The Daily Stoic It Picks You Up. It Puts You Down. A Hundred Times A Day. | Cultivate Indifference
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Feb 26, 2026 A reflection on how emotions lift and sink us repeatedly and why we should resist being ruled by passions. A look at Stoic categories that label virtue, vice, and indifferent externals. A discussion of debates over preferred indifferents like wealth. Practical tips on readiness, endurance, and adjusting to hardship.
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Passions Throw Us Around Like Waves
- Passions repeatedly lift and crush us, causing exhaustion and loss of agency.
- Ryan Holiday likens emotions to waves that spin us around, urging us to stand like a rock unmoved by the sea.
HelloFresh Saved Dinner After A Trip
- Ryan Holiday describes coming home to HelloFresh meals after a trip as a small relief and practical convenience.
- He details features: 100+ weekly recipes, portion control, seasonal produce, and a Zwilling knife offer on the third box.
Stoic Third Category Explains What Matters
- Stoics classify things as good (virtue), bad (vice), or indifferent (wealth, health, life, death).
- Ryan cites Epictetus and Seneca to show many desired or avoided things lie beyond our control and are therefore indifferent.
