Ryan Holiday
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37,894 appearances
207 recordings
12 series
first heard Jun 2016
last heard today
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We carry it in the painted porch.
I loved it.
He said, think of what they had been through.
There's no one who hasn't an ancestry.
Who went through some kind of hell?
as your ancestors eighty years ago had things that even an ancient king did not.
And when things went sideways, you know what they did?
They handled it as we would handle it.
Churchill, in his great speech in the darkest hours of the Second World War, McCullough pointed out, reminded us that we haven't journeyed this far because we are made of sugar candy.
You come from that tradition.
You are made of the same stock as the Stoics.
You are literally from the stock of people who lived through wars and depressions and famines and floods.
You yourself, it should be pointed out, have been through some stuff, pandemics and panics, political unrest and personal issues.
You are not made of sugar candy.
You can handle this.
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.
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No one is excused from this.
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It might seem a bit out of character for a powerful general, a fierce warrior, to go everywhere with a book tucked under their arm.
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But in ancient Rome this was the figure that the great Scipio Emilianus cut, who was known for training in philosophy as arduously as he trained at arms.
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Flash forward to General James Mattis, a four-star general in the Marines, famously said that at no rank is a Marine excused from studying.
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