Ryan Holiday

You could leave life right now, as Marx really says, let that determine what you do and say and think.

Life is short.

Do everything as if it was the thought or action of a dying person, Marcus says.

Life is fragile.

Those are three great lessons from Stoic philosophy you can apply right now.

I guess that's what I'm curious about.

Is it a conscious decision or is it something more like the training and the moment and the stories and the tradition?

Why do you mean you wish you took every bit of it?

I feel like the tradition is a huge part of it because, you know, your average person doesn't feel like they're maybe capable of doing that.

And I think a big part of the training is not like, hey, how many pull-ups can you do and how far can you run and how much can you lift?

Although that's obviously all part of it, but it's in the process of putting you through that and accepting you into the tradition that you feel like suddenly you're capable of doing

or that you're an heir to this thing.

Even though you're not actually related, you're all part of this lineage that goes back and includes every single one of those people.

In that moment, are you thinking, hey, this is my job?

Are you thinking, this is my friend?

Do you think anything at all?

In the book, it makes it sound like you kind of just, a thing happened and then you woke up after and you're like, where's my face?

Basically-

So I'm just curious how much thinking is going on.

It's not a thing they give lightly based on one person's opinion.