There is Only One Thing To Do | Don’t Hide From Your Feelings
It would be wonderful if the Stoics promised you some sort of breakthrough. One that solved for the messy divorce or the unfortunate bankruptcy. One that helped you rehab from the car accident or magi...
8 Dec 20229min
Professor Josiah Osgood on Cato, Caesar and the Battle for Rome's Legacy
Ryan speaks with historian of Rome Josiah Osgood about his new book Uncommon Wrath: How Caesar and Cato’s Deadly Rivalry Destroyed the Roman Republic, the complicated legacy of Cato, how Caesar and Ca...
7 Dec 20221h 4min
Passing Judgment Is No Way To Live
You don’t know that someone acted wrongly or that they totally screwed a situation up, because you don’t know the full story. You don’t know their reasons or their side of things. And what do the Stoi...
7 Dec 20224min
It’s Not A Bad Experience | Living Like A Stoic For 30 Days
A night spent at the airport. A prison sentence. A two week bout with COVID. The crazy rush of the busiest season of the year for your business. We know we’re in for it. We dread it. We curse our fate...
6 Dec 202223min
The Violence Of The Dog Days | Be Stingy With Time
As summer now passes into fall and all too quickly fall turns to winter, it is worth stopping and thinking for a second. Where did that time go? Not long ago you were watching fireworks and enjoying t...
5 Dec 202210min
How To Be Content - The Search For The Good Life pt. 2
Nobody wrote about the “good life” more beautifully than Horace (65-8 BCE). In numerous writings, the Roman poet shared his wisdom on how to use virtue as a key to unlocking contentment and, therefore...
4 Dec 202224min
Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 2
In the second of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about his classic 1986 memoir Half The Way Home: A Memoir of F...
3 Dec 202255min
It's Not What Happens. It's How You Bear It. | Ask Daily Stoic
It doesn't matter who you are, the facts are the same. Marcus Aurelius was Emperor. Epictetus was a slave. Two different fates, but the same reality. Most of life, most situations are out of our contr...
2 Dec 202215min
