The Life Of Chrysippus
In today's audiobook reading, Ryan presents the biography of the great Greco-Phoenician Stoic philosopher Chrysippus. Written by the prolific biographer of the Greek philosophers Diogenes Laertius, th...
14 Touko 202315min
MMA Legend Frank Shamrock On Conquering The Ego and Developing Honor
Ryan speaks with Frank Shamrock about his memoir Uncaged: My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter, the convergence between the Stoic virtues and the tenets of the Warrior Code, managing his ego when he was ...
13 Touko 20231h 12min
What Gets The Best Part of Your Day? | Kindness Is Always The Right Response
In those first moments you’re awake, how do you decide to start this fresh day? By reaching for the phone, for social media? We fill the sunlight hours with meetings, spending them all indoors. We wai...
12 Touko 20239min
Do You Make Time For this? | Ask DS
Even when he was president, Jimmy Carter tried to carve out space for reflection and study. Just a few days after being sworn in, he was already asking his aides to push his meetings back. “I need mor...
11 Touko 202312min
Gretchen Rubin On The Power Of Exploring Your Senses
Ryan speaks with Gretchen Rubin about her new book Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World, how our reality is composed entirely of our perceptions, her ...
10 Touko 20231h 13min
When Is The Last Time You Challenged Yourself?
It’s very easy to get comfortable. To build up your life exactly how you want it to be. Minimize inconveniences and hand off the stuff you don’t like to do. To find what you enjoy, where you enjoy it,...
10 Touko 20232min
The Personal Is Universal | Short Stoic Lessons From All Of Ryan Holiday's Books
Many artists—songwriters, poets, comedians, and so on—have said some version of the same idea: the personal is universal. Artists often find the more personal they get in their art, the more people te...
9 Touko 202319min
This Is A Great Pleasure | We Are A Product Of Our Habits
Of the four Stoic virtues, Marcus Aurelius said justice was the most important. To him, it was “the source of all the other virtues.” After all, how impressive are courage or discipline if they are on...
8 Touko 20239min
