Ryan Holiday

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

And I was saying like, okay, but like, if this administration came to you and was like, hey, if you keep doing your work, we're gonna throw you in prison, you'd be like,

That would be so immediately galvanizing that it would fire you up, right?

You would never allow a government of any persuasion to tell you what you can and can't say.

That's the job of an artist, right?

And that's what it means to be an American.

That's what's all right there in the First Amendment.

And I was like, but here, voluntarily,

you're doing precisely that because you don't like what's happening in the world, because it's dark or pissing you off or whatever.

You're allowing it to consume so much of your mental bandwidth and your motivation that it's having the same effect.

Like, they might as well be putting a gun to your head and saying, you can't do this.

But it's actually worse because they're not doing that.

And so I do think it's really important that we

you gotta have some mechanism by which you put up some walls and boundaries, and then you protect the thing that is yours.

The Stoics would say the greatest empire is command of yourself, your sovereignty as an individual.

And the problem is we give that up all the time because somebody cut us off in traffic, because we opened up our phone and the news was bad.

because our parents are visiting or, you know, like we just let these things get inside us and then determine our mood, determine our, you know, our focus, determine what we think about, determine our behavior.

And I mean, it's not easy, it's a lot of work.

And I fall down this, you know, sort of into these traps all the time, but I am trying to go, hey, like I'm,

I gotta protect this, even if it feels good or it feels natural.

I can't allow that.

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