Have You Read The Books? | Test Your Impressions
We say we want to get better. We say we want to learn about this or that. We say we want to make a change. We say we’ve decided to get serious.But is this true?The Stoics had an expression: Acta non v...
10 Apr 20238min
Seneca on Being
In today’s episode, Ryan presents an excerpt from audiobook The Tao Of Seneca, which is essentially a compilation of the best of Seneca’s Moral Letters, a seminal text of Stoicism. In this letter, Sen...
9 Apr 202327min
Author Philipp Meyer on Channeling History, Philosophy and Failure into Art
Ryan speaks with Philipp Meyer about his novels American Rust and The Son, processing the morally questionable history of the American west through literature, how he battled through ten years of fail...
8 Apr 20231h 24min
Are You Showing Them How To Be A Student? | Expect To Change Your Opinions
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book The Daily Dad.If you think back to when you were a kid, what appeared to you to be the best part about being an adult? No more school. Our parents di...
7 Apr 20239min
Beware This Thief Of Time | Ask DS
Not long ago we talked about the Stoic view on punctuality. It’s a pretty simple one: Being on time is important. It’s a matter of respect, not just for oneself, but also for others. So what do you th...
6 Apr 202312min
Edith Hall on Aristotelian Ethics, Intention, and Human Decency
Ryan speaks with Edith Hall about why she wants to open up Aristotle’s works to the world at large, how Aristotle defined what a human being is and how one can be happy, the importance of doing what y...
5 Apr 202353min
You Need To Cultivate People Like This In Your Life
Where did Marcus learn to be Marcus? Ernest Renan writes that Marcus was very much a product of his training and his tutors. But more than his teachers and even his own parents, “Marcus had a single m...
5 Apr 20232min
Try To See The World This Way | Why Facing Death Is The Key To Success
After serving as an officer in Vietnam, Paul Woodruff decided to dedicate his life to teaching and writing about philosophy. He’s been a professor at the University of Texas at Austin since 1973. He’s...
4 Apr 202310min
