How To Achieve Things | Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
It’s always been difficult to concentrate. In one of his letters, Seneca talks about trying to write while Rome resounds beneath him with cacophony. There are street sellers and protestors and a fight...
20 Feb 20238min
How to Create Change in Your Life
Today’s audiobook reading features the second excerpt from The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello. Anthony was an Indian Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, and spiritual teacher, write...
19 Feb 202313min
Sam Harris on Stoicism and Mindfulness Practice
Ryan speaks with Sam Harris about the overlap between eastern and western philosophy, how mindfulness practices like meditation help us become better Stoics, why he is so dedicated to providing his co...
18 Feb 20231h 9min
Just Put It On My Tab | The Enemy of Happiness
Life was just one thing after another for Marcus Aurelius. The plague. The flooding. The wars. He did not meet with, “the good fortune he deserved,” one ancient historian noted, “as his whole reign wa...
17 Feb 20238min
This Isn’t The Way To Practice Detachment | Ask Daily Stoic
Seneca wasn’t fond of philosophers you could recognize. Not by their fame, but by their uniform. In his time, just as it is in ours, there was a type of person who, in reading about the Diogenes types...
16 Feb 202316min
Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters
Ryan speaks with Professor Massimo Pigliucci about his new book The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders, what Alcibiades’s magne...
15 Feb 202355min
How To Be Free
Ruby Doris Smith died at age 25 of cancer. It was an unfair death, concluding a short, unfair life. For two and half decades on this earth – from 1942 to 1967 – she experienced the brutal day-to-day r...
15 Feb 20234min
The Right Time Is Right Now | The Virtue That Made Marcus Aurelius So Great
We know what we want to do–or need to do. We need to quit that job. We need to have that hard conversation. We need to be more active in our community. We need to stop smoking or start eating healthy....
14 Feb 202316min
