otherwise waited around for.
The 2026 Daily Stoic New Year, New You Challenge is designed to help you fulfill your potential and realize the best version of yourself. It's one actionable challenge per day for three weeks, built around Stoicism's most time-tested, effective, and actionable wisdom.
Shallowness and cruelty and stupidity may be rampant, but we must resist it—resist it without bitterness or despair—by being bright lights in a dark time.
Over on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan speaks with Olivia Nuzzi about her new book, American Canto, as well as what it really means to get through dishonor honorably.
"I can look back and see the suspension of certain critical faculties. And that makes sense to me—but it doesn't make sense."
These 3 Rules Will Make or Break Your 2026 | Jesse Itzler
Most people will enter 2026 hoping life just gets better. Jesse Itzler knows that's not how real change happens. In today's episode, Jesse breaks down the three simple rules he follows every year to guarantee it doesn't slip by.
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
"You don't always have to look ahead for the bump in the road. Your anticipating the bump won't make the bump disappear. It'll still be there. You're afraid you won't be prepared to deal with it if you don't anticipate it, but you will. Your adrenalin kicks in. You deal with it. And meanwhile, you've been happy. Which gives you more strength to deal with it."
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