Ryan Holiday
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1,843 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You know that, I don't know, your marriage is incredibly important to you and certainly not worth a few minutes of pleasure.
And yet you, in the moment, are considering doing something that, you know, would blow that up.
Or you know all your other accomplishments have never made you feel secure or like you've arrived, that there's an emptiness or a hollowness to them.
And yet you go, it's different this time.
Why do we, I mean, yeah.
Well, I think from an evolutionary standpoint, it makes total sense, right?
Like...
If humans were good at being like, I'm good.
I don't need any more.
Like enoughness is not a great evolutionary feeling, but like insatiability makes you go on to the next and the next and the next thing.
And so that can be good for the species as a whole, but really bad for the individual.
Makes sense.
I think it's, we're not,
We are not designed to... Our biology is not inclined to make us feel content and happy and secure.
And it takes a lot of work to counteract that impulse.
How have you done it?
I mean, I struggle with it like everybody else.
I...
I try to walk through this process.
Like, how am I gonna, like, am I, it's not that, to me, like, going like, okay, hey, if I get on the other side of this, this accomplishment, this achievement, whatever, it's not gonna make me feel
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