Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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And what he's doing is sitting down and writing to himself, trying to get back to center, right?
Interesting.
And it just wasn't burned upon his death, or it wasn't destroyed when he died.
And so it doesn't read like a typical book.
I mean, it's 12 books, each passage is numbered, but it's really...
like almost like journal or diary entries, because that's what stoicism is, is like this, you know how you're trying to be, and then you're here.
There's a great line in meditations where he's saying like, fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you.
And that's what he's doing.
Can you say that again?
He says, fight to be the person that philosophy tried to make you, or fight to be the person that philosophy wants you to be, right?
It's like, we all know
the idea, the ideal, like what our best self is, and then we're dysregulated, or we're tired, or we're hungry, or somebody's being really awful and annoying, and we're struggling to be, to get from the lower self to the higher self.
Gotcha.
Right?
And that's what this is.
So I got this, and then this one will hopefully, like meditations should be, it should be a book that you,
Like most books you read, right?
Meditation should be a book that you are reading.
Like it should sit on the nightstand and you pick it up and you read it throughout your life.
Because it was written throughout someone's life.
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