Do You Practice For Rejection? | A Little Knowledge Is Dangerous
Part of the reason we’re afraid of things is that we’re unfamiliar. We don’t know what it’s like to bomb on stage in front of people, but it seems bad–so we avoid any scenario where something like tha...
14 Jul 20238min
You Have To Anticipate This Kind Of Behavior | Ask DS
In Richard III and in Othello, Shakespeare has two different characters utter the same line. Both Iago and a nameless orphan say, “I cannot think it.”In both cases, the news they are faced with—the co...
13 Jul 202314min
Melinda Moyer On Changing The World By Raising Curious Kids
Ryan speaks with Melinda Moyer about how the death of her family dog became an opportunity to teach her children about emotions, why feelings of powerlessness led her to write her best-selling book Ho...
12 Jul 20231h 8min
Don’t Let Them Steal This Too
People will take things from you (as we talked about recently with Epictetus and his lamp). People will betray you–as Marcus Aurelius was by his most trusted general, Avidius Cassius. People will lie,...
12 Jul 20232min
This Is All There Is | 10 Stoic Quotes That Will Motivate You To Seize The Day
It’s one of the great moments in the history of comedy. At Comedy Central Presents: The Roast of Bob Saget, the comedian Norm Macdonald is up roasting his friend, Bob Saget and the rest of the panel. ...
11 Jul 202311min
What Are You Fueling? | Don't Look For The Third Thing
In the early days of the pandemic, many of us picked up new hobbies and habits. We started taking walks. We started cooking for ourselves. Some of us stopped drinking. Some of us started doing 50 push...
10 Jul 20239min
The Life Of Seneca The Striver
In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan narrates the chapter on Seneca the Striver from his own best-selling guide to all the major Stoics, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aureli...
9 Jul 202348min
Rachel Hollis On Learning From The Worst Moments, Measuring Success, And Doing Your Best
Ryan continues the second in his two-part discussion with Rachel Hollis about what she learned from the public backlash that she received from an instagram video, how she is currently living her defin...
8 Jul 20231h 6min
