HeyJaredStoic Journal
Exploring timeless Stoic philosophy for modern life, offering practical insights on resilience, mindfulness, and living with purpose.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 10
- Latest publication
- Sep 23, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Aug 21, 2026
Latest issues
The Cost of Being Easy to Read (opens the original)
Read excerpt
There’s a version of me from a few years back who thought total transparency was the fix.I’d spent years being unreadable, flat face, controlled voice, nothing leaking out. Once I figured out that was suppression and not strength, I swung hard the other way. I started saying everything. Every reaction, out loud, immediately. Every mood, visible on my face within seconds. I called it honesty. I called it growth. I told people it was the healthier version of me.It wasn’t.It was just a different ki
The Difference Between Being Calm and Being Numb (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="768" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!745R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5b6d4140-29c4-471f-8ab9-ef2133f26c93_1376x768.jpe
The Difference Between Being Calm and Being Numb (opens the original)
Read excerpt
I want to start with a confession. For the first two years I studied this philosophy, I was doing it wrong.I thought the goal was to feel less. Someone would say something cutting, and I’d flatten my face and think, a Stoic wouldn’t react. Something would go wrong at work, and I’d swallow the frustration whole and call it resilience. I got quieter. Harder to read. I mistook this for progress.It wasn’t. It was a slow disconnection from my own life, and I’d dressed it up in a toga and called it ph
The 5 Questions to Ask Before You Say Yes (opens the original)
Read excerpt
<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="768" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zezc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc8d21dae-2941-479f-9981-5f323e8c3c49_1376x768.png"
What Self Respect Looks Like When Nobody Is Watching (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Self respect is easy to talk about when life is visible. It is easy to keep your standards when people are watching, when your effort will be noticed, when your discipline has an audience, or when doing the right thing also makes you look like the kind of person you want others to admire. The more revealing moments happen when none of that is present.Nobody knows whether you kept the promise you made to yourself that morning. Nobody sees whether you returned to the work after becoming distracted
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.