Pain Is A Part Of Life | Become An Expert In What Matters
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book **The Daily Dad.**“Even though you have these powers free and entirely your own, you don’t use them, because you still don’t realize what you have or...
14 Apr 20237min
This is What Winners Do | Ask DS
In April 1960, the writer Richard Whalen was trying to meet with Diane Nash and the sit-in students for a Time Magazine cover story. These young college students had suddenly become the focus of an im...
13 Apr 202311min
Timothy Egan on Extremism and Fear
Ryan speaks with Timothy Egan about his new book A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, how and why politics and extremism often operat...
12 Apr 20231h 6min
Don’t Suffer In Advance
There is a balance to Stoicism between awareness and anxiety. The Stoics want you to be prepared for an uncertain—and oftentimes dangerous—future, but somehow not worry about it at the same time. They...
12 Apr 20232min
You Must Make This Shift | How Stoicism Helps You Deal With Big Challenges
Marcus Aurelius ruled over millions of people, and he didn't care what any of them thought about him. Well at least, he worked hard to not care about what any of them thought of him. We see that throu...
11 Apr 202311min
Have You Read The Books? | Test Your Impressions
We say we want to get better. We say we want to learn about this or that. We say we want to make a change. We say we’ve decided to get serious.But is this true?The Stoics had an expression: Acta non v...
10 Apr 20238min
Seneca on Being
In today’s episode, Ryan presents an excerpt from audiobook The Tao Of Seneca, which is essentially a compilation of the best of Seneca’s Moral Letters, a seminal text of Stoicism. In this letter, Sen...
9 Apr 202327min
Author Philipp Meyer on Channeling History, Philosophy and Failure into Art
Ryan speaks with Philipp Meyer about his novels American Rust and The Son, processing the morally questionable history of the American west through literature, how he battled through ten years of fail...
8 Apr 20231h 24min
