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Why Humans are Wired for Status, Not Happiness | Morgan Housel PT 2
Episode 2019
Ryan continues his conversation with Morgan Housel, they discuss the power of storytelling, how humans are wired for status and not happiness, his la…
2 years, 1 month ago
It’s Producing Something Good | 20 Inspiring Moments Of Stoicism
Episode 2025
The regular person in us is frustrated by all this. But the Stoic in us knows that this is leading us, teaching us, shaping us. Seneca said that misf…
2 years, 1 month ago
Stop Expecting This | Cultivate Indifference
Episode 2024
At this point, you should have a pretty good understanding of human nature. That’s why we read history after all (and if you don’t, we suggest this r…
2 years, 1 month ago
The Curse Of Success | Morgan Housel PT 1
Episode 2017
Ryan speaks with author Morgan Housel in the first of a two-part conversation to discuss his near death experience as a teenager, the ephemeral and p…
2 years, 1 month ago
You Don’t Get a Choice | Circumstances Have No care For Our Feelings
Episode 2021
Certainly, Marcus Aurelius would have related to the sentiment. Floods. Plagues. Wars. A troubled son. Personal health issues. “Haven’t I given enoug…
2 years, 1 month ago
When The World Got Still | Ask DS
Episode 2020
It was anxiety inducing and scary, but there was also a stillness in it. Because you were forced, against your will, to truly practice Stoicism. Not …
2 years, 1 month ago
Remind Yourself Of This
Episode 2018
It doesn’t always feel like it. Not when you’re regularly screwing up. Not when you keep losing your temper, not when you’re not as patient as you sh…
2 years, 1 month ago
Why Stoicism is Having a Modern Resurgence | Mick Mulroy (PT 2)
Episode 2011
Ryan speaks with Mick Mulroy in the first of a two-part conversation about the simplicity of Stoicism but the difficulties people have in practicing …
2 years, 1 month ago
You Ain’t Got Time | 10 Habits That Made Marcus Aurelius Great
Episode 2015
People are out of their minds and always have been. You get the sense in Seneca’s writings that Rome drove him crazy. You see the same in Epictetus’ …
2 years, 1 month ago
We Can Find The Gift In It | Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
Episode 2014
We wrote an email over at Daily Dad (please subscribe if you haven’t!) recently which notes Robert F. Kennedy’s troubled childhood in the troubled Ke…
2 years, 1 month ago