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 wis...
21 Marras 202317min
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 thing...
20 Marras 20239min
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 wer...
19 Marras 202310min
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 b...
18 Marras 202358min
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. ...
17 Marras 20239min
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 ...
16 Marras 202312min
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...
15 Marras 20232min
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 Dai...
15 Marras 20231h 6min
