What Comes Next Matters Less
It’s not that the Stoics didn’t love. It’s not that they didn’t like the nice stuff that they had or the jobs they had worked hard to earn. Of course, they liked these things and would have preferred ...
22 Nov 20232min
Timothy Denevi on the Power of Reading and Learning from the Past (Part 2)
Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi The economics of a book being different than the media, How much do you internalize the tumult and dange...
22 Nov 20231h 6min
It’s Not Romantic. It’s Just Work. |12 Ways Stoics Build Mental Strength And Resilience
We have a false picture about how success happens. We often only see the results and almost never the process of things, so we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape, being wis...
21 Nov 202317min
Put All Of Your Energy Into This | Practice Letting Go
Amazon tells us that’s one of the most highlighted passages in the digital version of Stillness is the Key. It’s an idea that’s impossible to disentangle from Stoicism. Epictetus said there were thing...
20 Nov 20239min
Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 4: On Progress
In today’s audiobook reading, Ryan presents an excerpt from one of the seminal texts of Stoicism, the Discourses of Epictetus, read by Michael Reid. As a series of lectures given by Epictetus that wer...
19 Nov 202310min
Timothy Denevi on Hunter S Thompson and the Art of Journalism (Part 1)
Ryan speaks with assistant professor and MFA program at George Mason University, Timothy Denevi on mastery in learning the entire playbook so that you can throw it away, How the information makes us b...
18 Nov 202358min
How To Make It Good | Judge Not, Lest…
Oscar Wilde was the victim of a terrible tragedy and a terrible injustice. At the height of his artistic powers, he was thrown in jail–an awful prison which contained the germs that later killed him. ...
17 Nov 20239min
What Do You See? | Ask Ds
A man walks through a field of flowing grain, the grass bending low under its own weight. The wind blows softly on a cold day. He looks and sees a small bird sitting on a branch, the steam rising off ...
16 Nov 202312min
