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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If we understand what meditations was for the most powerful man in the world, it's him reminding himself over and over again.
Emperor of Rome.
It's this totally unique historical document.
Mark Strelitz's Meditations, one of the great texts, great gifts of civilization 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.
Yes.
And he's doing it during a plague.
He might be mortified.
He might be mortified.
Yeah.
He's doing it through a plague, through floods, through wars, through the loss of multiple—he attends multiple funerals for his children.
It is a deeply and profoundly painful life that he gets through.
And he is having to work through it, as we are all having to work through it.
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?
Why did you do that?
You know better than this.
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