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It Picks You Up. It Puts You Down. A Hundred Times A Day. | Cultivate Indifference
Episode 2908
Is this what we’re here for? To be the passions’ slave? To be the plaything of emotions and impulses? It can’t be!
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You Can’t Join Them
Episode 2907
People are the way they are. They will always be this way. We don’t control that.
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Lincoln’s Secret Weapon (It Wasn’t Power)
Episode 2906
How do you hold a country together when it’s tearing itself apart? In this episode, Ryan sits down with Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Doris Kearns…
1 month ago
This is The Math That Losers Do | What Virtue Is This Moment Asking of You?
Episode 2905
The past is gone, and no amount of calculation will bring it back or make it fair. What we do have is agency right now.
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This is How You Win the Day | Circumstances Have No Care For Our Feelings
Episode 2904
We have a duty. Our nature—justice—demands something from us. It demands that we get up, get after it, and wear ourselves down doing it.
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Simple Stoic Rules That Actually Change Your Life
Episode 2903
Life is a lot. It moves fast. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by what to do, what not to do, and whether you’re even focusing on the right things. In t…
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The Case for History (Before It Repeats Itself) | Kenny Curtis
Episode 2902
If you think history is boring, irrelevant, or just not your "thing", this episode is for you. In today’s episode, Ryan sits down with Kenny Curtis, …
1 month, 1 week ago
You’ve Gotta Make Them Work For It | The Presidential Biographies You Can’t Afford to Skip
Episode 2901
It’s discouraging. It’s distracting. All the stuff that’s happening in the world. But you know what you can’t do? You can’t give up your work, your f…
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What A Wonderful Thing to Measure | Stoic Strategies for Becoming More Resilient
Episode 2900
We should pride ourselves on our ability to put up with these people, to be able to be nice to people who are not nice, to be able to turn the other …
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BONUS | This Stoic Idea Will Reset Your Week
Episode 2899
The Stoics knew that wanting less increases gratitude, just as wanting more obliterates it.
"Freedom isn't secured by filling up on your heart's desi…
1 month, 1 week ago