How To Actually Be Happier In 2024 (According to the Stoics)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มิ.ย. 2024
- Stoicism is a practical philosophy with the aim of living a meaningful life, and becoming one’s best self.
The Stoics believed in living a virtuous life, one with the potential to bring us personal happiness and fulfillment. And that’s one of the reasons a person may choose to live after their fashion. After all, what good is philosophy if it doesn’t ultimately bring us happiness? But in Stoic philosophy, it’s the pursuit of virtue and good character that allows us to get there. For the Stoic, the pursuit of virtue is the pursuit of happiness. If we can live virtuously, a good life will follow.
“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.” - Seneca, Letters from a Stoic
In this video Ryan Holiday shares some Stoic principles that can help us become better, happier people.
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1) Focus on what you control
2) Do good to others
3) Do less of unnecessary things and more of essential things
4) Be grateful
5) Don't seek external approval nor admiration
6) Challenge yourself
7) Laugh
8) Accept things as they are
9) Realize: you have everything you need
10) Embrace adversity
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I would another one:
5) Stop consuming so much content
Thank you
The second point is actually: Do good to feel good. It’s not the same…
@@Psicokass Thanks for pointing it out so nobody gets confused. I decided to go with "do good to others" because Ryan was referring to Marcus Aurelius's words "The fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good." Which states that any good deeds you do are for the sake of making a positive impact on others and the world. "Do good to feel good" implies that your main motivation is feeling good about yourself instead of making the world a better place.
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius
When I'm frustrated by something outside of my control listen to these videos helps me move on.
Every time I find myself stressed about life, I come back to these videos. Your channel is always a great reminder to stay grounded in who you are, not just want you want from life. Thank you for your wisdom🙌🏽
Happiness is a choice!
The thoughts you focus on dictate the emotions you feel. Here is where free will kicks in, Take control of your focus and aim it wisely.
A person who is indifferent to pleasure, joy, as well as sorrow or pain, Is the true stoic!
Seems like a lot of people don't understand stoicism. Your videos are great. Marcus Aurelius was wise.
The least stoic part about Ryan’s videos is the comment section lol
Stoicism is better understood as that meme of the dog sitting amidst a burning house saying "this is fine"
@@nevertellmethaoddz8581It is what it is, we could atleast hope that they learn a thing😊
@@TheDarkOne9942It is, but with reason and rational thoughts. The mindset of "It's fine" isn't gonna last long if it's just a facade, stoicsm wants you to be fine inside that'll make you fine outside.
@@CaraMyBeloved No, it wants you to pretend everything is fine.
Dont chase happiness.
Search for meaning, find love.
true and happines will be a natural response to that.
Money? I have enough. I could live with less and I don't need, (or want), more. Life is good.
others do everything in their power to gain more money and hopefully live a happy life in the future. I reduced my work to 80% to live a happy life now. 😂
Watching this reminded me of things I did during 2020. Reading Marcus Aurelius' Meditations helped me get through a year that destroyed a lot of people that I knew. It was realizing not everything can be controlled, but remembering that you can still find happiness in the things you can control.
Next year is going to be an election year everywhere. All signs point that things will get really ugly. I will need to retake Stoic philosophy for my own sake.
I recently started watching this channel and I'm glad I started watching it . I'm 18 and I hope and pray I find purpose in my life early.
Trying to be a better version of myself everyday. Helping people who suffer, when i can help. Accept whats outside of your control and focus on what is in your control. Enjoying the good things in life and try to change the bad things. Thats what my purporse in life looks like at the moment. ☺️
@@sorenlampe951 you are in the right direction.
NO has become my favorite word. Walk around the house saying "NO" and that practice alone will make it easier out in the real world when you're dealing with real people who are willing to take advantage of you.
Thank you Ryan 🙏🏼
Your advice has helped me a lot through 2023. I started off the year with a pretty poor attitude on life. I began watching your videos regularly, as well as listening to the works of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus on audible. With a stoic mindset, a willingness to fail, and a ton of hard work I’ve gone from being unemployed to landing my ideal job.
Thanks for this work that you do! Looking forward to a great 2024, wishing you and all my fellow stoics the best.
A person who is indifferent to pleasure, joy, as well as sorrow or pain, Is the true stoic!
“Immersion makes the man. This is the shortest path to clarity.” (From Stoic Mosquito by A. A. Socrates)
Thank you, Ryan. Your work (videos, books etc) is a great help to me. Your book The Obstacle is the Way changed my perspective on life for the better back in 2020 and I have been following you ever since. Thanks to you I discovered The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, which has also been a source of strength through troubled times. Your words have become a part of my way of thinking: "Never in a hurry, never worried, never desperate, never stopping short".
Thank you so much, for all you do, changing my life for the better each day!
Greetings from Brazil, Ryan, I love your thoughts and speeches of Stoicism. May we all have a excelente new year, it's all under our control; all what we need.
A person who is indifferent to pleasure, joy, as well as sorrow or pain, Is the true stoic!
Thanks Ryan holiday I really needed this video. It gave me more clearity and finally getting some relief after watching this video
I start read your book "Daily stoic" this 2024 i hope 2024 is my best year because i focus on self improvement and I'm gonna read more self improvement book in 2024
Love getting these videos during my day/ni ❤
I was busy reading On Anger and bumped into your channel. Very inspiring and empowering
Thanks Ryan! I don’t know if the stoicism will help me in the end, but your enthusiasm is enough stamina to overcome daily life.
Hope it will! Best of luck
Thank you for the daily content ryan
This learning has changed my life recently. Thank you!
I'm signed up for the challenge! Excited for it, can't wait,
A person who is indifferent to pleasure, joy, as well as sorrow or pain, Is the true stoic!
It keeps us in check, always
Even though I am not a really a stoic (Marcus Aurelius had an intluence on me, but I am more into Nietzsche and Sartre), I agree with every single thing, that you said. I would personally add one more thing from myself. If you want to do something, but your afraid, just do it. You want to ask someone out or ask for a pay rise. Go ahead. Even if you get rejected, doing what you really want gives happiness, that is worth the pain of potential rejection.
About principle number four, many misunderstand it. It's not about settling for less or accepting financial hardship. Rather, it's about aspiring for more without being bound by these desires, while expressing gratitude to God for the blessings already received. It's important to understand that God is willing to grant our wishes, as long as they don't impinge upon another's free will. This principle emphasizes the balance between ambition, detachment, and gratitude.
Number 5 is the hardest for sure, especially when you're facing mental health issues.
I have just found your channel. I feel like I talked to a very close friend. Thank you so much!
Would remove "the only way" from the video image.
Other than that, great summary of the stoic advice you shared already in so many videos with us. Wishing you all a happier 2024 🎉
Thank you!
thank you sir i've been through a lot of losses and failure this year i hope next year i'll be a happy strong 20 year old man
Strict with yourself, tolerant of others. Keep it in mind when the derps come riding along the disinformation train.
Brilliant content!
The Bulgarian Stoa greets you kindly and says "Thank you" for yet another inspiring video. Have a memorable year, Ryan, and keep up the good work!
Thank you for the video
Amazing video
You can’t be happy without being sad. No light without darkness. No sunny days without rainy days. No life without death.
Only being happy means you will experience sadness even harder. Right in the middle is where we have to try to be 🙌🙏
“First things first, I’m Aurelius, drop a bass n’ let the whole world feel it.”
• M. Aurelius, 166 in the year of our Lorde •
"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste much of it." - Seneca
"Wishing you a Christmas grounded in gratitude, reason, and inner strength." 🎄...
Thank you for the daily stoic email.. it’s wonderful. Happy new year to you and yours! 🙏🏼💚
Thanks
Yadayadayada!
Hi ,guys ! How to find music from this channel? I really like it!
they need to make a super like button for stuff like this
You haven’t gone deep enough within if you think you can control your thoughts and emotions.
I love your videos sir but please provide time stamps
Fantastic insights on achieving happiness in 2024 through Stoic wisdom! Which Stoic principle resonates with you the most and how do you plan to apply it in your life this year?
I can't be happier to have discovered your channel Ryan. Hope you have a wonderful time with your family in case you celebrate christmas. Greetings from Germany.
A person who is indifferent to pleasure, joy, as well as sorrow or pain, Is the true stoic!
The background music is really good .. anyone knows the name ??
Instead of watching pornography, I came here to watch Ryan's take on modern ancient philosophy.
Stoicism is repeated in Taoism the wu wei the art of caring less expecting less relying on less 👍most of life’s problems can be created by one’s own mind
The joke was funny!! 😂
What's up to us and what's not up to us is a pretty complex subject and not a black and white issue so it's hard to nail down. There's not even a consensus if we have free will or not. I guess for practical purposes we can pretend that we have free will but even then it's hard to know what's in our control and what's not. Thoughts just popped into our head involuntarily for example. Is surely doesn't seem that we have control of our thoughts. And if we do it seems limited.
Even if limited, that part is already enough. Sure random thoughts pop up, emotions could influence our thoughts, and experiences too. But in the end, it's up to us to continue that, it's up to us to act on that thought, to make something of that thought. And that is enough.
I had a tension pneumothorax laughing at Steve Harvey. A full lung collapse that pressed against my heart and almost killed me.
For those looking for a magic wand to become happier - don’t use these as direct rules.
First step is to get a different perspective on yourself and the world around you
If you're watching this video I think your real problem is that you're trying to be happy. Stop trying to be happy. Happiness is entirely unimportant and spending your life trying to be happy is a selfish waste of life and both ironically and deservingly, will more than likely result in you being unhappy. Instead focus on values that are actually important. If you don't know what that is, then that is the question to start with. What is actually important to you? What are you willing to struggle for? Focusing on whatever that is will yield a more fulfilling life, and maybe, happiness.
Get your Self Realization through Sahaja Yoga and all that the Stoics advise you becomes an automatic state, without any effort. When the Divine energy Kundalini awakens within you, the wonderful qualities described by the Stoics start manifesting inside us. Get it. It is a method free of change, very easy and pleasant. Peace, bliss and harmony will be felt inside.
I'm going to do a no spending year. Only buy what you need.
For any conversation about happiness to be productive you most first start with defining what you mean by happiness. What is the state of being that you call happiness.
Just a side note clarification: people HAVE in fact died from laughter, and some of these cases are relatively recent (1960s to 1980s) and well documented. Well, medically speaking it was either heart failure, or asphyxiation, or something related, that was provoked by an uncontrollable fit of laughter.
Ryan ive lived my whole life being a stoic without even knowing it..
Can someone explain this quote?
“To them that are sick of the jaundice, honey seems bitter; and to them that are bitten by a mad dog, the water terrible; and to children, a little ball seems a fine thing. And why then should I be angry? or do I think that error and false opinion is less powerful to make men transgress, than either choler, being immoderate and excessive, to cause the jaundice; or poison, to cause rage?”
Meditations, the sixth book
“Try to want everything to happen the way that it will happen “
Bro I really like ur channel and have recommended to lots of friends as well and have contributed to ur subscription any way just wanted to tell u that ur only default is trying to prove that this Is right becoz he is wrong kind of arguments.... For example rich people and poor comparison, this will only add salt to wound , just don't follow the principle of putting this down so that this stands , just have a video that is concerntrated on constructive way .... Rest I really root for u bro
It seems like good advice, on the whole. I do have trouble with dividing things into what we control and what we don’t control, though, and it is this: both are relatively uncommon scenarios. Far more common are events that we INFLUENCE. Not with absolute certainty of outcome, as “control” suggests, but not with total ineffectualness either. We are neither all-powerful nor totally helpless, most of the time. Why subscribe to an artificial dichotomy?
Believe me you are not that influential
Ryan! Thank you for Keeping it Real-entlisly! (New Word for you, old word Relentness!)
HA! See you in the NYNYC
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The joke was pretty funny 😅😂
First, thanks for your content.
Second, I'm on a very bad financial situation right now and would love to read your books, could you donate it for me? 😊
My problem is I can’t determine what I can control and what I can’t.
I've laughed so hard i fell on the floor
Everything is relative including happiness and as far as wealth if you work at a fast food restaurant in America for minimum wage you are wealthier than 3/4 of the rest of the world but here in America you would be considered a loser for working a minimum wage job but it's all relative and it's mainly because our standard of living is so much more than most of the rest of the world so you see it's all relative anyway
The only thing that is real is the present moment and to live outside that is suffering....
Seems like life is just beat the clock.
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To the world stoics seem unfeeling and apathetic because we're so pre-occupied cultivating our own inner ones. It's beautiful to know that other people share the same recognition that happiness isn't cultivated by what we accumulate but by the way in which we conduct ourselves and construct our character. The antithesis of modern Western values.
Isn't that Statue of Seneca with hairs fake? I saw a wikipedia article saying that it's unknown and calling it Pseudo-Seneca
People believed that Marcus Aurelius was god incarnate, I believe Ryan Holiday is Marcus Aurelius reincarnated
"Laughter in the midst of despair" how you survive it
They are saying he drank too much and that’s what killed him.
She’s say it was a bad joke in the context of modern society. You should hear some of my dad’s jokes. Lady doesn’t know what she’s speaking to, no offense
My goals for 2024…
Watch much less news.
More time in the gym.
7) Laugh. Which podcast is that with the blonde gal? She's funny.
Great Content man. I love your Videos. If you really try to embody stoicism and not only talk about it, trust me… your quality of life will be so much higher
How is this different than Buddhism?
aww i wanted to be happier in 2025... i guess ill wait!
The only way to fill that void is through Jesus.
Slow down Junior
... fewer commitments, not "less".
I accidently am following most of these things. But, I don't feel happy. I don't look like a happy person. But I am content.
Maybe contentment is what you need not hapiness.
I don't know guys please help me.
Actually Stoicism is not about happiness, I think Ryan Holiday frames it in this way to adress a broader audience.
Stoicism is the rejection of pleasure / happiness as ultimate sources of fulfillment; instead, it emphasizes the cultivation of inner virtues to achieve Eudaimonia (human flourishing / fullfilment)
Maybe it could be helpful for you reading the stoic books itself instead of watching TH-cam videos about it as the key message in most videos does not capture the key essence of the stoic school of thought.
Eat more mushrooms. Happiness happens
I understand that you need to sell your products and I think its even good that you talk about them in EVERY video. But maybe just don't do it twice per video ? It's too much.
That seems to be out of your control 😂
@@MVCvevasI haha, you could be right about that, but maybe editors will see and tone it down just a little bit :)
Want the things happen as they happen, be in sync with Nature in 2024.
$100 to do the challenge? bit of a joke as we don't even know what it is
eat sardines. your life will be better. i promise.
Don't do it!
Short answer: you can't.
I’m debating if i should still watch lol
These videos do not help man...just short term motivation 🥲
@@Doe3Love8 Watch it, anyway, this youtuber is good. Though, like all stoic phylosophy, you'll end up feeling like you'd be better off being a rock, detached from everything, even yourself.
@@youronlygamer9069 Sometimes, I feel that. Other times, they're helpful. Its a russian rullette kinda thing.
If you can't be happy with what you have you'll never be happy with what you don't have 🗿💨
Stoicism is basically another ponzi.
Thanks Jerry Seinfeld
why are you so arogant and why you move your hands like that who you think you are man ? you are just a youtuber thats all