If You’re Going To Make Something, Make It Beautiful
“Fifty years after he helped his father build a fence around their house in Mountain View, Steve Jobs took his biographer Walter Isaacson to see it. Jobs skimmed his hand along one of the fence panels...
7 Juni 20216min
Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato - Ch. 1
Today’s episode is an excerpt from Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato by Rob Goodman and Jimmy Soni. This chapter deals with the early life of Cato, how he survived in a Roman culture th...
6 Juni 202152min
Luke Burgis on Mimetic Desire and Getting What You Want in Life
On today’s episode Ryan talks to author Luke Burgis about his new book Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life, the philosophy of French polymath René Girard, getting to the truth of wha...
5 Juni 20211h 5min
These Things Don’t Care
“The virus doesn’t care. It doesn’t care that you were just about to open your first retail shop. It doesn’t care that you love visiting your grandmother. It doesn’t care that you recently finished ch...
4 Juni 20212min
This Is What You Replace Anger With | It Is Well to Be Flexible
“The Stoics weren’t robots. It wasn’t that they stuffed things down, or that they didn’t feel anything. How could that have been true? They were husbands and fathers, wives and daughters. They wrote b...
3 Juni 20218min
Chris Bosh on Embracing the Process and Staying Present | This Cannot Be Allowed To Happen
Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to Chris Bosh about his new book Letters To A Young Athlete, what he learned winning multiple NBA Championships, the importance of having a diverse range of int...
2 Juni 20211h 15min
Take The Interior Voyage
“Have you ever noticed that we often refer to Marcus Aurelius just as Marcus? You likely read those references without breaking stride. Because you, like us, feel connected to Marcus. So much so that ...
1 Juni 20213min
To What Do You Pledge Your Honor? | The View from Above
“As the Founders signed the Declaration of Independence, they knew that this wasn’t some painless petition. This wasn’t some minor political stand. No, they knew, as they wrote, they were mutually ple...
31 Maj 20218min
