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
This Is What Will Happen To Your Accomplishments
Marcus Aurelius spent 14 years at war with the Marcomanni. It was a brutal, grinding campaign which he eventually won at great cost and risk. His victory was celebrated as a triumph, immortalized in a...
15 Nov 20232min
Steven Pressfield On Work Without Attachments (Part 2)
Ryan speaks with book athour & screenwriter Steven Pressfield on fewer possessions, superstition in memorabilia, the impact of working without any attachments to the outcome, and his new books The Dai...
15 Nov 20231h 6min
You Can’t Deny This |10 Stoic Tips For Being A Better Leader
Seneca thought he knew Nero. He was confident in his ability to teach or contain or even control him. Other Stoics knew better. Thrasea (whose story we tell in Lives of the Stoics) opposed him from th...
14 Nov 202316min
It’s All In How You See It | Judge Yourself Not Others
It’s fascinating to think of all these different translators sitting down and seeing this same bit of writing and having such wildly different interpretations. How much each one was a reflection of th...
13 Nov 20239min
