You Are The Solution To Your Problem | Our Duty To Learn
Life may have big challenges in store for us. What’s more certain, as we talked about recently, is the ‘petty hazards of the day.’ We may find ourselves thrust in some crisis–a big political moment or...
7 Heinä 20238min
You Can Let This Make You Miserable, Or Come To Terms With It | Ask DS
It doesn't matter how important you are. It doesn't matter how much money you have. It doesn't matter how used to getting your way you are, or how much you have planned and prepared.A single driver ca...
6 Heinä 202312min
Andrew Wehrman On Why It Is Crucial To Study Pandemics Of The Past
Ryan speaks with Andrew Wehrman about his new book The Contagion of Liberty: The Politics of Smallpox in the American Revolution, how and why responses to health emergencies in the past are strangely ...
5 Heinä 20231h 5min
May This Be The Last One Standing
For years, the Stoics had fought. First, they fought moral and spiritual decay, trying to preserve Rome’s traditions in the midst of all their success. Then they fought, as Cato did, to keep the Repub...
5 Heinä 20233min
Can You Embrace The Challenge Like They Did? | How Stoics Develop a Strong Mindset
The fact that America exists is the ultimate argument that Stoicism is not apathy and that philosophy is not mere theory. Because without Stoicism, it’s possible there would have been no revolution, n...
4 Heinä 202310min
You Must Play It Like A Game | Protect Your Own Good
Life may have big challenges in store for us. What’s more certain, as we talked about recently, is the ‘petty hazards of the day.’ We may find ourselves thrust in some crisis–a big political moment or...
3 Heinä 20237min
Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 1
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...
2 Heinä 202313min
Garland Robinette On The Stoic Principle That Shapes His Incredible Life
Ryan speaks with Garland Robinette about the brain-altering effects of chasing dopamine, how he has coped with his morally injurious experience serving in Vietnam, his movie-like life and career path,...
1 Heinä 20231h 20min
