This Is Why You Shouldn’t Be Jealous | A Proper Frame Of Mind
Imagine the jealousy that they must have felt. Hadrian was gifting the purple—the job of the emperor—to a teenager he wasn’t even related to. In 138 AD, his succession plan involved adopting Antoninus...
2 Feb 20248min
Until You Get There, Try This | Ask DS
Maybe towards the end, it’s possible to get to that level. Maybe after a lifetime of study and practice, a Stoic can come to not just understand but to live up to the insight that Marcus Aurelius writ...
1 Feb 20248min
Surrender But Don’t Give Yourself Away
The fact of life is that we’re going to get tossed around by forces outside our control. Never forget fortunes’ habit of behaving exactly as she pleases, Seneca reminds us, never forget that adversity...
31 Jan 20242min
Dr. Michael Gervais on Not Caring What People Think and the Future of Stoicism (Pt 1)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan is joined by Dr. Michael Gervais, one of the world’s top high-performance psychologists and leading experts on the relationship between the mind and hu...
31 Jan 202458min
Follow Your Arrow | 7 Stoic Keys To Being A Great Leader (Ryan Holiday Speaks To The U.S. Military)
They were different. Some of them were downright weird. Cleanthes made quite a spectacle of himself in Athens, a philosopher who did manual labor for a living. Cato walked around bareheaded and barefo...
30 Jan 202427min
Everything Is A Kind Of Dying | A Little Better Every Day
Marcus Aurelius knew this, but he didn’t let it get him down. In fact, he found some reassurance in it. “When we cease from activity, or follow a thought to its conclusion,” he observed, “it is a kind...
29 Jan 20249min
How To Be A Leader | Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
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...
28 Jan 202420min
Adam Nicolson On The Rule Of Philosophy & Greek Mythology
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with English author Adam Nicolson on greek mythology, real meaning of the oceans, travel, the grand question about philosophy, that what really m...
27 Jan 20241h 5min
