For centuries, all sorts of people—generals and politicians, athletes and coaches, writers and leaders—have looked to the teachings of Stoicism to help guide their lives. Each day, author and speaker Ryan Holiday brings you a new lesson about life, inspired by the thoughts and writings of great Stoic thinkers like Marcus Aurelius and Seneca the Younger. Daily Stoic Podcast also features Q+As with listeners and interviews with notable figures from sports, academia, politics, and more. Learn more at DailyStoic.com.New episodes come out every day for free. Listen 1-week early on Wednesday, Saturday, and Sunday and to all episodes ad-free, with Wondery+ or Amazon Music with a Prime membership or Amazon Music Unlimited subscription.
2468 episodes transcribedToday Ryan talks with author and reporter David French about the balance between personal and civic responsibility, the ability to take criti...
"It’s always been tempting to talk a good game. People have been doing it for thousands of years. But today, it’s never been easier to t...
"What does a Stoic say to adversity? To recessions? To pandemics? To setbacks and struggles and months stuck inside? To uncertainty and...
"It’s easy to look at history and learn the wrong lesson. You see Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar and can’t help but connect their...
Today’s podcast features Ryan talking to the University of South Carolina Gamecocks football team, discussing how you can use Stoicism in a p...
Today Ryan talks with writer and historian Andrew Roberts about the process of writing about historical figures, the ways that character is t...
"It’s easy to think—given their spurning of so many of the pleasures that other people chase—that the Stoics didn’t want or like anythin...
"These are rough times. Then again, times are always rough for someone. If not for us, then for someone else. And according to the Stoic...
Today Ryan talks with Coby Karl, a former member of the Los Angeles Lakers and current head coach of the NBA G League’s South Bay Lakers. The...
"It’s key then, if you want to be good and do good, that you have a kind of North Star in your life that keeps you centered. A role mode...
"For thousands of years people have been turning to Stoicism when they had problems, big and small. Obviously you know that on some leve...
"Seneca wrote a lot of letters to his friend Lucilius. We don’t know a lot about Lucilius, only that he was from Pompeii, he was a Roman...
In today’s episode, Ryan reads his latest article about the unpredictability of life, and how we should always be prepared for the worst and...
In today’s episode, Ryan talks about the new box set (https://geni.us/A6gX) of his first three books on Stoicism. He reads from Seneca’s Lett...
"Here we are in tough times. A global pandemic has struck wide swaths of the population. Governments are struggling under the load. Econ...
"Like any person in power, any person in the public spotlight, any person striving to be great, Marcus struggled with caring too much ab...
"Maybe right now you’re stuck at home, maybe you’re not working. Your kids might be home with you. Certainly the normal way of doing thi...
In today’s episode, Ryan talks with his mentor, author and strategist Robert Greene. They discuss historical links to today’s pandemic, the 2...
"It seems crazy now, but amongst the Stoics in the ancient world there was once intense disagreement over whether philosophers should ha...
"It just doesn’t make sense, does it?They have every incentive in the world to get it right, and they can’t. They’re putting their own l...
