Do This To Get That
In a sense, this is also the secret to happiness. No one can give us step-by-step instructions for achieving happiness—not even the Stoics. But they did teach us how to be resilient, how to think, how...
10 Jan 20242min
Kermit Roosevelt III on Theodore Roosevelt and the Collapse of Honor (PT 1)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with American author, lawyer, and legal scholar Kermit Roosevelt III on Honoring and doing what is right, Why peoples values and sense of honor a...
10 Jan 20241h 7min
You Can’t Make Them Appreciate It |The Most Important Thing You Can Do Every Day
You do a lot. You try hard. You hold yourself to high standards—higher anyway, than most people. You’re not exactly a reincarnation of Cato but still, you’re doing great.But do people appreciate this?...
9 Jan 202416min
It’s a Beautiful Tradition | The Sphere Of Choice
Some time around the year 141 CE, Junius Rusticus gave Marcus Aurelius a gift. “The remembrances of Epictetus,” as Marcus would refer most gratefully to the book Rusticus gave him, “which he supplied ...
8 Jan 202411min
Coping With Grief: 10 Timeless Strategies From Ancient Philosophy
In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan presents an excerpt touching on grief and the 10 timeless strategies read by voice actor Micheal Reid. If you want to spend time with more d...
7 Jan 202438min
Christina Pazsitzky, Tom Segura, Whitney Cummings, Drew Michael, Pete Holmes, and Katherine Blanford on Comedy and Philosophy
Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews throughout 2023. This year, we had a handful of great comedians come onto the podcast and I got the pleasure of having them in the Daily...
6 Jan 20241h 1min
Do This Every Day | Clarify Your Intentions
The pages were a safe space. A place away from the intrigues of court. A place away from war and death and pestilence. A place to process his stress, his anxieties, his fears.We can see in Meditations...
5 Jan 20247min
The Thing We Never Want To Do | Ask DS
We know what Seneca thought of Alexander the Great. We know what he thought of Marius. We know what he thought of entitled and gluttonous Romans. We have his seething satire of Claudius.His prolific w...
4 Jan 202415min
