Will You Understand Or Be Understood? | Ask DS
There are very few people who feel completely understood. Starting from a young age, our parents didn’t fully get us. Or maybe it was our teachers. Maybe there is some part of us apparently beyond the...
3 Aug 202312min
Ann Wroe On The Real Story Of Pontius Pilate, And His Connection To Stoicism
Ryan speaks with Ann Wroe about her book Pontius Pilate: The Biography of an Invented Man, what she has learned over her long career of writing obituaries, why death is the great equalizer, the intrig...
2 Aug 20231h 1min
Beware This Madness
What we do while in the sway of anger we almost always come to regret. Whether it was the yelling or the impulsive decision to quit, whether it was the cruel words or the quiet revenge, with the passa...
2 Aug 20233min
What Is The Function of Worry? | How Stoicism Can Help You Get Sober (And Stay Sober)
One of the most timeless lines in all of the Stoic writings comes from Epictetus, "What upsets people is not things themselves, but their judgements about these things.”It's a powerful idea. And it's ...
1 Aug 202315min
We Almost Always Regret This | A Week Without Complaining
It’s not that we didn’t have a reason. That we weren’t provoked. Or mistreated. We were. We had legitimate reasons to be upset. We had a legitimate grievance.And yet…our response was such a mistake. W...
31 Jul 20238min
How Stoicism Can Help Make Health Care Better
As Epictetus said, “the philosopher’s classroom is like a hospital,” so, too, can Stoic philosophy help improve the halls of medicine and the people who practice there. This was the premise of a talk ...
30 Jul 202334min
Lt. David Carey Uncovering Our Own Capacity To Get Through Anything
Ryan speaks with Lieutenant David Carey in this second of a two-part interview about the bonds that he and his fellow POWs formed in captivity, why he feels no hatred to the guards who imprisoned and ...
29 Jul 202350min
What Matters Is What You Can Do In The Moment | Check Your Privilege
Epictetus didn’t care what you had read. He didn’t care if you had made it through the densest writings of Chryssipus. Marcus Aurelius didn’t care what your job was, what your education was, what your...
28 Jul 20237min
