What Will This Cause? | Ask Daily Stoic
When horrible things happen to us, our instinct is always to ask why me? Why this? Why now? It’s understandable, but it’s also irrelevant and unhelpful, because those questions have no answer. At leas...
9 Feb 20238min
John Hendrickson on Embracing Disability with Stoicism
Ryan speaks with John Hendrickson about his new book Life on Delay: Making Peace with a Stutter, how Stoicism and Ryan’s work influenced him to open up about his stuttering, how stuttering being diagn...
8 Feb 20231h 6min
Turn To This Friend Constantly
In her beautiful book about the Los Angeles Public Library fire, Susan Orlean captures the magic of what libraries can offer. She describes walking through the empty library in Downtown L.A., not a so...
8 Feb 20232min
Have You Considered This? | What Stoicism Can Teach Us About Mental Health
Things go wrong. We get screwed over. We make mistakes. It happens. The idea that it shouldn’t affect a Stoic? Preposterous. No amount of training, Seneca writes, takes away natural feelings. So it’s ...
7 Feb 20239min
You Must Practice This Ritual This Year | Suspend Your Opinions
Marcus Aurelius was a busy man. He was a smart and able and talented man. So why did he need to spend so many precious hours in his tent, writing by the lamplight, practicing philosophy in his journal...
6 Feb 20239min
Epicurus’s Key to the Good Life
Today, Ryan presents a reading of Epicurus’s Letter to Menoeceus in which the philosopher and father of Epicureanism lays out to his friend why he believes that living a life of pleasure based on virt...
5 Feb 202317min
MLB All-Star Ian Happ on the Power of Discipline
Ryan speaks with Ian Happ about how practicing Stoic principles helps him play better baseball, the mindset of a professional athlete, how he uses discipline to overcome self-doubt, and more.Ian Happ ...
4 Feb 20231h 4min
Why Did Marcus Write His Meditations? | The Source of Your Anxiety
Why did Marcus Aurelius write his Meditations? It wasn’t for an audience. It wasn’t simply to practice his Greek or his rhetorical abilities—he was already good at all those things. The book lacks an ...
3 Feb 20239min
