Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There were natural disasters.
There were wars.
He had health issues.
He was also a father and a husband.
And he had to deal with Murphy's Law, what can go wrong will.
But he tried to see this as an opportunity.
He tried to, he said, good fortune is what you make for yourself.
It's one of my favorite quotes from him.
He's like, by doing good things, by thinking good things, by treating people well,
And so what we see in Marcus is one of the few examples, you know, there's that expression about how absolute power corrupts absolutely.
It's one of the few examples where that doesn't happen.
And it doesn't happen because of his grounding in Stoic philosophy.
He would journal every day.
He was still reading.
There's a famous story about Marcus Aurelius.
Towards the end of his life, he's seen leaving his palace in Rome.
And a friend stops him and he says, you know, where are you going?
And he says, I'm off to see Sextus the philosopher to learn that which I do not yet know.
So even as an old man, he still saw himself as someone who was learning on the job, who had room for improvement, that he was a work in progress.
And in this way, he's one of the greatest human beings who ever lived.
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