Dr. Dan Dworkis

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91 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 11 Aug

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The Oprah Podcast · Is Stoicism the Secret to a Good Life? · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And somebody dies.

And you go home from that and you realize your limitations, how small you are, that there are these obstacles, that there is no way around.

And what do you do with that, right?

So you have to find some method of –

a how and a why to come back tomorrow and to try harder and to do better and so as i was wrestling with that i really found the stoic principles to be incredibly helpful about making meaning out of that right so this idea of operate where you have control or play the hand of cards you're dealt you know to find a way to help that lean into as opposed to away from that raw messy humanity

So for me, practicing stoicism became just a really critical part of how I practice and teach emergency medicine.

So much so that when I wrote my book, The Emergency Mind, which is like lessons from an ER doctor on how to perform under pressure, I tried to think about this core concept of what is stoicism for emergencies and then build outward from there.

So I think it's really intimately tied to crisis, whether you're the one going through it or the one trying to solve it.

Wow.

I hear you have a question for Ryan.

I do.

And I'm very thankful to get the chance to ask it.

I actually read The Obstacle is the Way in between shifts when I was coming up and made a big difference for me.

So thank you for that.

That is amazing.

One of the things I really love about stoicism is that it's an and instead of an or.

So you can be, as you said, religious and very deeply religious and a Stoic, or you can be not religious at all and be a Stoic.

You can be a teacher or an author or an ER doctor or anything and be a Stoic, a Republican and a Stoic, a Democrat and a Stoic.

Our culture these days doesn't really do and, right?

We do a lot of or.

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