Discipline Now…Freedom Later | Pain Is Self-Inflicted Harm
At a critical moment in The Odyssey, Odysseus tied himself to the mast of his ship because he knew he wouldn’t be able to resist steering the ship toward the beautiful sound of the Sirens. In temporar...
26 Sep 20229min
Memento Mori: The Reminder You Desperately Need
Who wants to think about death?In his Meditations—essentially his own private journal—Marcus Aurelius wrote that “You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think.” Tha...
25 Sep 202254min
Ryan Lavarnway on Sports and Philosophy
Ryan talks to professional baseball catcher Ryan Lavarnway about his experience being the only professional baseball player with a philosophy degree from Yale, the intersection of sports and philosoph...
24 Sep 20221h 7min
This Is Why You Should Stick Around | Ask Daily Stoic
There are moments where things are so bad it can seem like they’ll never get better. Perhaps we’re young and being bullied. Or we’re in the midst of some massive rush of negative publicity–maybe we’re...
23 Sep 202215min
All That Matters Is How We Respond | No Pain No Gain
It was the great Athenian leader, Pericles, who said that there was nothing wrong with poverty. It could be caused by so many things—a business failure, the sudden loss of a family’s breadwinner, thef...
22 Sep 20228min
It's About Finding the Right Amount
When we hear the word “temperance,” C.S. Lewis observed, most of us in the modern world think of “abstinence.” Even when you look up the definition of abstinence, temperance is a synonym. But temperan...
21 Sep 20224min
Tim Miller on Political Games and Building Integrity
Ryan talks to political consultant and writer Tim Miller about his new book Why We Did It: A Travelogue from the Republican Road to Hell, the game of American politics, how to maintain integrity in yo...
21 Sep 20221h 14min
Don’t You See How Crazy This Is? | Discipline Is Destiny: Ruling Over Yourself
Sometimes things become so ordinary, such a normal part of life in polite society, that we fail to see how utterly insane they are. History is replete with these examples. Who would propose today that...
20 Sep 202231min
