No, The World Is Not Conspiring Against You
“Sometimes it can feel like you’re surrounded by small-minded idiots. Especially when you’re trying to do something new, important, or good. All of a sudden, you’re dealing with insane red tape, incom...
9 Feb 20212min
There Is Nothing Beneath the Philosopher | Suspend Your Opinions
“We get it. You’ve worked hard. You’re a good person. You respect yourself. That’s why you’re frustrated to be in this job beneath your talents. It’s why you don’t like that your ideas aren’t getting ...
8 Feb 20218min
How To Use Stoicism To Control Your Anger
Anger is antithetical to Stoicism, so naturally, the Stoics had methods of dealing with it. In this video, Ryan Holiday walks us through the various tools Marcus Aurelius used to avoid anger. If you'd...
7 Feb 202111min
Jonathan Church On Terminal Cancer and Making Peace with Fate
On today’s episode, Ryan speaks to author and economist Jonathan Church about his brain cancer diagnosis, coming to terms with mortality through philosophy, the origin and nature of microaggressions, ...
6 Feb 20211h 2min
Is This What You Spend Your Life For?
“Early on in Address Unknown, a haunting novel about the rise of fascism in Germany in the 1930s, two German entrepreneurs write to each other with much affection about their business success. One lin...
5 Feb 20212min
You Don’t Have To Do This Anymore | On Being Invincible
“In one of the most vulnerable scenes in the Taylor Swift documentary on Netflix, Swift talks about how she feels while looking at a paparazzi photo of herself. Her lifelong habit she says, is to see ...
4 Feb 20216min
The Highway Don’t Care
“It doesn’t matter that you’re a safe driver. Or that you’ve always paid your taxes. It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for this. Or that you volunteer with poor blind kids after school.”Ryan di...
3 Feb 20212min
Bryan Doerries On the Power of Greek Tragedy and Seneca’s Plays
On today’s episode, Ryan speaks to writer Bryan Doerries about his work in familiarizing service members and veterans with ancient Greek plays, the military history of Greek playwrights, how the perfo...
3 Feb 20211h 2min
