Can You Make It This Long? | How Stoics Find Balance In Their Life
We’re supposed to put up with difficult people. We’re supposed to turn the other cheek. We’re supposed to find a way to smile through a tough situation. We’re supposed to be rational in a time of craz...
27 Kesä 20238min
How To Astonish and Inspire For Centuries | What's in Your Way Is The Way
In Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci’s notebooks. As Isaacson observed of Da Vinci’s lifelong habit of ...
26 Kesä 202310min
The Most Beautiful Model Of A Perfect Life
Marcus Aurelius’s father died when he was young. But then this young boy who was cursed by tragedy received a great gift. A gift that all children who have received it know to be one of the most incre...
25 Kesä 202311min
Sam Gwynne On Progress, War, And Zeppelins
Ryan speaks with Sam Gwynne about his new book His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, the triumph of hope over experience, why progress is based in irr...
24 Kesä 20231h 17min
We Can Get This Expensive Thing Cheap | The Long Way Around
The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take the time to download to you all that ...
23 Kesä 20239min
Give It Your All | Ask DS
Cato fought a losing battle. He was trying to preserve a Republic that was old and creaky in a rapidly changing world. He was trying to be honest and good in a political world in which corruption was ...
22 Kesä 202313min
Brett Crozier On Bravery, Impossible Decisions And What It Takes To Be A Leader
Ryan speaks with Brett Crozier about his new book Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain, what it felt like to go against his orders to save the lives...
21 Kesä 20231h 7min
How To Not Be Afraid of Criticism | Marcus Aurelius' Advice For Better Days
No one likes to be found at fault. In fact, this is what many of us walk around fearing–that we’ll be exposed as imposters, we’ll be put on the spot in front of people, we’ll have to admit error. This...
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