A Stoic Isn’t Born. They’re Made.
Marcus Aurelius wasn’t born Marcus Aurelius (literally, his name was Marcus Catilius Severus Annius Verus). Epictetus wasn’t born a sage–to say he was would be to deprive him of the enormous credit du...
11 Jan 20234min
You Can’t Keep It From Happening | How To Get Through Life's Most Difficult Situations
When he was starting out in Hollywood, Judd Apatow began to have panic attacks. The stress of rewriting a script. Getting a film in on time. Managing all the moving pieces on a project. He felt the en...
10 Jan 202311min
You Know What’s Coming | The Sphere Of Choice
We worry about the future. About who might win an election we’re closely watching. About what some foreign leader might do. About the markets and your portfolio. About the climate. It’s so uncertain, ...
9 Jan 20239min
How Country Living Can Improve Your Life
Ryan celebrates country living with this presentation of the first in a four-part reading of MD Usher’s translation of Princeton University Press’s How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the ...
8 Jan 202318min
Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing
Ryan looks back on some of the best interviews of 2022 about writing. Featuring Steven Pressfield on what it takes to build discipline and why it’s so important, Robert Greene on our natural tendency ...
7 Jan 20231h 1min
Don’t Join The Mob | Ask Daily Stoic - Habits
In today's Ask Daily Stoic, Ryan discusses how he cultivates better habits, people with habits that he admires, and books that you can read to help improve your routine. If you want to develop better ...
6 Jan 202320min
Are You Ready For Combat? | Clarify Your Intentions
It’s not for posterity that the Stoics sat with their journals. It wasn’t whiney self-indulgence either. They weren’t cataloging their achievements or pouring out their fantasies. They were doing impo...
5 Jan 202310min
100 Lessons from Marcus Aurelius
Meditations is perhaps the only document of its kind ever made. It is the private thoughts of the world’s most powerful man giving advice to himself on how to make good on the responsibilities and obl...
4 Jan 20231h 17min
