The Daily Stoic

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Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus shared the same DNA. They, like all fathers and sons, probably shared some of the same tendencies and weaknesses. So how did they turn out so differently?

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Ten years after publishing The Daily Stoic, Ryan shares what he’s learned, what he missed, and what he sees differently now.

You read a page in the morning. You think about it. You take it into your day. Maybe it helps you catch yourself before you lose your temper. Maybe it reminds you to stop worrying about something you can’t control. Maybe it gives you the push to do something you’ve been avoiding. Then you return to the next page the next morning.

It might help you stay in the game. It might make you successful. It might even keep you alive. It worked for Seneca, right?

The whole point of Stoicism is that you’re supposed to keep progressing, keep examining yourself, keep practicing, keep getting a little better, “keep learning,” as Seneca wrote, “to the end of your life.”

You’d expect the psychologist behind the bestselling book Gritto tell you to try harder, but Angela Duckworth knows why that isn’t always the answer. In today’s episode, the University of Pennsylvania professor and MacArthur Fellow joins Ryan to discuss her new book, Situated, why certain people and places bring out our best, what she misunderstood about her own marriage, how we give away control of ...

You could spend a lot of time and money earning an MBA, or you could start with these books that will change how you think about business, leadership, and success.

You can see it happening to the trees. You can feel it in the air. It’s fall.

That’s how this conversation survives. Someone reads something. Thinks about it. Shares it. Helps another person see something they might have missed.

In this bonus episode, Ryan answers questions about handling other people’s opinions, toxic masculinity, keeping your ego in check, politics, and cancel culture. Have a question for Ryan? Bring it to one of his upcoming live shows!

It might be important to you. It might be long-planned. Maybe it’s unfinished business. Maybe lives even depend on it. But you know what? Life doesn’t care.

You might have a great idea, some success, or the confidence to risk everything. But you still have something to learn.

Human beings are human beings. We have the same weaknesses. We have the same tendencies. We have the same potential.

Nobody would choose most of the difficulties and troubles that they face. The question is how do you react when you get those difficulties and troubles anyway?

We’re not the first culture to burn out and dream of getting away from it all. But the Stoics understood why the life you’re trying to escape has a way of following you.

From the California Gold Rush to the railroad boom to Silicon Valley, the promise of instant riches keeps convincing us that this time will be different. Nathaniel Philbrick, a bestselling author and National Book Award winner whose work explores the forces that shaped America, joins Ryan to talk about his new book, The Rush, and explore the unsettling parallels between the California Gold Rush and Silicon Valley. They also ...

We have power of movement—literally and figuratively—that not everyone has, that we ourselves might not get forever, either.

Everyone has a book that changed their life. But how long has it been since you first read the book that hit you so hard?