Ryan Holiday

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

Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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But but the putting it into practice, the struggling with it day to day is the thing.
And I think understanding that it's work, it's not, oh, I heard this idea once, I saw this quote, so now I get it, and now this thing isn't hard for me.
It's the reminder of it day to day.
If we understand what meditations was for the most powerful man in the world, it's him reminding himself over and over again.
By the
It's this totally unique historical document, uh, Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, one of the the great texts, uh great gifts of of civilization that that this survives.
But he says a lot of the same things over and over again because it's not for you and me, it was for him.
He's reminding himself He's
Yes, and he's he's doing it during a plague.
I
might be mortified.
He might be mortified.
Yeah.
He he's he's doing it through a plague, through floods, through wars, through the loss of of multiple I he g he attends multiple funerals for his children.
It is a it is a deeply and profoundly painful life that he gets through.
And he is having to work through it as we are all.
So he leaves the
it's the journal.
In the same way that I sit down in the morning and I go, Hey, you didn't need to lose your temper like that yesterday.
Don't you regret it?
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