53 – Xenophon, Anabasis I – Power Highlights
Best highlights, power quotes, and notes from a leadership and adventure classic, Xenophon’s Anabasis 1.
Featuring:
-How to get people to take real
Best highlights, power quotes, and notes from a leadership and adventure classic, Xenophon’s Anabasis 1.
Featuring:
-How to get people to take real
The moment when someone obscure and untested realizes, in a crisis, that they can handle this. An autobiographical story from someone who was both a
Persevere when you are surrounded by enemies, like the other Santa Claus, Saint Basil of Caesarea. A Christmas special, from the Cost of Glory.
A Spartan story about a conspiracy. Whether it’s a hostile corporate takeover, a plot to overthrow a president, or a school board coup, how do
How do you buy yourself some time when you can’t afford to tell people the reason why? A strategy used by a Spartan commander, Dercylidas.
How should we look at the lives of “problematic” great figures? Join us as we join the ancient philosopher Plutarch, in sizing up two incredible
Mass murderer or brilliant patriot? Whatever your take on Sulla, it’s worth analyzing the qualities that made him a joy to his friends, and a
How do you keep your team together in a civil conflict? Can a country right itself by warring with itself? What are the limits to
How does a great commander handle being undermined by his government back home? How should we treat opponents we defeat? And how do we negotiate
How do we get Fortune on our side? What are the qualities necessary for daring unthinkable, unspeakable acts? When is it justifiable to massacre your
A principle for building exercises to control your anxiety or fear. Favorinus, a philosopher from the time of Plutarch, offers some deft observations about Socrates.
Plutarch offers insight on relating to people above your station
Plato gives insight on how to undermine your enemies
How to turn bad luck around. SPOILER: it’s not just more effort.
Stories of Timotheus and Sulla.
What happened after Lysander died? What was his legacy? What can we learn from his life?
Lysander returns from his setbacks at Sparta with a revolutionary plan. He consults the gods about the Spartan Kingship; and some of his own prophecies
Lysander – The Spartan who took down Athens. In this episode: the dangers of success.
How (and why) Lysander installed the notorious “Thirty” at Athens,
A Spartan; first Greek honored as a god during his lifetime; destroyer of Athenian naval supremacy.
In this episode: his rise to power, how he
A story about how Socrates reacted when he got publicly shamed.
Harry Truman was a great admirer of Plutarch’s lives, and recommended them often. He discusses why.
Quotes taken from Miller’s oral biography of Truman,
How do we translate the advice Plutarch gives on free speaking, with the example of Pericles, into the world of modern media?
What combination of habits produces both strength and peace? How do we become more sovereign over our lives, over ourselves? With some references from a
What combination of habits produces both strength and peace? How do we become more sovereign over our lives, over ourselves? With some references from a
Why do we work? How should we spend our leisure? Also, announcing the next biography subjects!
A quote and meditation from Plutarch’s On Having Many Friends.
Pyrrhus made his mark by cultivating an almost maniacal focus on winning in battle – he had a lust for combat. In doing so, he
Pyrrhus challenges the Romans.
History is full of examples of ambitious leaders who achieved great things. And conversely it features eminent leaders who dreamed
Pyrrhus, the Warrior King. Father of the “Pyrrhic Victory.” Get fired up by the story of his physical courage, his determination to win against great
A brief account of the life of Plato, and how he stayed virtuous by using this ONE WEIRD trick….