Ryan Holiday

this is where the virtues are related, right?

So if wisdom is this idea of like wanting to learn as much as possible and be exposed to as many things as possible and to get as much experience as possible and to reflect as much as possible and to read as much as possible, wisdom has to be fused with discipline because it's not a button you press.

There is no shortcut.

There is no magic.

It's this thing that you do.

And the longer you do it,

the more you get or the more profound and holistic it becomes.

And so, you know, it's not like, hey, I read a lot when I was in college.

It's that I read a lot.

It's not, oh, I had this formative mentor.

It's that I'm always looking for mentors and teachers.

And I'm not saying I mean generally a person.

Right.

It's the day to dayness of it.

And you're right.

It doesn't have to actually be that much.

Seneca's famous book, which we call his letters, is him writing to his friend Lucilius, who's a politician in the Roman Empire.

And in one of the interesting essays, he says basically wisdom is this idea of like getting one thing a day.

Their exchange is he's like Seneca's giving him a quote or a thing to chew on or something.

They're just trading one thing back and forth each day.