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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He's saying difficult and annoying people can get in our way.
They can cause problems for us, right?
Our opponents, our competitors, anyone can cause problems for us, but they can't prevent us from moving forward because they're actually presenting us a new way to move forward, whether it's patience, whether it's forgiveness, whether it's creativity or perseverance.
So for the Stoics, when they say the obstacle is the way,
Look, sometimes you can transform what you're dealing with into some huge opportunity to move forward in a professional capacity.
Yeah.
But always in a personal capacity, we're being challenged and tested.
We're given an opportunity to practice some kind of excellence, some reach for us that maybe we wouldn't have done under ordinary circumstances.
But this circumstance we're in gives us the chance to do that.
That's what he's what he means.
One of the stoic philosophers, Seneca, he said that the one thing all fools have in common is that they're always getting ready to start.
So we say we're going to do it later.
We say we're going to do it tomorrow.
We say we're going to do it when things go back to normal.
All fools have this in common.
I was thinking, okay, I'm in that fool category.
Me too.
Yeah, we're working ourselves up to it.
Yeah.
And really, we got to get started.
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