You Took The Job
The Emperor Hadrian’s life sometimes felt, as it does for all leaders, like an endless demand for favors. Letters came from across the empire asking for this and that. The Senate, the courts, his own ...
20 Sep 20232min
Who Could Have Seen It? | 9 Stoic Lessons From Running Every Single Day
Everything seems fine. Everything seems better than fine. Your life is going great. You’re happy. You’re in love. Your finances are great. But will it last? Or will Fortune, as Seneca said she is wont...
19 Sep 202311min
This Is What Leaders Do | On Handling Haters
After a long line of incompetence, after a long chain of excuses, after a series of failures, the Union cause finally turned around when General Ulysses S. Grant took command. Other generals had focus...
18 Sep 20238min
The Life Of Agrippinus The Different
Agrippinus marched to the beat of his own drum. Today, Ryan reads from his book Lives Of The Stoics to explain just what that meant for one of the most eccentric and interesting Stoic philosophers, Pa...
17 Sep 202312min
James Outman On Why Baseball Is Stoicism
Ryan speaks with James Outman on why he believes that baseball and Stoicism both promote the same practices, why baseball players are uniquely prepared to deal with failure, how practicing the Stoic m...
16 Sep 20231h 4min
This Is a Bad Way To Drive (and Live) | A Garden Is Not For Show
With the proliferation of dashcams and the spread of social media, we see these clips everywhere. It’s basically its own genre of video at this point. A driver is frustrated with someone going too slo...
15 Sep 20236min
How You Endure It Matters Most | Ask DS
No one knows what the future holds, but if it’s anything like the present or the past, it will not be easy. Things will not go our way. Tragedies will happen. Injustices will be inflicted upon us. Ins...
14 Sep 202318min
Adrian Grenier On Recovering From Being Famous
Ryan speaks with Adrian Grenier in the second of a two-part episode about what it’s really like to be famous, why and how he quit acting, how Adrian’s lifestyle was shaped for the worse by his role on...
13 Sep 20231h 24min
