They Felt This Weight | Don't Make Things Harder Than They Need To Be
It’s easy for academics and critics to dismiss the Stoics as depressing or dark. They’re not wrong, exactly, because it’s true: There are some dark and depressing passages in Meditations. Seneca is no...
16 Feb 20248min
Do This. It’s Enough. | Ask Ds
As John Adams (detailed in David McCullough’s amazing biography) wrote in his own old age, “You are not singular in your suspicions that you know but little. The longer I live, the more I read, the mo...
15 Feb 202414min
Colin Elliott On The Art Of Navigating Lessons From History To The Modern World
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with economic and social historian Colin Elliott. They delve into the complexities surrounding the societal response to the COVID-19 pandemic, dr...
14 Feb 20241h 21min
Get Narrow Before Life Does
It’s interesting that these three great Stoics spent their final moments not as lone wolves but as friends, as fathers, as people who loved their fellow human beings. On a recent episode of The Daily ...
14 Feb 20243min
Don’t Let It Change You | How To Actually Be Happier In 2024 (According to the Stoics)
So eventually a group of corrupt Romans contrived to have Cato assigned to a posting in Cyprus, a veritable hotbed of misdeeds and sin. It was a place where politicians got rich, where they had fun, w...
13 Feb 202416min
You Are An Artist (Whether You Know It Or Not) | Watch Over Your Perceptions
Maybe you don’t see yourself as an artist, just like Socrates didn’t see himself as an athlete, but maybe you are. According to Mikel Jollett, the founder of the band The Airborne Toxic Event and the ...
12 Feb 20248min
How To Plan Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius
In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan reminds us How To Plan Your Day Like Marcus Aurelius by the way of voice actor Michael Reid. Two millennia ago, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aur...
11 Feb 202417min
Author Evelyn McDonnell On Joan Didion’s Life and Legacy (Pt 2)
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan continues his conversation with writer, academic and associate professor of journalism, Evelyn McDonnell. Together they discuss the obstacles and how t...
10 Feb 202457min
