Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
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So what the Stoics teach us is not like abstract ideas, but really sort of hard-won practical wisdom about
about how you deal with the hand that life deals you.
All right.
Let's do it.
So in The Obstacle is the Way, I sort of break this art of turning difficulty or problems into an advantage or into an opportunity.
And it's built around these three stoic disciplines, which is first the discipline of perception.
That's how we see things.
That's our judgment about things.
Then there's action.
What are you going to do about it?
And then will is like, how do you endure?
How do you survive?
How do you get through tough stuff?
So a quote from Marx's Realist, it sort of encapsulates this.
He says, objective judgment now at this very moment.
Then he says, unselfish action now at this very moment.
Then he says, willing acceptance now at this very moment, that's all you need.
That's a stoic formula for taking something that is challenging or heartbreaking or painful or discouraging and flipping it upside down and turning it into something that, you know, in retrospect, you're like, I'm glad this happened.
I was able to do X, Y, or Z because of that thing happening.
Yeah, that's the idea is you go, okay, look, there are always things that we can do in response to a situation.
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