It Was Terribly Unfair…Yet | Ask Daily Stoic
In 41 AD, Seneca was exiled from Rome. He was at the height of his senatorial career but found himself facing trumped up charges from a petty emperor who was driving him into the wilderness. He was re...
30 Dec 202213min
This Is The Year! | Give Thanks
We all have vices. We all have flaws. We all have things we know we want to change.Make this the year. This is the year you drive the bad habits out. This is the year you follow through. This is the y...
29 Dec 20229min
James Clear on How to Build Better Habits
Ryan talks with author James Clear about practical ways to shift your internal narrative, how to begin and maintain productive habitual action, being flexible with your goals as you set and achieve th...
28 Dec 202259min
Transcend Your First Impression
It’s perfectly reasonable to tremble in the face of danger, Donald Robertson writes in his wonderful book, How To Think Like a Roman Emperor, and it was likely that Cato and Marcus Aurelius were scare...
28 Dec 20223min
This Will Not Free You | The Secret To Better Habits in 2023
Seneca had money and privilege. Lots of it.Yet where did it get him?It didn’t save him from illness, or spare him from years of convalescence. Does this mean there is no advantage to having money? No....
27 Dec 20229min
How Much Longer Are You Going To Wait? | Turn Words Into Works
This is that weird time of year where we start to think about how we want the following year to go. We start thinking about what we call “resolutions”—the promises we make to ourselves about what we’r...
26 Dec 202210min
Habits and Addictions — Excerpt 2 from Steven Pressfield’s “Turning Pro”
Back in October, Ryan presented the first of four audiobook excerpts from Steven Pressfield’s “Turning Pro.” In this excerpt Steven talks about identifying and battling the habits and addictions that ...
25 Dec 202234min
Theranos Whistleblower Tyler Shultz on Doing the Right Thing and Overcoming Fear
Ryan speaks with Tyler Shultz about his new audiobook Thicker than Water, the harsh realities of being a whistleblower, how he overcame the fear of backlash from his decision to expose Theranos, Eliza...
25 Dec 20221h 14min
