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.
2525 episodes transcribedMarcus Aurelius was smart. He was rich and powerful. He won wars and conquered territories.But that doesn’t explain why we are still talking...
Ghosts are, of course, a silly thing to believe in (Athenodorus’ ghost story notwithstanding). Yet the Stoics would not have scoffed at Elean...
In this excerpt Steven talks about the difference between an amatuer and a professional, the qualities that a professional expresses, and he...
Ryan talks to the anonymous Instagram poet Atticus about how modern media has distorted old ideas, his experience meeting the Dalai Lama, the...
The Stoics were not perfect. Nothing illustrates this more than Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Why would Marcus have to write reminders about...
History is a lie. It is written by the victors, as the saying goes. Which means the picture it produces is inherently biased by a particular...
Seneca was a very rich man. He had nice stuff. Critics at the time, and ever since, have found this to be indisputable proof of his hypocrisy...
This episode comes out for free on 10/26/22. Ryan talks to author and investor Kamal Ravikant about his recent near death experience, why the...
Human beings have been putting things off for as long as there have been things to do. We tell ourselves we’ll do it when we’re older, after...
There are very few books like it. Certainly, none written by someone in such an unusual position.You see, Meditations was not meant to be a b...
This episode comes out for free on 10/23/22. Today’s episode features two sections from the lesser known Musonius Rufus Stoic Fragments: That...
This episode comes out for free on 10/22/22.Ryan talks to Maya Smart about her new book Reading for Our Lives: A Literacy Action Plan from Bi...
Leisure is one of those words that modernity has terribly corrupted and misused. When most people hear it we think of lounging around doing n...
“It’s tough to be alive now,” the actor Timothée Chalamet recently said. “I think societal collapse is in the air — it smells like it.”It’s o...
People do a lot of things that feel mean. That frustrate us. That cause problems for us. That make the world a worse place. They vote for bad...
Ryan talks to World Series of Poker champion Annie Duke about her new book Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away, the power of walking...
Life throws stuff at us. We have to figure out how to catch it and throw it back. That’s what Epictetus meant when he said we don’t control w...
Each of us goes to work every day and deals with obstacles, with difficult people. We deal with stress at home. We have responsibilities in o...
Today’s episode is an excerpt from The Tao Of Seneca produced by Tim Ferriss’ Audio. Get the free PDF at tim.blog/seneca. In this letter Sene...
This episode comes out for free on 10/15/2022.Ryan talks to Steve Case about his new book The Rise of the Rest: How Entrepreneurs in Surprisi...
