The Stoic Secrets to a Good Life (ft. Ryan Ho...

If you've ever tried to change something about yourself, failed, tried again, and concluded you must just be broken, here's some good news: you're probably not broken. You've just been aiming at the wrong target for years. Who you are is actually a layered system. There's your pe ...  Show more

Why do smart, emotionally aware people stay in relationships that are clearly destroying them? Drew and I dug into the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard marriage, to walk through the seven psychological mechanisms that quietly lock people inside bad relationships and make leaving feel ...  Show more

Someone pointed me to a Tucker Max tweet calling Stoicism a dead philosophy, backed by a study suggesting that a naive endorsement of Stoic ideology might actually be bad for wellbeing. It is a serious challenge, so I wanted to take it seriously.In this one I dig into the study i ...  Show more

Author and philosophy professor William Irvine goes in-depth on Stoicism, and why the fundamental tenets of this ancient philosophy can provide answers to some of the toughest problems in today’s society. On this episode Irvine offers a definition and some useful background on St ...  Show more

New author for the show: Ryan Holiday shares why stoicism is a practical philosophy you can actually use. Episode 909: Stoicism: Practical Philosophy You Can Actually Use by Ryan Holiday of RyanHoliday.net. Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist whose creative agency, Bras ...  Show more

Stoic philosopher and author Ryan Holiday shows us how to use the ancient philosophy to calm our mind and create a foundation for lasting success. Listen as Holiday takes us behind the scenes, revealing how he not only reads books and what he looks for, but his process for writin ...  Show more