The Best Time Is Now | 9 Peak Performance Tips from Top Performers
Obviously, the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The earlier you get started on something that takes time, the bigger and better the results will be. As Seneca once said about the days that p...
31 Jan 202318min
History Repeats And It Doesn’t | Focus On The Present Moment
History is the same thing happening over and over again, Marcus Aurelius said. There’s nothing new under the sun.And yet, like all things in philosophy, the opposite idea must also be held true at the...
30 Jan 20238min
Cicero on The Paradox of Virtue
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...
29 Jan 202312min
Professor Paul Woodruff on Philosophy, War and Justice
Ryan speaks with Paul Woodruff about his book The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards, the ancient purpose of justice, reflections on a lifetime of studying philosophy, what serving in Vietna...
28 Jan 20231h 1min
Are You Great Like This? | Ask Daily Stoic
People have different definitions of greatness or success.Maybe you think yourself powerful because you have a lot of people working for you. Or successful because you have a full calendar. Or importa...
27 Jan 202310min
What To Do When You Have Fallen Short | The Three Areas of Training
He had considered not going public with it. He had wanted so badly to be able to keep saying, to get credit for being the guy who says, ‘I’m sixteen years sober.’ But he could not.So in September of 2...
26 Jan 20239min
Professor Sarah Churchwell on Genius, Big Dreams and F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ryan speaks with Sarah Churchwell about her book Careless People: Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby, the complicated figure of F. Scott Fitzgerald, how The Great Gatsby’s celebrati...
25 Jan 20231h 11min
Lean Into Their Strengths Rather Than Disdain Their Weaknesses
Marcus Aurelius was clearly torn about his fellow man. He was loving and kind and spoke repeatedly of serving the common good. He was also clearly frustrated and disappointed with the flaws of the peo...
25 Jan 20232min
