Ryan Holiday

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The Oprah Podcast · A Doctor Says You Need 17 Minutes Outside Every Day. Here’s Why · 11 Aug 2026 podcast

And so I want to take the wins, the excitement, the achievements in the things that are up to me, as opposed to to waiting for somebody else to give it to me and then feeling good, but then also feeling nervous because they can take it away.

Or I can do everything right and not get it.

And so to me the i if we can switch

Identifying the highs with things that are up to us на

Did you get the award?

Did you get the promotion?

Did the deal come through?

But instead on the parts of it that are up to you, that's where the stoics are gonna feel better and and wanna you know, celebrate is is is is that that you did what you were capable of doing.

That's the win.

Yeah, I think in in many ways uh the popularity of stoicism is a reaction against what's clearly not working for us and clearly making us miserable.

We're slaves to the algorithm, slaves to desire, slaves to to all these things that we we know, although they can be rewarding in the moment, they're they're ultimately very draining and and empty.

So I think stoicism has has been popular.

popular for twenty five hundred years, but it tends to be resurgent in moments

Where things feel like they're not working.

I I think about this with my kids.

It's it's one thing to talk about this stuff, but then what do they see me doing?

How do they see me losing my cool?

And i they're throwing a tantrum and then I'm throwing a tantrum in response to their tantrum, and they're learning that this is what you do when you're upset or when you're overwhelmed or you can't express yourself well.

And so I think uh obviously first and foremost it it comes down to modeling.

But I think we want to

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