# Day 155: Resist and Persist - The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline | Dying Every Day

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Published: 2026-07-16T09:00:00+00:00
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📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 155. This week's episode is something a little different. Over the past few months, I've been building an audio course called "Resist and Persist: The Stoic Art of Self-Discipline." And I wanted you to hear the introduction. Mostly because the argument it makes stands on its own, and I think it's the most useful thing I've written this year: that if you've failed at self-discipline and everyone listening to this has, it's probably not a character flaw. It was a sequencing error. You were working on the right problem in the wrong order. [...] --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources: Perennial Meditations archive: https://perennial.substack.com/archive Listen to more podcasts: https://www.perennialleader.com/podcasts

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