Ryan Holiday on The Art and Stoicism of Digital Marketing
Today, Ryan presents a live talk that he gave in September 2022 to a group of business leaders about the art and business of modern marketing. He covers why competition is for losers, how to create cl...
2 Apr 202347min
Lori Gottlieb on Changing Your Life by Changing the Story
Ryan speaks with Lori Gottlieb about the profound effect that stories have on our lives, why we are all unreliable narrators, how we can make real steps toward positive change by practicing self-compa...
1 Apr 20231h 3min
Your Standards Are For You | You’re a Product of Your Training
One of the things that separates us from other people—indeed that has been responsible for our success—is our ability to be strict and self-disciplined. Where other people are fine making excuses or t...
31 Mar 20237min
This Helps You Be A Better Person | Ask DS
Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington profited from slavery, but both knew it was wrong. Yet at the end of their lives, it was Washington who freed his slaves, not Jefferson, who had written far...
30 Mar 202314min
Just Do This Daily | 8 Stoic Strategies For Controlling Your Anger
A successful day for a Stoic is simple. It’s not about making more money. Or getting more famous, or dazzling more people with your accomplishments. It’s whether or not you got better.Specifically, it...
29 Mar 202310min
Wes Larson on Respecting the Awesome Power of Nature
Ryan speaks with Wes Larson about how and why he dedicated his life to working with bears, the feeling of being alive that he gets when working up close with bears in the wild, what our inherent fear ...
29 Mar 20231h 7min
Don’t Make Assumptions
You don’t get a joke, so you say it’s not funny. You don’t like something, so you believe it sucks. You’re white, so you’ve always taken it for granted that the color ‘nude’ roughly matches your skin....
29 Mar 20232min
How To Better Understand The Past | Say No to the Need to Impress
In retrospect, so many of the decisions the Stoics made are baffling. Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus. Seneca and Nero. Their attitude toward women, toward slavery, toward violence, toward what s...
27 Mar 20238min
