Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
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And so he sort of, I wouldn't say went along with it, but never really contemplated the idea that there might be another way to end the war.
On the other hand, he would say, if you asked him, he would go, look, my obligation is to the mothers and fathers of American soldiers who, as...
Per the current estimation, several hundred thousand of them would die in a potential invasion of Japan.
And so as the American president, who is my obligation to when I make this decision?
Is it to the men and women who voted me into office, whose children I am sending into battle?
Or is it to the people of Japan?
And we would say that there's a tension between these two choices.
And ultimately, he makes the decision.
I don't say in the book whether I think it was the right or wrong one, but without a moral compass, without a sense of our obligations and our duties and responsibilities, a country, a nation, the world is in very rough shape.
And I think we're seeing now what happens when you put someone in the Oval Office whose primary obligation seems to be to themselves.
and doesn't see themself as really having any ethical constraints in any way, and actually has kind of a penchant for revenge as a list of enemies they want to punish, you know, that's where you really get yourself into trouble.
Look, the most basic practice in stoic philosophy is journaling.
The stoics spend time every day thinking about things, talking to themselves, talking to the page about what they're struggling with, about what their values are, about what's important, about what their options are.
And I think adding a journaling practice into your life as an entrepreneur is not only going to help you slow things down, not only help you get perspective, but it's going to root you in your values, in your principles, in what's important in a way that basically nothing else can.
And so if I could leave everyone here with something, it would be this idea of a journaling, a philosophical journaling habit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Look, if I'm not talking about here's what I had for breakfast, you know, here's what so and so said to me yesterday.
Here's what my goals are.
It's more like, how can I be better?
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