Chris Schembra

Because we had learned that through our virtual gratitude experiences and the stories that people have been sharing through the years.

I read a book, Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. In it, he mentions the Stoics. On the back, he mentions a guy named Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is a guy that when he was 19 years old, he picked up a book by an ancient Stoic, Marcus Aurelius. And Ryan Holiday became the modern interpreter of Stoics. the ancient Stoics.

I read a book, Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. In it, he mentions the Stoics. On the back, he mentions a guy named Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is a guy that when he was 19 years old, he picked up a book by an ancient Stoic, Marcus Aurelius. And Ryan Holiday became the modern interpreter of Stoics. the ancient Stoics.

I read a book, Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck by Mark Manson. In it, he mentions the Stoics. On the back, he mentions a guy named Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is a guy that when he was 19 years old, he picked up a book by an ancient Stoic, Marcus Aurelius. And Ryan Holiday became the modern interpreter of Stoics. the ancient Stoics.

He would write books like The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is Key. It was amazing. And then I read Oliver Berkman's book, 4,000 Weeks, Time Management for Mortals. And essentially what Stoicism is, as defined by Nisam Tlaib, And I've COVID brain, so I need to actually go into my book to get this.

He would write books like The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is Key. It was amazing. And then I read Oliver Berkman's book, 4,000 Weeks, Time Management for Mortals. And essentially what Stoicism is, as defined by Nisam Tlaib, And I've COVID brain, so I need to actually go into my book to get this.

He would write books like The Obstacle is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is Key. It was amazing. And then I read Oliver Berkman's book, 4,000 Weeks, Time Management for Mortals. And essentially what Stoicism is, as defined by Nisam Tlaib, And I've COVID brain, so I need to actually go into my book to get this.

But essentially what Nisam Tlaib defined stoicism as principles that will help you transform fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. The famous thing that Ryan Holiday quotes that Marcus Aurelius, a great emperor, of Rome 2,000 years ago once said was, the mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

But essentially what Nisam Tlaib defined stoicism as principles that will help you transform fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. The famous thing that Ryan Holiday quotes that Marcus Aurelius, a great emperor, of Rome 2,000 years ago once said was, the mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

But essentially what Nisam Tlaib defined stoicism as principles that will help you transform fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking. The famous thing that Ryan Holiday quotes that Marcus Aurelius, a great emperor, of Rome 2,000 years ago once said was, the mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So as I started reading all these books, I started realizing, oh my God, the truest answers to life don't come from the positive things, They come from how you accept, conquer, learn from, use to your advantage, the negative things. And so then I just started reading all the ancient Stoics.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So as I started reading all these books, I started realizing, oh my God, the truest answers to life don't come from the positive things, They come from how you accept, conquer, learn from, use to your advantage, the negative things. And so then I just started reading all the ancient Stoics.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. So as I started reading all these books, I started realizing, oh my God, the truest answers to life don't come from the positive things, They come from how you accept, conquer, learn from, use to your advantage, the negative things. And so then I just started reading all the ancient Stoics.

And what I realized is, so the great Stoics and then Ryan Holiday and Oliver Berkman and Mark Manson and Sebastian Junger and all these great people, they hinted at gratitude for like a paragraph, right? But they didn't write an entire book about the relationship between gratitude and stoicism. So we wanted to go out there and write that book.

And what I realized is, so the great Stoics and then Ryan Holiday and Oliver Berkman and Mark Manson and Sebastian Junger and all these great people, they hinted at gratitude for like a paragraph, right? But they didn't write an entire book about the relationship between gratitude and stoicism. So we wanted to go out there and write that book.

And what I realized is, so the great Stoics and then Ryan Holiday and Oliver Berkman and Mark Manson and Sebastian Junger and all these great people, they hinted at gratitude for like a paragraph, right? But they didn't write an entire book about the relationship between gratitude and stoicism. So we wanted to go out there and write that book.

we will go deeper into the relationship between gratitude and stoicism in future books. Look, every time that I would see someone zig in life, I had the instinct to zag every time, especially now that I see people diving deeper and deeper into like the woo positivity space to like solve their ailments through difficult times. The more I want to go the polar opposite way.

we will go deeper into the relationship between gratitude and stoicism in future books. Look, every time that I would see someone zig in life, I had the instinct to zag every time, especially now that I see people diving deeper and deeper into like the woo positivity space to like solve their ailments through difficult times. The more I want to go the polar opposite way.

we will go deeper into the relationship between gratitude and stoicism in future books. Look, every time that I would see someone zig in life, I had the instinct to zag every time, especially now that I see people diving deeper and deeper into like the woo positivity space to like solve their ailments through difficult times. The more I want to go the polar opposite way.

Nobody, nobody has come to me and said, Oh my God, you believe in giving gratitude to the fluffy wuffy. You're so refreshing. No, I've got like one of the coolest people on the planet. You literally saying, dude, you're anti, you know, cultural gratitude. The hard times thingy is refreshing as hell. And I'm like, yeah, that's what we go for. That's what we go for.