James Outman On Why Baseball Is Stoicism
Ryan speaks with James Outman on why he believes that baseball and Stoicism both promote the same practices, why baseball players are uniquely prepared to deal with failure, how practicing the Stoic m...
16 Sep 20231h 4min
This Is a Bad Way To Drive (and Live) | A Garden Is Not For Show
With the proliferation of dashcams and the spread of social media, we see these clips everywhere. It’s basically its own genre of video at this point. A driver is frustrated with someone going too slo...
15 Sep 20236min
How You Endure It Matters Most | Ask DS
No one knows what the future holds, but if it’s anything like the present or the past, it will not be easy. Things will not go our way. Tragedies will happen. Injustices will be inflicted upon us. Ins...
14 Sep 202318min
Adrian Grenier On Recovering From Being Famous
Ryan speaks with Adrian Grenier in the second of a two-part episode about what it’s really like to be famous, why and how he quit acting, how Adrian’s lifestyle was shaped for the worse by his role on...
13 Sep 20231h 24min
Who Do You See?
We don’t think of the ancient Romans as living just like us, but in many ways they did. A recent archaeological dig in Bulgaria found a Roman estate with a collection of household mirrors. In the 1st ...
13 Sep 20232min
Good Leaders Give This | 10 Rules For Life From The Stoics
General Victor Krulak was an exacting Marine. He drove his troops hard. He cared about the tiniest details. He expected perfection. So you might think he would be upset–or at least disappointed–when a...
12 Sep 20238min
Bring Love To Every Situation You Face | A New Way To Pray
On this day 22 years ago, Brian Sweeney was a passenger trapped on hijacked United Airlines Flight 175. He knew something was wrong, but he could not have fully understood that he and so many others w...
11 Sep 20238min
How Stoicism Makes Coaches Better
Today, Ryan presents a talk he gave to a group of coaches at the Tennessee Athletics Department about the core concepts of Stoicism and how they can apply them to their coaching practices in order to ...
10 Sep 202324min
