Ryan Holiday
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647 appearances
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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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The Oprah Podcast · A Doctor Says You Need 17 Minutes Outside Every Day. Here’s Why · 11 Aug 2026
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It's never going the way that you want it to go.
But then when I look back on that 10 year period, I see how each one of those moments was formative into making me where I am now.
And I sometimes wish, and and this is I think a very
particular part of the stoke practice to go, if I'm gonna feel better about this later, why am I torturing myself about it now?
Yeah.
Why can't I borrow that?
Take it on it, take it uh on advance?
Why don't I give myself the perspective of some distance and space now instead of feeling transformed by it a decade from now?
Yeah, do you wanna pray for things to go a certain way, or do you wanna pray for the strength to be able to handle them however they go?
Epictetus was approached by one of his students, and the student said, You know, tell me what to do, tell me what to do.
And he said, That's the wrong question.
You should be asking me to help make you adaptable to circumstances, to be able to meet whatever the future brings.
And if we understand that we don't get a
say in how uh the future is going to go.
We only get a say in who we're going to be, whatever that is, then we're we have a much better prescription for resiliency there than needing to be so strong that we can we can make things be a certain way or be so lucky that they go a certain way.
We want to be
Weather for we want to be ready for whatever the weather is.
exactly right.
People think stoic means has no emotions.
I sort of define stoicism as this idea that we don't control what happens but we control how we respond to what happens.
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