It’s Hard To Be a Person In This World | Your Actual Needs Are Small
Even if the changes are positive, we can appreciate that they’ve been difficult for people. There is so much to navigate, to be sensitive to in this modern world of ours. People are expected to be tol...
29 Sep 20229min
Find The Space
Think about the last time that someone made you upset. What did they say? What did they do? Now think back: How did you react? What did you say? What did you feel?📕 Ryan Holiday's new book "Disciplin...
28 Sep 20222min
David Maraniss on Why We Study the Greats
Ryan talks to author and journalist David Maraniss about his approach to his work, and his most recent book: Path Lit by Lightning: The Life of Jim Thorpe, which is an epic biography on the trials of ...
28 Sep 20221h 3min
This is the Win | Discipline Is Destiny: The Four Virtues
Before he was a big time comedian, Hasan Minhaj was asked if he thought he was going to make it big. “I don’t like that question,” he said. “I fundamentally don’t like that question.” Because the ques...
27 Sep 202212min
Discipline Now…Freedom Later | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm
At a critical moment in The Odyssey, Odysseus tied himself to the mast of his ship because he knew he wouldn’t be able to resist steering the ship toward the beautiful sound of the Sirens. In temporar...
26 Sep 20229min
Memento Mori: The Reminder You Desperately Need
Who wants to think about death?In his Meditations—essentially his own private journal—Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” Tha...
25 Sep 202254min
Ryan Lavarnway on Sports and Philosophy
Ryan talks to professional baseball catcher Ryan Lavarnway about his experience being the only professional baseball player with a philosophy degree from Yale, the intersection of sports and philosoph...
24 Sep 20221h 7min
This Is Why You Should Stick Around | Ask Daily Stoic
There are moments where things are so bad it can seem like they’ll never get better. Perhaps we’re young and being bullied. Or we’re in the midst of some massive rush of negative publicity–maybe we’re...
23 Sep 202215min
