Don't Stuff Emotions Down
“The popular image of the Stoic is of the unfeeling beast. The tough person, gritting, gutting, it out. But this is wrong.”Ryan explains why you must let yourself feel.Sign up for the Daily Stoic emai...
23 Juli 20212min
Perfect Is Not The Goal | No One Has A Gun To Your Head
“In martial arts, the black belt is the highest level of the master. In religion, perhaps it’s the priest or even the saint. You can get a doctorate in philosophy, but that’s not really what the Stoic...
22 Juli 20216min
Author Phillip Barlag on Roman History’s Lessons for Modern Life | This is Where Your Temper Will Take You
Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author Phillip Barlag about the life and reign of the Roman Emperor Nero, the lessons that we can learn from Roman history, why Marcus Aurelius was selected ...
21 Juli 20211h 19min
Keep Returning Home
“You’ve experienced it. Maybe it was after your first semester away at college. Maybe it was after a long trip or a year-long tour of duty. Maybe it’s every time you return to your childhood home for ...
20 Juli 20212min
You Don’t Need To Be So Reachable | Practice Gentleness Instead of Anger
“Before telephones, before email, before the constant and instant forms of communication we all take for granted, mail was the lifeline of the world. When a mail ship would pull into port in Seneca’s ...
19 Juli 20219min
10 Pieces of Life Changing Wisdom From the Stoics
On today’s episode, Ryan breaks down 10 pieces of life changing wisdom from the Stoics. Stoicism has never been a philosophy for school. It's been a philosophy for life. That’s why the Stoic writings ...
18 Juli 202117min
NFL Cornerback Jeff Okudah on Achieving Greatness
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to NFL cornerback Jeff Okudah about how to manage high expectations and criticism, how to recover from injury and over-training, why reading is so importan...
17 Juli 20211h 21min
Can You Handle This?
“You did the right thing. You said what you thought. You produced something valuable. Yet here you are, a day, a month, a decade later, somehow having it all flipped against you. You’re being criticiz...
16 Juli 20211min
