Ryan Holiday
speaker
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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The Oprah Podcast · A Doctor Says You Need 17 Minutes Outside Every Day. Here’s Why · 11 Aug 2026
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I think it's a it's all of the above.
I mean, look, sometimes you face a problem or an obstacle and and what what's being demanded of you is persistence, perseverance, determination.
You gotta knock this thing out of the way with sheer force.
That's what the opportunity is.
And you're gonna get stronger just like lifting weights for having had to wrestle with this thing.
Epictetus, one of the stoic he says, you know.
Uh pretend you've been uh you're an Olympic athlete and you've been paired with a strong sparring partner.
Like you're wrestling with this and you're both getting better because it's hard.
So sometimes it's like that.
But you're right, sometimes it's actually not a surmountable obstacle.
Sometimes it's just an obstacle there that's
There to teach you about yourself, to teach you about the world.
Trevor Burrus Is everything there to teach us something?
Aaron Powell I think there is no there's nothing so bad that you can't learn something from it.
I think that's that is the ultimate way that we turn the obstacle into an opportunity as a as a learning experience, if not in our own lives.
How can if we've screwed up horribly bad badly, how do we at least uh codify what
what we've learned so our children can benefit from it or people we know can benefit from it.
I think even with the idea of like what a philosopher is, right?
People tend to think of a philosopher as someone who works at a university and discourses about philosophy as opposed to he's a philosopher in the emergency room, right?
Philosophy is supposed to help you
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