Stoicism Is Not A Form Of Self-Flagellation
Seneca was a very rich man. He had nice stuff. Critics at the time, and ever since, have found this to be indisputable proof of his hypocrisy. How can a Stoic have expensive ivory tables? Isn’t it unp...
26 Okt 20223min
It’s Beyond Arrogant | 6 Insanely Useful Stoic Questions
Human beings have been putting things off for as long as there have been things to do. We tell ourselves we’ll do it when we’re older, after we finish, when we have more time, when the seasons change....
25 Okt 202213min
This Book Was Not Meant For Us | Build Up, Don’t Tear Down
There are very few books like it. Certainly, none written by someone in such an unusual position.You see, Meditations was not meant to be a book for the reader, it was a book for the author. In Greek,...
24 Okt 202211min
Musonius Rufus Stoic Fragments: PT 1
This episode comes out for free on 10/23/22. Today’s episode features two sections from the lesser known Musonius Rufus Stoic Fragments: That Man Is Born With An Inclination Toward Virtue and That Wom...
23 Okt 202217min
Maya Smart on Transforming Education and the Power of Reading
This episode comes out for free on 10/22/22.Ryan talks to Maya Smart about her new book Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Birth to Six (which you can pick up at the Painted Porch Book...
22 Okt 20221h 7min
The Truly Wise Make Time For Leisure | Ask Daily Stoic
Leisure is one of those words that modernity has terribly corrupted and misused. When most people hear it we think of lounging around doing nothing. We think of any activity absent of activity, as an ...
21 Okt 202212min
Is The World Going Through Hell? | Marks Of The Good Life
“It’s tough to be alive now,” the actor Timothée Chalamet recently said. “I think societal collapse is in the air — it smells like it.”It’s one of those lines that got picked up by dozens of media out...
20 Okt 20228min
Annie Duke on Knowing When to Quit
Ryan talks to World Series of Poker champion Annie Duke about her new book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, the power of walking away from things that don’t align with your beliefs, the i...
19 Okt 20221h 28min
