Magical Thinking Is Not Your Friend
"When things are hard, when things are scary, when we’re tired, when we’ve had a run of bad luck, that’s when it happens: Magical thinking kicks in.This will all be over soon, we convince ourselves. T...
23 Sep 20203min
There Is No “One Last Job”
"Just a few more years we tell ourselves. Just until I make enough money. After I make rank. Almost there. These are the lies we tell ourselves, the rationales for why we’re doing the thing we hate or...
22 Sep 20202min
You Can Use This, You Know.
"No one would have chosen this. No one is that crazy. To have your life disrupted. To be out of work. To lose money or people you love. To see institutions taxed beyond their capacities. To see people...
21 Sep 20203min
Daily Stoic Sundays: Seven Stoic Ways to Find a Better Life
In today's Sunday Podcast, Ryan goes over seven lessons for life that you can learn from the ancient Stoics (learn more about these philosophers in Ryan’s new book, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Liv...
20 Sep 202016min
Guy Raz — “How I Built This” and Solving Our Big Problems
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with How I Built This creator and host Guy Raz about how we deal with big collective action problems in an era of increased polarization, harnessing entrepre...
19 Sep 202041min
This Is What Cicero Missed
"On the surface, Cicero appears the perfect Stoic. He studied with all the right teachers. He served in office for decades. He was friends with Cato. Diodotus, the old Stoic philosopher, even died in ...
18 Sep 20203min
Some Folks You Just Can’t Reach
"It’d be wonderful if everyone could agree on some very basic things. Like, you can’t use racial slurs. And no, you shouldn’t judge a person for their gender or their sexual orientation. It’d be wonde...
17 Sep 20202min
Martellus Bennett - Super Bowl Champion on Finding Success
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with author and former NFL player Martellus Bennett about the clarifying effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on their day-to-day lives, how readers sh...
16 Sep 20201h 15min
