Are You Willing To Be Taught? | 11 Stoic Books That Will Improve Your Life
Wisdom isn’t just what you seek out. In fact, much of the most important wisdom we learn in life seeks us out. The piece of unsolicited advice from someone who has been in our position. The painful co...
5 Dec 202315min
It’s Happening, Page By Page, Day By Day | Be Stingy With Time
It doesn’t feel like much. It’s just a perfunctory part of the morning. A little bit of tidying up, a way to get a little dose of inspiration. A way to keep track of the date. But as you tear the page...
4 Dec 202310min
Lives Of The Stoics |Marcus Aurelius The Philosopher King
Marcus Aurelius was chosen by Emporer Hadrian to be his eventual successor. In 161, Aurelius took control of the Roman Empire along with his brother Verus. War and disease threatened Rome on all sides...
3 Dec 202341min
Kate Flannery on the Rise and Fall of American Apparel (PT 1)
On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with author Kate Flannery on Dov Charney and their early journey at American Apparel, the evolution of feminism, imposter syndrome vs being qu...
2 Dec 20231h 8min
Joy Even So (Part 2) | Pretend Today Is The End
On his way to work each day in Boston, John Adams would hear a man singing. As his great biographer David McCollough writes in John Adams, it was a beautiful, almost joyful song that inspired him as h...
1 Dec 20237min
Don't Let Them Turn You Into This | Ask DS
In Book 7 of Meditations, Marcus writes to himself (as the Gregory Hays translation, which you can grab a special edition of here, has it):"Take care that you don't treat inhumanity as it treats human...
30 Nov 202320min
Do You Really Like This?
People say they love learning. And sure, they pick up books and go to museums and watch documentaries, and yes, they sat through their college courses. But this is only superficial evidence of a true ...
29 Nov 20232min
Whitney Cummings on Finding Inspiration and Being Relentlessly Present (Pt 2)
On today’s episode of the Daily Stoic podcast Ryan speaks with Whitney Cummings, comedian, actress, writer, producer, director, entrepreneur, and host of the hit podcast “Good for You". In part 2 of 2...
29 Nov 20231h 8min
