Ryan Holiday
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37,606 appearances
206 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
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Uh you know, it's funny, there's a line of meditations where Mark Sharus goes, Remember very little is needed for a happy life and it's like, Well, it's easy to say when you're the emperor.
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Um but but I think h his point is that it's it's not and all the stoics are saying this like it's not
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when this happens or if this happens or after this happens, then you can ha like if if your happiness is dependent on what they would call an external of some kind, whether that's somebody else's approval or some achievement or some
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external condition like, you know, when the plague goes away or when the economy gets back to normal or when the war ends, you know, now you're not in the driver's seat.
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And that's like not not that the whole point is to be in the driver's seat.
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But then again, if what good is it if God, fortune, or random luck decides whether the math
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Adds up for you to have this thing right now.
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Yeah.
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And so I think for the Stoics, the idea was it's not that you never accepted anything new or even wanted anything new.
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It was that if you thought you needed these things, not only uh were were you wrong, but in the needing, you have now created a vulnerability and a and uh a weakness in the sense that
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Yeah.
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That someone can take it away, someone is dependent on you getting it or not.
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Um, and that's that's what we're trying to avoid.
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Yeah.
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Like I think about it with books.
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Like, um, do I need, would I like it to be a bestseller?
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Sure.
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Would I like it to earn back its advance?
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I mean, definitely that would be good.
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