It’s Going To Take A While, So You Need To Do This | Ask DS
It takes a lot of flying time to become a certified pilot. It takes years on stage for a comedian to learn how to command an audience. It takes time to get sober, time in therapy to heal a marriage. N...
10 Aug 202315min
Kevin Rose On Staying Healthy With Entrepreneurship, Zen Buddhism, And Being Vulnerable
Ryan speaks with Kevin Rose about the pros and cons of his entrepreneurial drive, the calming effects of reducing the amount of stuff that you have, the overlap between Zen Buddhism and Stoicism, the ...
9 Aug 20231h 24min
This Is The Most Dangerous Vice
“The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better.”Over 10,000 readers have highlighted that passage in the Kindle edition of Ego is the Enemy.The r...
9 Aug 20232min
The Secret To Happiness | How To Let Go And Stop Worrying (10 Stoic Tips)
What is the secret to happiness?It’s not an easy question to answer. And it might seem like the Stoics wouldn’t have a good answer either. Because it might seem like they didn’t have much fun, or expe...
8 Aug 202312min
We’re Broken…But Not Fixed | What Little Wins Can You Find?
We all have bad habits. Some of us procrastinate. Nearly all of us, as Seneca said, are slaves to something–food or sex or booze or ambition. We don’t work as hard as we should, or we work too hard. W...
7 Aug 20238min
How Stoicism, Eastern Philosophy, And Fitness Work Together
In the spirit of sharing ideas and learning from cultures outside of one’s own, Ryan was excited when he was given the opportunity to speak to India-based fitness company Curefit Healthcare because it...
6 Aug 202327min
Leonard Mlodinow On The Poetry, Power, And Beautiful Challenge Of Physics
Ryan speaks with Leonard Mlodinow about his book Feynman's Rainbow: A Search for Beauty in Physics and in Life, how physicists deal with imposter syndrome and egotism, whether there is truth in physic...
5 Aug 20231h 4min
You Have To Know Where You’re Going | No Blame, Just Focus
We know we want to go somewhere. We want to do something. We want to be successful. We want to win. We know we want to start something–a company, a creative project, a movement.Or perhaps we want just...
4 Aug 20239min
