This Is The Greatest Pleasure | 9 Habits the Stoics Want You to Stop Doing
The Stoics were not afraid of joy, but they found joy in a different place than most people. It wasn’t pleasure. It wasn’t accumulating money. “Just as one person delights in improving his farm, and a...
20 Dec 202214min
You’re Not There Now (That’s A Good Thing) | Stake Your Claim
It’s easy to look at history and despair. Humans have been terrible to each other–going back to Marcus Aurelius’s time all the way through today. In fact, sometimes it feels like that’s all we’ve ever...
19 Dec 202210min
18 Things You Didn’t Know About Marcus Aurelius
It is amazing that Meditations, year after year and read after read, feels both incredibly timely and incredibly timeless (there’s a reason the book has endured now for almost twenty centuries). It’s ...
18 Dec 202218min
Jeremy Jones on Quieting the Mind and Confronting Fear with Snowboarding
Ryan speaks with snowboarder Jeremy Jones about his new book The Art of Shralpanism: Lessons from the Mountains, why having discipline on the mountain saves lives, the relationship between courage and...
17 Dec 20221h 8min
Find a Way To Use It | Ask Daily Stoic
It would be nice to be a comedian, wouldn’t it? Not because it might make you rich and famous, though that would be nice. But rather, for the opportunity it would afford to turn all the things that bo...
16 Dec 202214min
Difficult Things Are Good For You | A Simple Way To Measure Our Days
When one thinks of a philosopher, they usually picture something like an ancient figure in a toga, or they think of a college professor in a tweed jacket. They don’t think of an athlete. They don’t th...
15 Dec 20229min
Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski on the Wonder and Discipline of Mr. Rogers
Ryan speaks with authors Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski about their new book When You Wonder, You're Learning: Mister Rogers' Enduring Lessons for Raising Creative, Curious, Caring Kids, how hard Mr. R...
14 Dec 20221h 8min
You Can't Give Up
A new year is fast approaching, and it's that time of year in which some people will try again and some people won't.Which will it be? Who will you be?For those of you ready for a change, we are back ...
14 Dec 20224min
