Ryan Holiday
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37,606 appearances
206 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
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Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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None of these people are real.
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This is this is a fantasy.
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This is historical fantasy.
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And you're like, it couldn't have gone like that.
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It's like he also couldn't have been stabbed all these times and not died.
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It's all made up.
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And so yeah, there is this kind of tendency to wanna puncture every myth and legend and story as if that's the point of wisdom.
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So and so had a really cool shade of orange and people went like aveshit about it.
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Exactly.
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.
You come from this.
You have it pretty good.
We all do.
We have modern conveniences.
You live in a time of relative peace.
Your basic living standards are the greatest in human history, and expected lifespan is among the longest.
So it is easy to get spoiled.
It's also easy to assume that you are spoiled and soft, especially compared to the ancient Greeks and Romans or even our own ancestors.
Think of how tough our predecessors were, the great David McCullough writes in his short book History Matters, which you should definitely read.
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