Only The Wise Are Free | A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous
Most people are enslaved and controlled and directed by their ignorance. Their impulses. Their temper. Their desires and delusions.📚 The Four Stoic Virtues: Justice, Temperance, Wisdom, Courage, are ...
14 Jul 20259min
Seneca Explains The Art of Argument
In this letter, Seneca critiques sophistical argumentation, highlighting how it exercises wit without purpose and distracts from the essentials of living a good life. Today’s episode is an excerpt fro...
13 Jul 202511min
Think About Death. Science Says You’ll Be Happier. | Dr. Laurie Santos
The most misunderstood Stoic practice is Memento Mori - remember you will die. Dr. Laurie Santos, an expert on the science of happiness, joins Ryan to share the research behind why thinking about your...
12 Jul 20251h 7min
Can You Play Ball Like This? | Stoic Tips For Navigating Change & Disruption
Win or lose, what matters, the Stoics believed, was that we tried. That we did our best. 💡 We designed our How To Read Epictetus (A Daily Stoic Guide) as a personal field guide —part book club, part ...
11 Jul 202521min
Do You Know The Favorite Of Your Favorite? | Ask Daily Stoic
It’s rather sad—almost sacriligeous—that more people don’t know who shaped Marcus’s philosophical worldview. 💡 We designed our How To Read Epictetus (A Daily Stoic Guide) as a personal field guide —p...
10 Jul 202513min
It Does Make Sense
It drives you nuts—the things some people believe and do and say. But here’s the thing: It does make sense. It makes sense to them.📖 Preorder the final book in Ryan Holiday's The Stoic Virtues Series...
9 Jul 20252min
Your Worldview Is Only as Wide as Your Curiosity | Chet Garner
You can’t expand your perspective if you never step out of your bubble. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Chet Garner, host of The Daytripper, to explore how traveling, even just one town over, ...
9 Jul 20251h 8min
How The Powerless Become Powerful | Don't Look For The Third Thing
Why is self-command and self-knowledge so elusive? How can we find it? Well, Epictetus can show us the way, as he did for Marcus and Hadrian and countless others over the centuries.💡 We designed our ...
8 Jul 20258min
