Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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You're not asking yourself, hey, let's say it does happen.
What then?
Because oftentimes what we're torturing ourself with is this kind of vague idea that like, oh, if this happens, that will be bad and I won't be able to handle it.
But the truth is we handle stuff all the time.
We've handled everything in our lives up until this point or we wouldn't be here.
We survived everything in our lives up until this point or we wouldn't be here.
And so stoicism is the, it's funny he said, he or she said about, you know, your brain is the obstacle.
Sometimes the brain is the obstacle, injury or not.
Like we have biases, we have patterns, we have things that we make up and they're not true, right?
It's based on
things that we haven't really worked through.
And stoicism is the idea of kind of working through that.
And that's, again, what Mark Sturlus is doing in the meditations.
It's not like this magical formula that as soon as you hear it, you don't have that problem anymore.
It's the, hey, I'm gonna pause and think about this and work through it and decide whether I'm going to assent to it or not.
Epictetus is one of the Stoic philosophers.
He would talk about how, like he says, a good money changer, like a person you would get money from in the ancient world, you know, he said, they know how to tell a counterfeit coin from a real coin.
by banging it on the table.
Like, they don't have to melt it down to test them out.
They just know, right?
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