Podcast
The Daily Stoic
Ryan Holiday interviews authors, historians and practitioners about Stoicism and how to live.
These are Stoa's briefs of episodes from The Daily Stoic. The episodes belong to their makers, and every brief links to the original.
Episode briefs 7
Marcus Aurelius's Final Years and Meditations
Ryan Holiday and Professor William O. Stephens discuss the illness, loss, and isolation behind Marcus Aurelius's final years and the writing of Meditations.
Kate Bowler and Ryan Holiday on Joy Versus Happiness
Kate Bowler and Ryan Holiday discuss how Stoic joy differs from happiness and pleasure, and why modern self-optimization culture makes both harder to find.
Colin Kaepernick and Ryan Holiday on Justice and Success
Colin Kaepernick and Ryan Holiday discuss what wealth and success obligate a person to do, and whether moral standing requires personal experience of injustice.
Stoic Lessons on Power and Complicity from Roman History
Two hosts tour Roman political history to argue that Stoic virtue demanded active participation in public life, not withdrawal from it.
Stoic Premeditation and the Predictable Frustrations of Parenting
Ryan Holiday and psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy connect the Stoic practice of premeditatio malorum to why parents are so often blindsided by ordinary child behavior.
Why Constraints, Not Freedom, Make Us Better
Ryan Holiday and David Epstein discuss why limits, not unchecked freedom, are what keep power and success from corrupting people.
Ryan Holiday Runs Rome's Stoic Sites
Ryan Holiday narrates a solo 50-kilometer run past Rome's Stoic landmarks to draw out lessons about voluntary hardship and endurance.