Ryan Holiday
speaker
34,730 appearances
189 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard 5d ago
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Do we do hard things cause we want to beat other people?
Do we do hard things cause we want trophies?
No, that is not why.
Behind me is one of the great trophies of history.
It's Marcus Aurelius' victory column.
It's what they put up in honor of his victories in the Marcomanic Wars.
It's 400 feet of carvings, it stretches almost 200 feet in the air.
It's uh it's it's a towering feat of accomplishment, literally carved in stone.
You know what?
He wasn't around to enjoy it.
He died before it finished.
And then in the 15th century a pope knocked him off and put say polyp on top.
And they they put a new uh uh a new inscription at the bottom and they wrongly attributed the victory to someone else, which is
That's the point.
Trophies are not for you.
You do hard things because doing hard things is good for you.
The benefit is baked in in having done them.
That's why I like doing challenges like this.
Not races, not competitions.
I like doing challenges where the victory is what I get out of it.
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