Yes, This Is How It Is | The Obstacle Is The Way
Nearly every day was a terror. People died of easily curable diseases. People starved to death. People were clapped into slavery. Wars broke out–fought literally to the knife–where the losers were exe...
30 Jun 20239min
It’s Really That Simple | Ask DS
Sometimes we are so stuck, so in our own heads, so down on our luck that improvement–let alone a full recovery–seems impossible. Our business has been slowing down. We’re not throwing the ball like we...
29 Jun 202315min
Susan Sauve Meyer On Becoming A Better Person With Aristotle
Ryan speaks with Susan Sauve Meyer about the work of making ancient philosophy accessible in today’s world, the insights that she has gained from teaching philosophy to powerful and famous people, wha...
28 Jun 20231h 7min
Build A Life You Aren’t Trying To Flee
Of course, it’s lovely to take a vacation. It’s lovely to go to cool places. Even on the weekend, it’s lovely to go places and do things we can’t do during the week.But Seneca tells us to be careful. ...
28 Jun 20232min
Can You Make It This Long? | How Stoics Find Balance In Their Life
We’re supposed to put up with difficult people. We’re supposed to turn the other cheek. We’re supposed to find a way to smile through a tough situation. We’re supposed to be rational in a time of craz...
27 Jun 20238min
How To Astonish and Inspire For Centuries | What's in Your Way Is The Way
In Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci’s notebooks. As Isaacson observed of Da Vinci’s lifelong habit of ...
26 Jun 202310min
The Most Beautiful Model Of A Perfect Life
Marcus Aurelius’s father died when he was young. But then this young boy who was cursed by tragedy received a great gift. A gift that all children who have received it know to be one of the most incre...
25 Jun 202311min
Sam Gwynne On Progress, War, And Zeppelins
Ryan speaks with Sam Gwynne about his new book His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, the triumph of hope over experience, why progress is based in irr...
24 Jun 20231h 17min
