Cicero on The Paradox of the Fool
Ryan presents the first of six readings of Cicero's Stoic Paradoxes. Cicero was considered Rome’s greatest politician, and he has survived as one of history’s most enduring chroniclers of Stoic philos...
26 Mar 202310min
Zach Braff on Healing and Helping with Art and Stoicism
Ryan speaks with Zach Braff about his new Stoicism-inspired movie A Good Person, how the idea of Amor fati has helped him translate recent personal trauma into art, what he has learned about supportin...
25 Mar 20231h 7min
Have You Been Infected Yet? | There is Philosophy in Everything
In the year 165 AD, a plague began to break out in Rome. Brought back from the far eastern corners of the empire, the virus spread from person to person, house to house, until nearly all of Rome was o...
24 Mar 202312min
Don’t Make This Lesson More Painful | Ask DS
We get so used to having our way. We live in a time when the skies have been conquered. When so many diseases have been vanquished. When technology allows us to do and have things that were inconceiva...
23 Mar 202312min
Steve Scott on Winning in Life
Ryan speaks with Steve Scott about his book Hey, Tiger―You Need to Move Your Mark Back: 9 Simple Words that Changed the Game of Golf Forever, why having integrity is such a crucial part of being a goo...
22 Mar 20231h 7min
Here’s How To Get Out Of A Rut
The busier we get, the more we work, even the more that we learn and read, the further we tend to drift from our center. We get in a rhythm. We’re making money, being creative, we’re stimulated and bu...
22 Mar 20232min
They’ll Never GIVE It To You | 6 Simple Stoic Lessons To Feel More Peace
We like to think that someday, things will be slower, more peaceful. That we’ll get a break. That after the holidays, after this busy season, then we’ll be able to get serious–about that thing we need...
21 Mar 20237min
There Is No Greatness Without This | The Portable Retreat
People probably thought Marcus Aurelius was strange. The time he spent alone in his room. The long walks he took by himself. We know they thought it was strange that he was seen reading and writing in...
20 Mar 20239min
