How To Be A Leader (According To Plutarch)
As one of history’s most important biographers and essayists, Plutarch studied deeply the traits of great Greek and Roman leaders to identify just what it is that made them great. In today’s audiobook...
24 Sep 202329min
Jake Seliger On Cancer, Acceptance, And The Gift Of Life
Ryan speaks with Jake Seliger about how his cancer diagnosis and having his tongue removed have changed his perspective on life, why he is prioritizing people much more highly than work now, how he is...
23 Sep 20231h 9min
Consider The Cost Of Those Perks | No Pain, No Gain
During the American Revolution—as in any war—the British quite rightly targeted the estates and the landholdings of the leadership on the American side. Because to them, these men weren’t founders—the...
22 Sep 20237min
You’ve Just Got To Keep Going Back | Ask DS
It’s impossible not to read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca and sense that they were always working. Not that they were literally always at the office–as we said, they believed in a kind of work life balanc...
21 Sep 202311min
Sid Stockdale On The Stoic Legacy Of His Father, Admiral James Stockdale
Ryan speaks with Sid Stockdale about his who his new memoir A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam speaks to, how his family survived his father’s seven-year imprisonment, the valuable les...
20 Sep 20231h 20min
You Took The Job
The Emperor Hadrian’s life sometimes felt, as it does for all leaders, like an endless demand for favors. Letters came from across the empire asking for this and that. The Senate, the courts, his own ...
20 Sep 20232min
Who Could Have Seen It? | 9 Stoic Lessons From Running Every Single Day
Everything seems fine. Everything seems better than fine. Your life is going great. You’re happy. You’re in love. Your finances are great. But will it last? Or will Fortune, as Seneca said she is wont...
19 Sep 202311min
This Is What Leaders Do | On Handling Haters
After a long line of incompetence, after a long chain of excuses, after a series of failures, the Union cause finally turned around when General Ulysses S. Grant took command. Other generals had focus...
18 Sep 20238min
