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Political dysfunction and uncertainty are nothing new. The Stoics lived through their own times of chaos, cruelty, and disorder. But they understood something about surviving times like these that we would do well to remember today.

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The act of casting a ballot is in your control. You control whether or not you engage in the democratic process. And the Stoics are explicit on this point: the philosopher, they say, is obligated to contribute to the polis, and to participate in politics.

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In this bonus episode, follow Ryan behind the scenes as the Daily Stoic Live Tour takes him through Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit.

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When misinformation and extremism and utter nonsense pervades…When cruelty and meanness become acceptable…When the system is falling apart and the center looks like it may not hold…Your job is simple.

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You can't control everything that happens in politics, but you can control what you do with the power you have. In today’s episode, political leader, voting rights activist, and bestselling author Stacey Abrams joins Ryan to talk about the importance of accountability, the difference between outrage and action, why good leadership requires more than good intentions, and what Stoicism teaches us about our responsibility to make things better.

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Philosophy isn't supposed to be an intellectual exercise reserved for scholars. It's supposed to help you make better decisions, face difficulties, and figure out how to live.

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If only we could, as Marcus Aurelius said, let everything we do and say be that of a dying person, then we would get so much more right.

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It’s easy to glamorize the past. It’s also easy to give short shrift to the present.

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The Stoics didn't sugarcoat the truth. They believed in saying what needed to be said, even when it was uncomfortable, unpopular, or hard to hear.

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You might have noticed that we contradicted ourselves in our last two episodes. First, we celebrated what seems like the golden age that was the classical world. But then we pointed out just how vicious and corrupt that world was, too. So which is it?

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As the saying goes, what goes around comes around.

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We are lucky to live in this moment, however flawed.

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Seneca talked about how we need to ‘choose ourselves a Cato,’ a standard to measure ourselves against.

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Book banning isn't a thing of the past. The impulse to restrict what people can read, think, and question is as old as history itself. And just because you disagree with a book doesn't mean someone else shouldn't be allowed to read it.

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The Stoics also believed that wisdom is something we have to work for—not something we’re given. It didn’t matter if you were a slave like Epictetus or groomed for the throne like Marcus Aurelius—wisdom was still something you had to earn.

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Wouldn’t it be crazy if all that change had happened, but we were still doing the same things, still stagnant? We cannot go on being the person we’ve always been, Marcus writes in Meditations. We cannot remain as we are, Socrates said.

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You might be watching Ezra Frech on Dancing with the Stars right now, but there's a lot more to his story than what you see on TV. For today's bonus episode, we're bringing back Ryan's conversation with the Paralympic gold medalist, recorded before he joined the show.

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Marcus Aurelius and his son Commodus shared the same DNA. They, like all fathers and sons, probably shared some of the same tendencies and weaknesses. So how did they turn out so differently?

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Ten years after publishingThe Daily Stoic, Ryan shares what he’s learned, what he missed, and what he sees differently now.

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