This Timeless Adage Will Determine Your Destiny | Respect The Past, But Be Open To The Future
This is not another note about memento mori.It’s about a different immutable, inescapable law of human existence that comes to us from the Stoics through Heraclitus (one of Marcus Aurelius’ favorites)...
25 Aug 20239min
Be This Kind Of Person | Ask DS
In matters of law, Cato was a stickler. In matters of principle, Cato was uncompromising. His opponents found him exhausting. Even some of his friends thought he was impossible.Yet as we wrote about r...
24 Aug 202316min
Christina Pazsitzky On Teaching Comedians Philosophy
Ryan speaks with Christina Pazsitzky in the first of a two-part interview about her new Netflix comedy special Mom Genes, why she believes that comedians should go to college to study philosophy, how ...
23 Aug 20231h 7min
This Is Real Power
Seneca, Cato, and Marcus Aurelius operated in the real world. They navigated within and around the halls of power. They had people working above and below them, and they needed to figure out how to mo...
23 Aug 20233min
The Biggest Lie In The World | Toxic Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
You may well have said it yesterday, or overheard someone else saying it, “Oh, I’ll do it in the morning…I’ll do it after I wake up…I’ll get to it later…I just need to do this other thing first.”It’s ...
22 Aug 20238min
This Is How They Found Peace and Priority | Just Say No To Future Misery
An explorer at Jamestown in the 17th century.A London gentleman during the Stuart Period.An unidentified person with the initials T.S. who lived during the Renaissance.Another with the initials E.R. w...
21 Aug 202310min
The Life Of Chrysippus "The Fighter" From Lives Of The Stoics
Known as the “Second Founder of Stoicism,” Chrysippus was a philosophical giant as revered as he was controversial. Today, Ryan reads from his book Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to ...
20 Aug 202324min
Paul Kix On The Civil Rights Movement And What It Means To Be Courageous
Ryan speaks with Paul Kix about his new book You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America, how Ryan helped him shape his writing career aft...
19 Aug 20231h 31min
