How To Be Content - The Search For The Good Life pt. 2
Nobody wrote about the “good life” more beautifully than Horace (65-8 BCE). In numerous writings, the Roman poet shared his wisdom on how to use virtue as a key to unlocking contentment and, therefore...
4 Dec 202224min
Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 2
In the second of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about his classic 1986 memoir Half The Way Home: A Memoir of F...
3 Dec 202255min
It's Not What Happens. It's How You Bear It. | Ask Daily Stoic
It doesn't matter who you are, the facts are the same. Marcus Aurelius was Emperor. Epictetus was a slave. Two different fates, but the same reality. Most of life, most situations are out of our contr...
2 Dec 202215min
The Only Thing New In The World | Pretend Today Is The End
We live in unprecedented times, we like to think. Our technology. Our conflicts. The state of the world. It’s all very new, it’s all very different.But is it though?Check out the Read To Lead Challeng...
1 Dec 20229min
Adam Hochschild on Our Obligation to the Common Good pt. 1
In the first of a two-part interview, Ryan speaks with one of the great non-fiction writers and historians of our time, Adam Hochschild, about how history can inform the push for change in the present...
30 Nov 202256min
The Best Stuff Is An Accidental Byproduct
In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius marvels at “nature’s inadvertence.” A baker, he writes, makes the dough, kneads it and then puts it in the oven. Then physics, then Nature takes over. “The way loaves o...
30 Nov 20224min
No One Can Take This Away | Why Seeking Out Challenges Will Change Your Life
“It is a vast kingdom to be able to cope without a kingdom,” Seneca wrote in his play, Thyestes. This was no mere word play. This was hard-won wisdom.No one can stop you from ruling over yourself. It’...
29 Nov 202211min
What We Owe Each Other | Balance The Books Of Life Daily
The Roman Empire at that time was enormous. Jobs were scarce. Unemployment was high. Rapid expansion and economic stagnation had led to a sort of economic recession–one not unlike the one that looms g...
28 Nov 202211min
