Alive Time or Dead Time. What Will It Be?
Here you are, stuck indoors, stuck somewhere you don’t want to be. Maybe also you’re stuck because you’re 17 going on 30. Maybe also you’re stuck because you’ve got another two years left on your enli...
28 Mar 20203min
Ask Daily Stoic - How Do I Use Stoicism To Fend Off Negativity?
Ryan talks about the Edmund Morrison biography of Thomas Edison, reads a passage from The Obstacle is the Way (on sale for a few more days), and fields more questions from his readers and fans.See Pri...
28 Mar 202018min
When Things Are Tough, Remember This
Most languages have some expression to the effect of “When it rains, it pours.” For instance, in Latin malis mala succedunt means troubles are followed by troubles. In Japanese, they say, “when crying...
27 Mar 20203min
No One Escapes This Law
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)...
26 Mar 20203min
We All Have Flaws… What Matters is What We Do With Them
Jeannie Gaffigan is a control freak. She takes charge. She cares about the little things and getting those things right. She always has. It’s hard to argue that this part of her personality hasn’t ser...
25 Mar 20205min
You Can Seize This Moment
This is an email we weren’t expecting to send, but sometimes sudden events call for sudden responses. Right now you, and much of the world, are locked down, doing your part to fight the spread of COVI...
24 Mar 20205min
The World Is Trying To Teach You
This was all pretty sudden, wasn’t it? The economy was chugging along. Life was going well. We had travel plans. We had work plans. We had things we were doing. We had a sense for what we’d do next. A...
23 Mar 20202min
Daily Stoic Sundays: You Don’t Control What Happens, You Control How You Respond
In today's episode, Ryan reads his piece from March 12, "Remember: You Don’t Control What Happens, You Control How You Respond." He discusses how to stay safe amidst the COVID-19 pandemic—and how to t...
22 Mar 20208min
