Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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Well, it wasn't like I just woke up one day and said, hey, I want to do the opposite of this.
It was a plan.
I was working towards having the freedom and leverage to control my own destiny and to talk and write and make content about the stuff that I wanted to make content about.
Well, the Stoics believed that life was unpredictable, life would be full of adversity and challenges and difficulties, and that one had to cultivate kind of an inner strength, an inner sense of purpose and values that could guide you through the inevitable ups and downs of existence.
And so stoicism to me, my definition as I've tried to introduce people to it over the years is this idea that, look, we don't control what happens, but we control how we respond to what happens.
And so I actually do think it's a philosophy, it's an approach to living that works well as an entrepreneur, as an artist, as a creator, as a small business owner.
And so what I've tried to do is take these ideas from the Greeks and Romans, you know, going back 23 or 24 centuries, and make them applicable and accessible to the kinds of things I was going through as an executive, the things you might be going through, you know, running your own show, or that, you know, somebody who's just trying to figure out their way in the world is going to need, but not think, hey, what can ancient philosophy teach me about?
Well, I think sometimes we think that the ancient world was this thing that happened for like a brief period.
But the ancient world was thousands of years old, right?
So Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of Rome, one of the most well-known Stoics,
He comes to Stoicism like 500 years after it was started.
So it was ancient philosophy to him
a man whom to us is an ancient philosopher.
So for hundreds of years and now thousands of years, the Stoics were entrepreneurs and athletes and actors and soldiers and politicians and husbands and wives and sons and daughters, human beings trying to make their way through an unpredictable, random path.
frustrating world.
And these lessons survived to us.
They weren't just speculating about stuff.
They learned it running the Roman Empire.
They learned it leading troops into battle.
They learned it recovering from a shipwreck or being sent into exile.
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