In Spite Of Everything, We Must Do This | How Stoics Find And Build Deep Relationships
Marcus Aurelius must have wondered what he did to deserve all this. First, he lost his father at age three. Then he was pulled from his first love, philosophy, and pushed into politics. When he finall...
29 Aug 202310min
What Stoic Rules Make Life Less Erratic? | A Cure For Procrastination
Marcus Aurelius never claimed to be a Stoic.Gregory Hays, one of Marcus Aurelius’s best translators (the one we worked with on our beautiful premium edition), writes, “If he had to be identified with ...
28 Aug 20237min
Epictetus - Discourses Pt. 3: On Being Sprung From God
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...
27 Aug 20234min
Christina Pazsitzky On Appreciating The Miraculousness Of Existence
Ryan speaks with Christina Pazsitzky in the second of a two-part interview about what really matters in life, why studying history reveals how strange life is, enjoying what you have while you have it...
26 Aug 20231h 2min
This Timeless Adage Will Determine Your Destiny | Respect The Past, But Be Open To The Future
This is not another note about memento mori.It’s about a different immutable, inescapable law of human existence that comes to us from the Stoics through Heraclitus (one of Marcus Aurelius’ favorites)...
25 Aug 20239min
Be This Kind Of Person | Ask DS
In matters of law, Cato was a stickler. In matters of principle, Cato was uncompromising. His opponents found him exhausting. Even some of his friends thought he was impossible.Yet as we wrote about r...
24 Aug 202316min
Christina Pazsitzky On Teaching Comedians Philosophy
Ryan speaks with Christina Pazsitzky in the first of a two-part interview about her new Netflix comedy special Mom Genes, why she believes that comedians should go to college to study philosophy, how ...
23 Aug 20231h 7min
This Is Real Power
Seneca, Cato, and Marcus Aurelius operated in the real world. They navigated within and around the halls of power. They had people working above and below them, and they needed to figure out how to mo...
23 Aug 20233min
