Ryan Holiday

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34,857 appearances 190 recordings 12 series first heard Jun 2016 last heard 4d ago

Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Daily Stoic · We All Need To Be Constrained · 14 Sep 2026 podcast

Either you have to force yourself into things that you can't wiggle your way out of, or you have to say, no, no, no, no, this is the deadline and I'm holding myself to it, or this is the way voice-verified

when the candle runs out, she's done. voice-verified

Which would also be powerful. voice-verified

Are worried, you know, like having kids or having uh getting married will like sort of tie you down. voice-verified

And I go, yeah, to reality. voice-verified

Like it it's a it's a constraint in a good way in that it there are suddenly other important demands on your time. voice-verified

There's this Philip Roth quote that I hate. voice-verified

Um because he's well, he he also sucks. voice-verified

But um but but it it it was um, you know, uh in my life it's always in uh voice-verified

It was something like uh there's always an emergency and I'm the emergency or what like his his point was it's all about him. voice-verified

Yeah, yeah. voice-verified

And and because he's the center of gravity of this whole universe as this powerful big writer person. voice-verified

And like um voice-verified

Yeah, you actually don't want your work to consume your life. voice-verified

You want it to be an important part of your life, but not the totality of your life. voice-verified

And having soccer practice or a kid that's sick or um, you know, um somebody who's gonna be mad at you if you uh if you blow off dinner, whatever it is, it actually forces you to keep some semblance of regularity or normalcy, which is it turns out is actually very important. voice-verified

About the idea of constraints. voice-verified

The first thing in my mind is actually this quote from Cleanthes, who's one of the early uh s Greek stoics. voice-verified

And he he is talking about poetry. voice-verified

And he's talking about how the fetters of poetry, the c the constraints of the length, but also the rhythm and the rhyme structure, is what creates the beauty of the poetry. voice-verified

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