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category. I started off doing this work years ago saying, I want to find the secret of happiness. And that's wrong because you can't be happy, but you can be as happier, which is an Aristotelian notion as opposed to a Platonic notion. You can get happier. And the goal is putting yourself, your life on a jagged, messy path toward happiness. Epictetus said something similar that

He was riffing on Socrates when he said, just as one person delights in improving his farm and another his horse, I delight in attending to my own improvement day by day. That's the path to a good life. Getting a little better every day. A little more skill, a little wiser, a little kinder, a little gentler, more disciplined, a little happier. You don't think of these things as something you arrive at in a flash of insight or something, the finish line. No, they are things you accumulate day by day, action by action, as Marcus Aurelius put it, over the course of a lifetime. In fact, it was Gino who said that well-being is realized by small steps, but it is no small thing. And we actually just relaunched our challenge built around this very idea, the Daily Stoic Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge. It's a step-by-step guide for helping you make some daily incremental changes that have long-term positive impact. Six weeks of challenges. Like, we are going to challenge you. We're going to push you to get outside your comfort zone. but the point is to make you better, to make your life better, to get you closer day by day to being happier, to being the person you want to be, to be the person you know you can be and you can start on that path today. I'd love to have you join us in the Daily Stoic Habits for Success Habits for Happiness Challenge. You can sign up right now at dailystoic.com slash habits and if you join us in Daily Stoic Life you get this challenge and all our challenges for free so I will see you there.

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