Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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I think a lot of people experienced that during the pandemic.
Suddenly, they were working from home.
Suddenly, there wasn't a boss looking over their shoulders.
And then they realized, oh, I have to be the boss.
No one can make me do any of this.
No one's going to remind me about any of this.
I get to choose what order I do things or what I do and don't do.
Mm-hmm.
There's a part of me that doesn't want to make the right choices.
And stoicism is about holding yourself accountable.
It's about doing the hard thing.
It's about pushing yourself.
It's about growing.
And so, yeah, that requires that willpower.
One of Seneca's lines, which I think about a lot, he says, we treat the body rigorously so that it's not disobedient to the mind.
One of the reasons I have like a physical practice, I run or bike or swim every day, or I lift weights.
I do hard stuff because I don't want to do hard stuff, right?
Like what you learn in the gym, what you learn, you know, on the road is that there's the part of you that doesn't want to do it, that wants to huddle under the covers and the part of you that's glad afterwards that you did it.
And you have to fight to get from here to there, right?
The part of you that wants to
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