You Can Never Do This Twice | The Freedom Of Contempt
The first time was revelatory. The first time you watched Mad Men. Or The Godfather. Or cracked open Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Or heard Tom Petty’s Free Fallin’ or listened to Fantine sing, I Drea...
24 Apr 20239min
The Life of Cleanthes
In today's audiobook reading, Ryan presents the biography of the great Stoic philosopher, boxer, and successor to Zeno of Citium as the second head of the Stoic school of Athens, Cleanthes. Written by...
23 Apr 202311min
Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connection
Ryan speaks with Sarah Bakewell about her new book Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope, how growing up surrounded by books shaped her philosophical mindse...
22 Apr 20231h 3min
There Is No More Or Less Time | Don't Let Your Attention Slide
Three years removed from those eerie and strange days of the early pandemic, one thing that strikes us is how much time we seemed to have then. People were picking up hobbies, slow cooking elaborate m...
21 Apr 20238min
Can You Fight To See Their Side? | Ask DS
One gets the sense that Seneca, like many smart and active people, was often frustrated by other people. It is inevitable that someone like him—someone creating art, actively participating in governme...
20 Apr 202311min
Comedian Katherine Blanford on Laughing At Life
Ryan speaks with Katherine Blanford about her earning things throughout her comedy career, her Catholic upbringing, why the funniest moments come from a dark place, how her mother influences her comed...
19 Apr 20231h 10min
To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book The Daily Dad (which you can preorder signed copies of now!).To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These“These things are not asking to be judg...
19 Apr 20231min
There Are Dreams That Cannot Be | 9 Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
Marcus Aurelius certainly hoped his reign would be peaceful and prosperous–as the fates had blessed his mentor Antoninus for 23 years. Certainly, he dreamed of growing old with all his children around...
18 Apr 202311min
