You Can’t Be Fragile Like This | Ask DS
Cato, one of the most vaunted and towering Stoics, built a reputation and a career out of his refusal to give an inch in the face of pressure. He fought to keep Rome as it was, as it always had been. ...
31 Aug 202311min
Rainn Wilson On Stoicism’s Role In The Spiritual Revolution
Ryan speaks with Rainn Wilson about his new book Soul Boom: Why We Need a Spiritual Revolution, why the guy who played Dwight Schrute wrote a book on spirituality, how anyone can find a thread to the ...
30 Aug 20231h
We Can Go At Any Moment
It’s easy to nod along with a book (or even this email) when you’re reading it. Or to double-tap the like button when you see an inspiring Instagram post.But how long does this stay with you? How quic...
30 Aug 20235min
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
