Ryan Holiday

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The Shawn Ryan Show · #321 Ryan Holiday - The Stoic Survival Guide · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

You have that intuition, you just know.

And I think what stoicism is, whether you're doing journaling, whether you're taking a few minutes, whether you take a long walk, or you're just talking through it with someone you know, stoicism is about asking yourself, hey, is this real or not?

Is this true or not?

Is this productive or not?

Is this helpful or not?

Again, this is all very easy to say.

But that's what it is as a process, is to deal with precisely those feelings, which every person who ever lived has struggled with in some way or another.

Yeah.

It's not bottling it up.

I think, obviously, the word Stoic in English.

So Stoicism comes about the fourth century BC.

This guy named Zeno founds this school of philosophy.

He's inspired by the cynics, another word that we don't do great justice to in the English language.

We think cynics or cynicism means sort of negative or skeptical or doesn't believe in anything, not what it is at all.

And stoicism is called stoicism

because Zeno sets up his school on the stoa pocille, the painted porch in Athens.

Stoa just means porch.

These were guys hanging out on this porch talking about these ideas.

Now, flash forward 2,500 years later, when we go, oh, that guy is really stoic, we take that to mean, like, he doesn't feel anything.

He's a robot.

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