Ryan Holiday

I'd still have to be stoic in response to the fact that right before I'm about to go on stage, something goes totally sideways and I'm not in control.

And I just have to figure out how I'm going to respond.

And how do I make sure that doesn't throw me that the fans are already a little off?

They're a little frustrated.

Things are late.

Actually, not only...

Can I not let it ruin it?

I have to figure out how to compensate for it and make things better as a result.

And, you know, here I am two years later on my way back and I get to tell that story and share for you.

That's one of the perks of being a writer or making YouTube videos or podcasts.

You can always use this stuff as material.

So I will be back in Sydney on October 16th and then also Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Uckland.

Before that, I'm going to be in Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Chicago, and Detroit.

You can grab all those tickets at dailystoiclive.com.

And in the meantime, here are some questions from some folks in Sydney that they asked me right after the fire alarm went off.

Yeah, I was talking about the stories that we tell ourselves, right?

It's especially hard not to tell yourself a story about your success when that success is public and other people are telling a story about you.

When you're seeing it

in print or in video, right?

When you're seeing other people tell you, oh, you're a genius, oh, you're special, look how great this thing you did was.