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
How To Become Rich | Watch Over Your Perceptions
The writers Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five) and Joseph Heller (Catch-22) were at a glamorous party outside New York City. Standing in the palatial second home of the billionaire host, Vonnegut beg...
13 Feb 20239min
How to Enjoy Life Fully
Today’s reading features an excerpt from The Way to Love: The Last Meditations of Anthony de Mello. Anthony was an Indian Jesuit priest, psychotherapist, and spiritual teacher, writer, and public spea...
12 Feb 202320min
Dr. Samantha Boardman on Turning Stress in Strength
Ryan speaks with Dr. Samantha Boardman about her book Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress into Strength, how you can improve your life by changing small daily habits, why feeling stressed is not necessa...
11 Feb 20231h 7min
