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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It's something you put into practice that helps you with what you do.
And I think if we can understand that we're all human beings dealing with that same fundamental limitation.
Marcus Aurelius is the most powerful man in the world.
Epictetus is a slave in the Roman empire.
One is extremely powerful, one is extremely powerless.
but they're equalized by the fact that the vast majority of life is not in their control.
And so in that, we all have this thing in common.
We're all trying to respond well to the hand we've been dealt in life.
That to me is where we come together and where stoicism is something that you could talk about with a professional athlete or an emergency room doctor or a parent with a toddler that's just trying to get through the sleepless nights.
Yeah, a lot of the obstacles we face are just the sort of pedestrian problems of life, right?
Traffic, travel delays, you know, you wake up sick, you got a problem at work.
And then there are those sort of deeper, more profound problems, obstacles, a cancer diagnosis, loss of a loved one, an accident, bankruptcy, a theft, the real stuff.
And it's in those moments that I think we're really being tested.
And we have an opportunity
to learn what we're made of.
The Stoics talked about how they sort of pity people who haven't been knocked around by life, because they don't know what they're capable of.
That's right.
And if you say to yourself, hey, this is me learning something essential about myself.
This is a test.
Will I rise to meet it or not?
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