Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers: How To Be Content - The Problem of Passion Pt. 1
For many people, happiness is associated with contentment: being around family, enjoying work, having enough. But what are the secrets to obtaining a contented life in a world of materialistic excess ...
27 Nov 202218min
Holocaust Survivor Dr. Edith Eger on Forgiving Over And Over Again
Ryan talks to mother-daughter duo Drs. Edith Enger and Marianne Engle about their work in clinical psychology, the power of spreading kindness in a world that often seems very cruel, letting go of the...
26 Nov 20221h 1min
What To Do With What You’ve Been Given | Ask Daily Stoic
Yesterday we took a minute to think of all that we have to be grateful for, all the blessings life has bestowed on us–even if those things didn’t always appear to be blessings at the time. Well, today...
25 Nov 202217min
Convince Yourself That Everything Is A Gift | Train To Let Go Of What’s Not Yours
Today in America is Thanksgiving. It’s the day when we’re supposed to actively practice gratitude, and be thankful for all that we have. Yet this can be hard to do…when the specter of a World War loom...
24 Nov 202210min
Professor Jennifer Baker on Understanding Modern Stoicism
Ryan talks to Professor Jennifer Baker about her approach to teaching Stoicism, ethics, and political theory at the College of Charleston, what the Stoics might have said about driving a Mercedes inst...
23 Nov 20221h 7min
Pity Is More Appropriate Than Anger
At the beginning of Meditations, Marcus Aurelius laments the kind of people he’s going to meet each day—the bitter, the stupid, the jealous, the petty. Throughout the book he mentions other undesirabl...
23 Nov 20223min
This Is The Day | How Stoicism Can Make You Happier
This is what we tell ourselves: Someday I will write my book. Someday I will travel abroad. Someday I will learn how to play guitar.But someday soon, you will no longer be able to say, “someday…”---“A...
22 Nov 202211min
The Last Words Of Marcus Aurelius | Practice Letting Go
It’s one of the most haunting paintings you’ll ever see. More than 11 feet wide and 8 feet tall, painted in rich but dark oils, Eugene Delacroix (a student of the Stoics) captures Marcus Aurelius at t...
21 Nov 202211min
