Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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There's the Stoics and the Epicureans.
And Epicurean also in English tends to mean like loves pleasure, you know, indulges every whim.
And that's not really what they thought at all.
But Epicurus, what he would say, he was, let's say, more pleasure-seeking than the Stoics.
He would say that, like, if you're gonna... You're like, hey, let's share this bottle of wine.
He's like, you can't think about just how it's gonna feel on the way down.
You have to think about how you're gonna feel after.
And that part of the...
the experience has to be put into the calculation.
Okay.
But humans are bad at this, right?
Like, we tell ourselves, oh, if I make this amount of money, then I'll feel secure and good.
If I get with this person, then I'll feel, it'll be amazing, and then I'll feel good.
And people will look, if I get this car, if I win this office, if I, you know, hit this number on the chart.
Like, we just, we tell ourselves this...
that this thing will do something for us.
Now, the first time, or when you're younger, we can excuse this because we don't have, although there's all sorts of wisdom out there telling us that it's not gonna do what we think it's gonna do for us, we haven't directly tested the hypothesis ourselves.
But I think as you get older, to still be falling for that lie is a problem, right?
You know how you feel when you have a hangover.
That should change the drinking that you do.
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