Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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But my main job as a person philosophically is to not be those things, right?
Like if what you allow
is the shittiness of what's happening around you to make you feel shitty and worse to be shitty, like they're winning.
And so I think that's, to me, that's where stoicism really has a lot to offer because we are living in disorienting, disappointing, disillusioning times.
But if you allow that to strip from you, your happiness at home, your productivity at work, your decency, your kindness, your connection to other people, like, it is winning.
And that's kind of how I think about it.
I imagine there's an extra level of, not temptation, but struggle where you're like, I could break this person in half, you know?
Like, I don't, that's not a thought that enters my head, but I imagine when you are trained to do what you are trained to do and at different points in your life that has been unleashed,
just the restraint of going, hey, that's not the rules of engagement in the world that I'm in now.
That would be like a level of like restraint that you would have to practice.
But one of the things I think about is like,
Okay, if somebody tried to control my thoughts or controlled what I said, controlled what I did, I'd like, I'd resist that.
Like just instinctively, that's, no, I get to decide, I'm in charge.
And yet we kind of hand our minds over to people all the time.
Like we let them, we let them just take up like inordinate amounts of time and space in our life.
I was talking to this,
Talking to this writer I know, and she was saying, you know, she really didn't like what was happening politically.
And she was saying that she was having trouble.
She was like, I just can't, I can't work right now.
Like, she's like, I'm so outraged, I'm so upset, so pissed off that like, I just, I can't, I can't do it.
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