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Can You Make It This Long? | How Stoics Find Balance In Their Life
Episode 1736
We’re supposed to put up with difficult people. We’re supposed to turn the other cheek. We’re supposed to find a way to smile through a tough situation. We’re supposed to be rational in a time of cra…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
How To Astonish and Inspire For Centuries | What's in Your Way Is The Way
Episode 1735
In Walter Isaacson’s wonderful biography of Leonardo Da Vinci, he spends a lot of time dissecting and exploring the ideas in Da Vinci’s notebooks. As Isaacson observed of Da Vinci’s lifelong habit of…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
The Most Beautiful Model Of A Perfect Life
Episode 1729
Marcus Aurelius’s father died when he was young. But then this young boy who was cursed by tragedy received a great gift. A gift that all children who have received it know to be one of the most incr…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
Sam Gwynne On Progress, War, And Zeppelins
Episode 1728
Ryan speaks with Sam Gwynne about his new book His Majesty’s Airship: The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine, the triumph of hope over experience, why progress is based in ir…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago
We Can Get This Expensive Thing Cheap | The Long Way Around
Episode 1733
The rarest thing in the world is wisdom. The most expensive thing in the world is experience. How many truly wise people have you met? How many of them would take the time to download to you all that…
Published on 2 years, 3 months ago