Have You Read The Books? | Test Your Impressions

<p>We say we want to get better. We say we want to learn about this or that. We say we want to make a change. We say we’ve decided to get serious.</p><p>But is this true?</p><p>The Stoics had an expression: <em>Acta non verba.</em> Deeds not words.</p><p>So it’s ironic that most of us say we want to make these improvements, but we can’t or won’t do the bare minimum.</p><p>---</p><p>And in today's Daily Stoic Journal excerpt reading, Ryan discusses the importance of putting everything to the test in the same way that an assayer would test metals.</p><p>📔 Preorder your copy of <em>The Daily Dad: 366 Meditations on Parenting, Love and Raising Great Kids </em>and get <a href="https://www.dailydadbook.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">lots of preorder bonuses</a>!</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">YouTube</a>, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TikTok</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Facebook</a></p><p>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.</p>