Can You Fight To See Their Side? | Ask DS
One gets the sense that Seneca, like many smart and active people, was often frustrated by other people. It is inevitable that someone like him—someone creating art, actively participating in governme...
20 Apr 202311min
Comedian Katherine Blanford on Laughing At Life
Ryan speaks with Katherine Blanford about her earning things throughout her comedy career, her Catholic upbringing, why the funniest moments come from a dark place, how her mother influences her comed...
19 Apr 20231h 10min
To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book The Daily Dad (which you can preorder signed copies of now!).To Have A More Peaceful Home, Have Fewer Of These“These things are not asking to be judg...
19 Apr 20231min
There Are Dreams That Cannot Be | 9 Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
Marcus Aurelius certainly hoped his reign would be peaceful and prosperous–as the fates had blessed his mentor Antoninus for 23 years. Certainly, he dreamed of growing old with all his children around...
18 Apr 202311min
It Works If You Work It | Impulse Control
It's felt like things have been a little off lately. You have been irritable. You have been stressed. You have been easily rattled by external events, you have been focusing on things outside your con...
17 Apr 20238min
We Can Always Be Born Again | The Life of Zeno
In the year 33, a philosopher was executed by the Roman authorities. This was not an uncommon thing back then.But this man, referred to as Christus in Tacitus’ writing, l was first beaten and then aft...
16 Apr 202342min
Molly Bloom on Trusting the Process and Making Daily Progress
Ryan speaks with Molly Bloom in-person at the new Daily Stoic podcast studio in the second of a two-part conversation, the first of which was conducted virtually. Today, they discuss the power of unde...
15 Apr 20231h 18min
Pain Is A Part Of Life | Become An Expert In What Matters
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book **The Daily Dad.**“Even though you have these powers free and entirely your own, you don’t use them, because you still don’t realize what you have or...
14 Apr 20237min
