Surrender But Don’t Give Yourself Away
The fact of life is that we’re going to get tossed around by forces outside our control. Never forget fortunes’ habit of behaving exactly as she pleases, Seneca reminds us, never forget that adversity...
31 Tammi 20242min
Dr. Michael Gervais on Not Caring What People Think and the Future of Stoicism (Pt 1)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan is joined by Dr. Michael Gervais, one of the world’s top high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and hu...
31 Tammi 202458min
Follow Your Arrow | 7 Stoic Keys To Being A Great Leader (Ryan Holiday Speaks To The U.S. Military)
They were different. Some of them were downright weird. Cleanthes made quite a spectacle of himself in Athens, a philosopher who did manual labor for a living. Cato walked around bareheaded and barefo...
30 Tammi 202427min
Everything Is A Kind Of Dying | A Little Better Every Day
Marcus Aurelius knew this, but he didn’t let it get him down. In fact, he found some reassurance in it. “When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its conclusion,” he observed, “it is a kind...
29 Tammi 20249min
How To Be A Leader | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
As one of history’s most important biographers and essayists, Plutarch studied deeply the traits of great Greek and Roman leaders to identify just what it is that made them great. In today’s audiobook...
28 Tammi 202420min
Adam Nicolson On The Rule Of Philosophy & Greek Mythology
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with English author Adam Nicolson on greek mythology, real meaning of the oceans, travel, the grand question about philosophy, that what really m...
27 Tammi 20241h 5min
You Have To Look This Way | Focus On The Present Moment
In the muck and mire of daily life, it’s easy to get frustrated with people. It’s easy to prioritize the wrong things, to lose perspective. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment or forget the actua...
26 Tammi 20248min
If You Want To Be Happy Do This | Ask Ds
The Stoics talk about a lot of things. But they don’t speak that much about happiness. Is that because they were too tough or too resigned to their bleak view of life to care about it? Did they mean t...
25 Tammi 202413min
