There Are Dreams That Cannot Be | 9 Habits The Stoics Want You To Stop Doing
Marcus Aurelius certainly hoped his reign would be peaceful and prosperous–as the fates had blessed his mentor Antoninus for 23 years. Certainly, he dreamed of growing old with all his children around...
18 Apr 202311min
It Works If You Work It | Impulse Control
It's felt like things have been a little off lately. You have been irritable. You have been stressed. You have been easily rattled by external events, you have been focusing on things outside your con...
17 Apr 20238min
We Can Always Be Born Again | The Life of Zeno
In the year 33, a philosopher was executed by the Roman authorities. This was not an uncommon thing back then.But this man, referred to as Christus in Tacitus’ writing, l was first beaten and then aft...
16 Apr 202342min
Molly Bloom on Trusting the Process and Making Daily Progress
Ryan speaks with Molly Bloom in-person at the new Daily Stoic podcast studio in the second of a two-part conversation, the first of which was conducted virtually. Today, they discuss the power of unde...
15 Apr 20231h 18min
Pain Is A Part Of Life | Become An Expert In What Matters
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book **The Daily Dad.**“Even though you have these powers free and entirely your own, you don’t use them, because you still don’t realize what you have or...
14 Apr 20237min
This is What Winners Do | Ask DS
In April 1960, the writer Richard Whalen was trying to meet with Diane Nash and the sit-in students for a Time Magazine cover story. These young college students had suddenly become the focus of an im...
13 Apr 202311min
Don’t Suffer In Advance
There is a balance to Stoicism between awareness and anxiety. The Stoics want you to be prepared for an uncertain—and oftentimes dangerous—future, but somehow not worry about it at the same time. They...
12 Apr 20232min
Timothy Egan on Extremism and Fear
Ryan speaks with Timothy Egan about his new book A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them, how and why politics and extremism often operat...
12 Apr 20231h 6min
