The Most Human Thing You Can Do | Ask Daily Stoic
Years before he became president, Harry Truman owned a haberdashery that doubled as a local hang-out. A kid named Albert Ridge would often head there after his shift at the neighborhood grocery store....
18 Nov 202212min
Small Things Are No Small Thing | Judge Not, Lest…
George Washington’s favorite saying was “many mickles make a muckle.” It was an old Scottish proverb that illustrates a truth we all know: things add up. Even little ones. Even at the pace of one per ...
17 Nov 202210min
Clinical Psychologist Dr. Sue Johnson on Building Lasting Relationships
Ryan talks to clinical psychologist, couples therapist, and author Dr. Sue Johnson about how Stoicism and Emotionally Focused Therapy complement and enrich each other, what psychology can teach us abo...
16 Nov 20221h 5min
Time has a Way of Humbling Us
In several of Seneca’s letters he speaks about the power of bloodletting as a medical practice. In one, he actually remarks—with some superiority—how earlier generations had not yet discovered bloodle...
16 Nov 20223min
Where Is Your Command Center? | Casey Neistat's 10 Stoic Practices (For Productivity)
We get all sorts of messages. From the world. From social media. From other people. From our bodies. The question–the great difficulty of life–is gathering, deciphering and deciding which of these mes...
15 Nov 202224min
This Is Nothing To Brag About | Judge Yourself Not Others
Oh, you’ve read the works of Heidegger? You finished all of Infinite Jest? You made it through all of Jordan Peterson’s Maps of Meaning, all of Faulkner’s lesser works, Finnegan’s Wake and Ulysses?You...
14 Nov 202211min
The Virtue That Made Marcus Aurelius So Great
Marcus Aurelius did not come out of the womb a leader. Nor was he an emperor ‘by blood.’ In fact, when first told he was to be king, he wept—thinking of all the bad and failed kings of history. So how...
13 Nov 202217min
Yung Pueblo on How to Measure What Actually Matters in Life
Ryan talks to the poet Yung Pueblo about his new book Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect with the Present, and Expand the Future, why servicing the common good is the most valuable metric to measure...
12 Nov 202259min
