How Well Do You Know These Backroads? | The Beauty of Choice
Meditations, you could say, is Marcus Aurelius exploring himself. That’s literally what the title means–the book isn’t for you and I, it’s “things to one’s self,” to himself. He’s exploring his fears,...
17 Mar 20239min
You Can Keep It To Yourself | Ask DS
One of the criticisms of the Stoics is that they left certain things unaddressed. Nowhere in Seneca’s writings, for instance, does he directly address Nero or criticize him by name. Even after he left...
16 Mar 202312min
Bozoma Saint John on the Power of Embracing Memento Mori
Ryan speaks with Bozoma Saint John about her new book The Urgent Life: My Story of My Story of Love, Loss, and Survival, how intense personal traumas have shifted her perspective on life, why the best...
15 Mar 202358min
Mark Your Exit With Grace
Today marks the anniversary of the death of one of humanity’s greatest specimens. On March 17th, 180, in what is now modern day Vienna, Emperor Marcus Aurelius breathed his last breath and died. We do...
15 Mar 20233min
The Only Experience Worth Chasing | These Stoic Quotes Will Improve Your Life
There’s a lot of things to try to do in your life. You should feel the ecstasy of falling in love. You should try to catch the sunrise on one coast, and the sunset on another on the same day. You shou...
14 Mar 20239min
This Is What Discipline Looks Like | Think About It From The Other Person's Perspective
Marcus Aurelius was strict with himself. He slept on a hard mattress. He didn’t drink or eat to excess. He didn’t have affairs or lose his temper. Cato was strict with himself too. He didn’t wear fanc...
13 Mar 20239min
Is Virtue All that is Needed for Happiness?
Today, Ryan presents the second and third 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 chronicle...
12 Mar 202315min
Carli Lloyd on Fueling Greatness with Discipline
Ryan speaks with Carli Lloyd about the intense discipline that it takes to be a professional athlete at the highest level, how she was able to bounce back from being cut from the Women’s National Unde...
11 Mar 20231h 5min
