This is Why You Can’t Try To Avoid Criticism
Nobody wants to be criticized. It doesn’t feel good when people judge what you’ve done. We want the right people to like us, we want all people to like us. We want to be accepted, appreciated, celebra...
7 Feb 20242min
You Can Have This Joy | The Stoic Art Of Stillness (12 Keys)
Look, everyone is entitled to their own opinion and if in their opinion, that’s what Stoicism is in their view—God bless them. But the facts just don’t support it. There was literally a Stoic (Chrysip...
6 Feb 202414min
Try Not To Be So Slow | Suspend Your Opinions
In the early years, there was an excuse. Nero was just a teenager when Seneca started tutoring him. The boy was timid and coddled. He had experienced tragedy and his childhood had been strange. Beside...
5 Feb 20249min
An Empire Exhausted
In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan pulls an excerpt from Colin Elliott's latest book, POX ROMANA: THE PLAGUE THAT SHOOK THE ROMAN WORLD. Learn how the Antonine Plague exposed ...
4 Feb 202410min
Dr. Michael Gervais On The Extension Of Stoicism In Modern Times (Pt 2)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan continues his conversation with one of the world's top high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and huma...
3 Feb 20241h 7min
This Is Why You Shouldn’t Be Jealous | A Proper Frame Of Mind
Imagine the jealousy that they must have felt. Hadrian was gifting the purple—the job of the emperor—to a teenager he wasn’t even related to. In 138 AD, his succession plan involved adopting Antoninus...
2 Feb 20248min
Until You Get There, Try This | Ask DS
Maybe towards the end, it’s possible to get to that level. Maybe after a lifetime of study and practice, a Stoic can come to not just understand but to live up to the insight that Marcus Aurelius writ...
1 Feb 20248min
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 Jan 20242min
