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For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com. New episodes come out every day for free. Listen 1-week early on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and to all episodes ad-free, with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.

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12.03.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \|Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher King Marcus Aurelius was chosen by Emporer Hadrian to be his eventual successor. In 161, Aurelius took control of the Roman Empire along with his brother Verus. War and disease threatened Rome on all sides. Aurelius held his territory, but was ...
12.02.2023 Kate Flannery on the Rise and Fall of American Apparel (PT 1) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with author Kate Flannery on Dov Charney and their early journey at American Apparel, the evolution of feminism, imposter syndrome vs being qualified and the difference between quitting and getting ...
12.01.2023 Joy Even So (Part 2) \| Pretend Today Is The End On his way to work each day in Boston, John Adams would hear a man singing. As his great biographer David McCollough writes in John Adams, it was a beautiful, almost joyful song that inspired him as he headed to ...
11.30.2023 Don't Let Them Turn You Into This \| Ask DS In Book 7 of Meditations, Marcus writes to himself (as the Gregory Hays translation, which you can grab a special edition of here, has it): "Take care that you don't treat inhumanity as it treats human beings." What does that ...
11.29.2023 Do You Really Like This? People say they love learning. And sure, they pick up books and go to museums and watch documentaries, and yes, they sat through their college courses. But this is only superficial evidence of a true student. There’s a joke from ...
11.29.2023 Whitney Cummings on Finding Inspiration and Being Relentlessly Present (Pt 2) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with Whitney Cummings, comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast “Good for You". In part 2 of 2 they discuss having no sense of what ...
11.28.2023 The Only Revenge Worth Getting Unfortunately, it’s been happening for a long time: People doing horrible things to each other. Marcus Aurelius was betrayed. Seneca was exiled on trumped-up charges. There were Stoics who were cheated on. There were Stoics who were persecuted. Stoics who ...
11.27.2023 Here’s The Deal \| Balance The Books Of Life We got together with family. We reminded ourselves what was important. We enjoyed the bounties of the Earth. Perhaps when we took the rolls out of the oven we noted, as Marcus Aurelius did in Meditations, the way the bread ...
11.26.2023 Overcoming Adversity In Leadership Roles In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan talks with 150 Local Business Leaders and Marketing Directors who are Twins Brand Partners about Challenges we face, Overcoming adversity in leadership roles and work life balance. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: ...
11.25.2023 Whitney Cummings on Routines, Creating Great Art, and Addiction (Pt 1) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with Whitney Cummings, comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast “Good for You". In part 1 of 2 they discuss having no sense of what ...
11.24.2023 You Can Do Something About This \| Train To Let Go Of What’s Not Yours Marcus Aurelius would have recognized the feeling you feel right now. So would Seneca and Cato and many of the other Stoics. The Romans, like Americans, loved a good feast. They loved wine. They loved breaking bread with family. We ...
11.23.2023 It’s All A Gift \| Ask Ds It doesn’t seem that way of course. The economy is a mess, the government is dysfunctional, the virus is still there, screwing up plans and making us sick. People are annoying. People are frustrating. Your co-worker is a jerk. Your ...
11.22.2023 What Comes Next Matters Less It’s not that the Stoics didn’t love. It’s not that they didn’t like the nice stuff that they had or the jobs they had worked hard to earn. Of course, they liked these things and would have preferred to keep ...
11.22.2023 Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learning from the Past (Part 2) Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi The economics of a book being different than the media, How much do you internalize the tumult and danger around you as a journalist, Fundamentally journalism ...
11.21.2023 It’s Not Romantic. It’s Just Work. \|12 Ways Stoics Build Mental Strength And Resilience We have a false picture about how success happens. We often only see the results and almost never the process of things, so we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape, being wise—is impressive, and therefore ...
11.20.2023 Put All Of Your Energy Into This \| Practice Letting Go Amazon tells us that’s one of the most highlighted passages in the digital version of Stillness is the Key. It’s an idea that’s impossible to disentangle from Stoicism. Epictetus said there were things that were up to us and some ...
11.19.2023 Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 4: On Progress In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan presents an excerpt from one of the seminal texts of Stoicism, the Discourses of Epictetus, read by Michael Reid. As a series of lectures given by Epictetus that were written down by his pupil Arrian ...
11.18.2023 Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism (Part 1) Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi on mastery in learning the entire playbook so that you can throw it away, How the information makes us blind to the facts, Fundamentally journalism is ...
11.17.2023 How To Make It Good \| Judge Not, Lest… Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. At the height of his artistic powers, he was thrown in jail–an awful prison which contained the germs that later killed him. It was intolerance and tyranny, ...
11.16.2023 What Do You See? \| Ask Ds A man walks through a field of flowing grain, the grass bending low under its own weight. The wind blows softly on a cold day. He looks and sees a small bird sitting on a branch, the steam rising off ...
11.15.2023 This Is What Will Happen To Your Accomplishments Marcus Aurelius spent 14 years at war with the Marcomanni. It was a brutal, grinding campaign which he eventually won at great cost and risk. His victory was celebrated as a triumph, immortalized in a 97 foot tall marble tower ...
11.15.2023 Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 2) Ryan speaks with book athour & screenwriter Steven Pressfield on fewer possessions, superstition in memorabilia, the impact of working without any attachments to the outcome, and his new books The Daily Pressfield. Steven is an American author of historical fiction, ...
11.14.2023 You Can’t Deny This \|10 Stoic Tips For Being A Better Leader Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. Other Stoics knew better. Thrasea (whose story we tell in Lives of the Stoics) opposed him from the start. Agrippinus (another ...
11.14.2023 Listen Now: Six Trophies with Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion are back! And this time they’re combing through all the NBA news from the past week and handing out six pop culture-themed trophies to six basketball-related activities. Every week, superlatives will reign down on basketball ...
11.13.2023 It’s All In How You See It \| Judge Yourself Not Others It’s fascinating to think of all these different translators sitting down and seeing this same bit of writing and having such wildly different interpretations. How much each one was a reflection of their time and place, how much room there ...
11.12.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \| Epictetus the Free Man Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not simply a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond our control; he argues that we should accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. However, individuals are responsible for ...
11.11.2023 Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 1) Ryan speaks with book athour & screenwriter Steven Pressfield on fewer possessions, superstition in memorabilia, the impact of working without any attachments to the outcome, and his new books The Daily Pressfield. Steven is an American author of historical fiction, ...
11.10.2023 All Success Is A Lagging Indicator \| Always The Same From the outside looking in, author Philipp Meyer had the kind of success that is easy to not just be envious of, but angry about. His first two published novels, American Rust and The Son, were massive critical and commercial ...
11.09.2023 This is Why You Can’t Try To Avoid Criticism \| Ask DS Nobody wants to be criticized. It doesn’t feel good when people judge what you’ve done. We want the right people to like us, we want all people to like us. We want to be accepted, appreciated, and celebrated. So we ...
11.08.2023 Joy Even So (Part 1) John Adams' life was not an easy one. First, because it was just hard to be alive in the 18th century. It was hard to make dinner. It was hard to stay warm in the winter. It was hard to ...
11.08.2023 Adam Kinzinger On Doing The Unexpected And Freeing Ourselves From Fear Ryan speaks with Adam Kinzinger on losing the things in life that become normal to us, freeing ourselves from fear, his new book Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country, and putting his job on the line for ...
11.07.2023 This Is Where You Are \| Marcus Aurelius' 12 Fundamentals Of Great Leadership It would be wonderful to live in a time where people got along. It’d be better if the economy was roaring. It’d be nice if the political landscape wasn’t dominated by grifters and demagogues. And of course, who doesn’t wish ...
11.06.2023 Which Limits Do You Respect? \| The Real Power You Have When you’re tired, you stop. When you’re not feeling it, you put it off until tomorrow. When it’s hard, you make an excuse. You listen to that little voice inside you that lets you off the hook, that gives you ...
11.05.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \| Cato the Younger, Rome's Iron Man also known as Cato the Censor and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work ...
11.04.2023 Morgan Wade On Sticking To The Routine Ryan speaks with American country music singer Morgan Wade on physical and mental benefits to our routine, getting sober, ideas while walking, and knowing the vitcory in starting. Morgan Wade is a native of Floyd, Virginia. She began writing songs ...
11.03.2023 All The Stoics Were Kings \| Following The Doctor’s Orders Marcus Aurelius was a true philosopher king, but he wasn’t the first or the last amongst the Stoics. The first emperor, Octavian, studied under Athenodorus and Arius Didymus. Hadrian took classes from Epictetus and Antoninus was a kind of natural ...
11.02.2023 This Matters Way More Than The Details \| Ask DS There can be so much about the study of this philosophy that can be overwhelming that’s intimidating. When did Stoicism start? Where did it begin? What the hell is a Stoa Poikile?? Put aside that it focuses on some of ...
11.01.2023 It's The Dead's Day Yesterday was Halloween here in America, which is a fun holiday for children. It’s full of masks and candy and staying up late. In Mexico, however, today is the beginning of Día de los Muertos, a much more adult and ...
11.01.2023 Performance Anxiety & Yips With Eileen Canney Linnehan Ryan Speaks with Eileen Canney Linnehan on Yips, performance anxiety, and mental block on todays episode of the daily stoic podcast. Eileen Canney Linnehan was a star pitcher at Northwestern who suddenly could not throw to first base. Now she ...
10.31.2023 Don’t Be Scared By Things Like This \| 10 Stoic Parenting Tips You might think that the Stoics were above silly things like superstitions. After all, these were rational folks, serious people. Certainly, they wouldn’t believe in ghosts, right? They wouldn’t have time for something as juvenile as a ghost story, would ...
10.30.2023 A Measure Of Greatness \| Accepting What Is Not everyone thinks Marcus Aurelius was so great. And it’s true, his record is not unblemished: He fought in imperial wars. He didn’t stop the persecution of the Christians. His son was disturbed and unfit to succeed him. So can ...
10.29.2023 The Power Of Purpose Today, Ryan answers questions on purpose and stoic wisdom at Dr. Edith Egar's workshop. Dr. Eger’s story as a Holocaust survivor & work as a renowned therapist has impacted millions around the world. As someone who lived through unthinkable trauma, ...
10.28.2023 Adam Grant On Hidden Potential And Measuring Yourself Against Yourself Ryan speaks with organizational psychologist and book author Adam Grant on seeing things in the context of where they actually sit, learning to be pleased but not satisfied, current sports culture and his new book Hidden Potential: The Science of ...
10.27.2023 Rule The Empire Between Your Ears \| We Reap What We Sow Epictetus, who was a slave, looked around at Nero’s court and saw rich and famous men who were less free than he was. Because they spent all their energy trying to get more than what they had, because their happiness ...
10.26.2023 Try To Surprise People This Way \| Ask DS He didn’t dress in fancy clothes. He didn’t support a large entourage. He liked to walk the streets of Rome, meeting his fellow citizens, being of use and helping them. As a politician, Cato traveled across the empire, again, without ...
10.25.2023 It’s Not About The One-Liners A Stoic sense of humor, a tough exterior–these are only the beginning of the process, of processing. Stoicism is a hard slog. It’s a practice. It’s an ongoing thing. It’s something you do. And learning how to practice more, how ...
10.25.2023 Dr. Peter Attia On The Philosophy and Quality Of Life (Part 2) Ryan speaks with Dr. Peter Attia on the philosophy and quality aspects of our lives, early morning routines we still practice from the stoics and quotes from Dr. Attia's new book OUTLIVE The Science & Art Of Longevity. Peter Attia, ...
10.24.2023 Sometimes Words Are Very Unnecessary \| Robert Greene's 10 Stoic Laws For A Better Life The Stoics talk about how events don’t need your opinion, they aren’t asking to be judged or labeled or explained by you. They were saying what Depeche Mode once said, that sometimes words are very unnecessary–that they can only do ...
10.23.2023 This Is What We Use This For \| Build Up, Don’t Tear Down On the surface, there are not many phrases designed to be less appealing. “Stoic philosophy” is like a double whammy of negative for most people, representing emotionlessness on the one hand and abstract or academic thinking on the other. Who ...
10.22.2023 The Kind of Philosophical Life To Aim For More than 60 years ago, a young boy in Pittsburgh, PA was curious about philosophy. He went to his high school library and found a book of the writings of Kant. Excited, smart for his age, he started reading…and only ...

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12.03.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \|Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher King Marcus Aurelius was chosen by Emporer Hadrian to be his eventual successor. In 161, Aurelius took control of the Roman Empire along with his brother Verus. War and disease threatened Rome on all sides. Aurelius held his territory, but was ...
12.02.2023 Kate Flannery on the Rise and Fall of American Apparel (PT 1) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with author Kate Flannery on Dov Charney and their early journey at American Apparel, the evolution of feminism, imposter syndrome vs being qualified and the difference between quitting and getting ...
12.01.2023 Joy Even So (Part 2) \| Pretend Today Is The End On his way to work each day in Boston, John Adams would hear a man singing. As his great biographer David McCollough writes in John Adams, it was a beautiful, almost joyful song that inspired him as he headed to ...
11.30.2023 Don't Let Them Turn You Into This \| Ask DS In Book 7 of Meditations, Marcus writes to himself (as the Gregory Hays translation, which you can grab a special edition of here, has it): "Take care that you don't treat inhumanity as it treats human beings." What does that ...
11.29.2023 Do You Really Like This? People say they love learning. And sure, they pick up books and go to museums and watch documentaries, and yes, they sat through their college courses. But this is only superficial evidence of a true student. There’s a joke from ...
11.29.2023 Whitney Cummings on Finding Inspiration and Being Relentlessly Present (Pt 2) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with Whitney Cummings, comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast “Good for You". In part 2 of 2 they discuss having no sense of what ...
11.28.2023 The Only Revenge Worth Getting Unfortunately, it’s been happening for a long time: People doing horrible things to each other. Marcus Aurelius was betrayed. Seneca was exiled on trumped-up charges. There were Stoics who were cheated on. There were Stoics who were persecuted. Stoics who ...
11.27.2023 Here’s The Deal \| Balance The Books Of Life We got together with family. We reminded ourselves what was important. We enjoyed the bounties of the Earth. Perhaps when we took the rolls out of the oven we noted, as Marcus Aurelius did in Meditations, the way the bread ...
11.26.2023 Overcoming Adversity In Leadership Roles In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan talks with 150 Local Business Leaders and Marketing Directors who are Twins Brand Partners about Challenges we face, Overcoming adversity in leadership roles and work life balance. ✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: ...
11.25.2023 Whitney Cummings on Routines, Creating Great Art, and Addiction (Pt 1) On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with Whitney Cummings, comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast “Good for You". In part 1 of 2 they discuss having no sense of what ...
11.24.2023 You Can Do Something About This \| Train To Let Go Of What’s Not Yours Marcus Aurelius would have recognized the feeling you feel right now. So would Seneca and Cato and many of the other Stoics. The Romans, like Americans, loved a good feast. They loved wine. They loved breaking bread with family. We ...
11.23.2023 It’s All A Gift \| Ask Ds It doesn’t seem that way of course. The economy is a mess, the government is dysfunctional, the virus is still there, screwing up plans and making us sick. People are annoying. People are frustrating. Your co-worker is a jerk. Your ...
11.22.2023 What Comes Next Matters Less It’s not that the Stoics didn’t love. It’s not that they didn’t like the nice stuff that they had or the jobs they had worked hard to earn. Of course, they liked these things and would have preferred to keep ...
11.22.2023 Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learning from the Past (Part 2) Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi The economics of a book being different than the media, How much do you internalize the tumult and danger around you as a journalist, Fundamentally journalism ...
11.21.2023 It’s Not Romantic. It’s Just Work. \|12 Ways Stoics Build Mental Strength And Resilience We have a false picture about how success happens. We often only see the results and almost never the process of things, so we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape, being wise—is impressive, and therefore ...
11.20.2023 Put All Of Your Energy Into This \| Practice Letting Go Amazon tells us that’s one of the most highlighted passages in the digital version of Stillness is the Key. It’s an idea that’s impossible to disentangle from Stoicism. Epictetus said there were things that were up to us and some ...
11.19.2023 Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 4: On Progress In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan presents an excerpt from one of the seminal texts of Stoicism, the Discourses of Epictetus, read by Michael Reid. As a series of lectures given by Epictetus that were written down by his pupil Arrian ...
11.18.2023 Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism (Part 1) Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi on mastery in learning the entire playbook so that you can throw it away, How the information makes us blind to the facts, Fundamentally journalism is ...
11.17.2023 How To Make It Good \| Judge Not, Lest… Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. At the height of his artistic powers, he was thrown in jail–an awful prison which contained the germs that later killed him. It was intolerance and tyranny, ...
11.16.2023 What Do You See? \| Ask Ds A man walks through a field of flowing grain, the grass bending low under its own weight. The wind blows softly on a cold day. He looks and sees a small bird sitting on a branch, the steam rising off ...
11.15.2023 This Is What Will Happen To Your Accomplishments Marcus Aurelius spent 14 years at war with the Marcomanni. It was a brutal, grinding campaign which he eventually won at great cost and risk. His victory was celebrated as a triumph, immortalized in a 97 foot tall marble tower ...
11.15.2023 Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 2) Ryan speaks with book athour & screenwriter Steven Pressfield on fewer possessions, superstition in memorabilia, the impact of working without any attachments to the outcome, and his new books The Daily Pressfield. Steven is an American author of historical fiction, ...
11.14.2023 You Can’t Deny This \|10 Stoic Tips For Being A Better Leader Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. Other Stoics knew better. Thrasea (whose story we tell in Lives of the Stoics) opposed him from the start. Agrippinus (another ...
11.14.2023 Listen Now: Six Trophies with Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion Shea Serrano and Jason Concepcion are back! And this time they’re combing through all the NBA news from the past week and handing out six pop culture-themed trophies to six basketball-related activities. Every week, superlatives will reign down on basketball ...
11.13.2023 It’s All In How You See It \| Judge Yourself Not Others It’s fascinating to think of all these different translators sitting down and seeing this same bit of writing and having such wildly different interpretations. How much each one was a reflection of their time and place, how much room there ...
11.12.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \| Epictetus the Free Man Epictetus taught that philosophy is a way of life and not simply a theoretical discipline. To Epictetus, all external events are beyond our control; he argues that we should accept whatever happens calmly and dispassionately. However, individuals are responsible for ...
11.11.2023 Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 1) Ryan speaks with book athour & screenwriter Steven Pressfield on fewer possessions, superstition in memorabilia, the impact of working without any attachments to the outcome, and his new books The Daily Pressfield. Steven is an American author of historical fiction, ...
11.10.2023 All Success Is A Lagging Indicator \| Always The Same From the outside looking in, author Philipp Meyer had the kind of success that is easy to not just be envious of, but angry about. His first two published novels, American Rust and The Son, were massive critical and commercial ...
11.09.2023 This is Why You Can’t Try To Avoid Criticism \| Ask DS Nobody wants to be criticized. It doesn’t feel good when people judge what you’ve done. We want the right people to like us, we want all people to like us. We want to be accepted, appreciated, and celebrated. So we ...
11.08.2023 Joy Even So (Part 1) John Adams' life was not an easy one. First, because it was just hard to be alive in the 18th century. It was hard to make dinner. It was hard to stay warm in the winter. It was hard to ...
11.08.2023 Adam Kinzinger On Doing The Unexpected And Freeing Ourselves From Fear Ryan speaks with Adam Kinzinger on losing the things in life that become normal to us, freeing ourselves from fear, his new book Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country, and putting his job on the line for ...
11.07.2023 This Is Where You Are \| Marcus Aurelius' 12 Fundamentals Of Great Leadership It would be wonderful to live in a time where people got along. It’d be better if the economy was roaring. It’d be nice if the political landscape wasn’t dominated by grifters and demagogues. And of course, who doesn’t wish ...
11.06.2023 Which Limits Do You Respect? \| The Real Power You Have When you’re tired, you stop. When you’re not feeling it, you put it off until tomorrow. When it’s hard, you make an excuse. You listen to that little voice inside you that lets you off the hook, that gives you ...
11.05.2023 Lives Of The Stoics \| Cato the Younger, Rome's Iron Man also known as Cato the Censor and the Wise, was a Roman soldier, senator, and historian known for his conservatism and opposition to Hellenization. He was the first to write history in Latin with his Origines, a now fragmentary work ...
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11.03.2023 All The Stoics Were Kings \| Following The Doctor’s Orders Marcus Aurelius was a true philosopher king, but he wasn’t the first or the last amongst the Stoics. The first emperor, Octavian, studied under Athenodorus and Arius Didymus. Hadrian took classes from Epictetus and Antoninus was a kind of natural ...
11.02.2023 This Matters Way More Than The Details \| Ask DS There can be so much about the study of this philosophy that can be overwhelming that’s intimidating. When did Stoicism start? Where did it begin? What the hell is a Stoa Poikile?? Put aside that it focuses on some of ...
11.01.2023 It's The Dead's Day Yesterday was Halloween here in America, which is a fun holiday for children. It’s full of masks and candy and staying up late. In Mexico, however, today is the beginning of Día de los Muertos, a much more adult and ...
11.01.2023 Performance Anxiety & Yips With Eileen Canney Linnehan Ryan Speaks with Eileen Canney Linnehan on Yips, performance anxiety, and mental block on todays episode of the daily stoic podcast. Eileen Canney Linnehan was a star pitcher at Northwestern who suddenly could not throw to first base. Now she ...
10.31.2023 Don’t Be Scared By Things Like This \| 10 Stoic Parenting Tips You might think that the Stoics were above silly things like superstitions. After all, these were rational folks, serious people. Certainly, they wouldn’t believe in ghosts, right? They wouldn’t have time for something as juvenile as a ghost story, would ...
10.30.2023 A Measure Of Greatness \| Accepting What Is Not everyone thinks Marcus Aurelius was so great. And it’s true, his record is not unblemished: He fought in imperial wars. He didn’t stop the persecution of the Christians. His son was disturbed and unfit to succeed him. So can ...
10.29.2023 The Power Of Purpose Today, Ryan answers questions on purpose and stoic wisdom at Dr. Edith Egar's workshop. Dr. Eger’s story as a Holocaust survivor & work as a renowned therapist has impacted millions around the world. As someone who lived through unthinkable trauma, ...
10.28.2023 Adam Grant On Hidden Potential And Measuring Yourself Against Yourself Ryan speaks with organizational psychologist and book author Adam Grant on seeing things in the context of where they actually sit, learning to be pleased but not satisfied, current sports culture and his new book Hidden Potential: The Science of ...
10.27.2023 Rule The Empire Between Your Ears \| We Reap What We Sow Epictetus, who was a slave, looked around at Nero’s court and saw rich and famous men who were less free than he was. Because they spent all their energy trying to get more than what they had, because their happiness ...
10.26.2023 Try To Surprise People This Way \| Ask DS He didn’t dress in fancy clothes. He didn’t support a large entourage. He liked to walk the streets of Rome, meeting his fellow citizens, being of use and helping them. As a politician, Cato traveled across the empire, again, without ...
10.25.2023 It’s Not About The One-Liners A Stoic sense of humor, a tough exterior–these are only the beginning of the process, of processing. Stoicism is a hard slog. It’s a practice. It’s an ongoing thing. It’s something you do. And learning how to practice more, how ...
10.25.2023 Dr. Peter Attia On The Philosophy and Quality Of Life (Part 2) Ryan speaks with Dr. Peter Attia on the philosophy and quality aspects of our lives, early morning routines we still practice from the stoics and quotes from Dr. Attia's new book OUTLIVE The Science & Art Of Longevity. Peter Attia, ...
10.24.2023 Sometimes Words Are Very Unnecessary \| Robert Greene's 10 Stoic Laws For A Better Life The Stoics talk about how events don’t need your opinion, they aren’t asking to be judged or labeled or explained by you. They were saying what Depeche Mode once said, that sometimes words are very unnecessary–that they can only do ...
10.23.2023 This Is What We Use This For \| Build Up, Don’t Tear Down On the surface, there are not many phrases designed to be less appealing. “Stoic philosophy” is like a double whammy of negative for most people, representing emotionlessness on the one hand and abstract or academic thinking on the other. Who ...
10.22.2023 The Kind of Philosophical Life To Aim For More than 60 years ago, a young boy in Pittsburgh, PA was curious about philosophy. He went to his high school library and found a book of the writings of Kant. Excited, smart for his age, he started reading…and only ...

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Lives Of The Stoics |Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher King

Kate Flannery on the Rise and Fall of American Apparel (PT 1)

Joy Even So (Part 2) | Pretend Today Is The End

Don't Let Them Turn You Into This | Ask DS

Do You Really Like This?

Whitney Cummings on Finding Inspiration and Being Relentlessly Present (Pt 2)

The Only Revenge Worth Getting

Here’s The Deal | Balance The Books Of Life

Overcoming Adversity In Leadership Roles

Whitney Cummings on Routines, Creating Great Art, and Addiction (Pt 1)

You Can Do Something About This | Train To Let Go Of What’s Not Yours

It’s All A Gift | Ask Ds

What Comes Next Matters Less

Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learning from the Past (Part 2)

It’s Not Romantic. It’s Just Work. |12 Ways Stoics Build Mental Strength And Resilience

Put All Of Your Energy Into This | Practice Letting Go

Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 4: On Progress

Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism (Part 1)

How To Make It Good | Judge Not, Lest…

What Do You See? | Ask Ds

This Is What Will Happen To Your Accomplishments

Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 2)

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