Tim Ferriss

And people can certainly find a lot of great books written in a contemporary sense by Ryan Holiday, The Obstacle is the Way.

I actually produced the audiobook for that book.

No kidding.

And one of his first early writings on Stoicism was a blog post on my blog way back in the day.

And at that point, we resonated on Stoicism because I had been traveling almost always with a copy of Letters from a Stoic, which are the moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca the Younger.

Now, Seneca the Younger, controversial character for a bunch of reasons, but...

very, very, very skilled writer and proponent of Stoicism.

And... in effect, one of the practices that he would encourage is...

He had a number of them.

But it was, in effect, defining your fears, thinking about the worst-case scenario, so there was a mental component to it.

There was also a practiced component, which would be... And actually, Kevin Kelly does this as well.

So, in effect, practicing the thing that you most fear, like poverty.

So, like, Kevin Kelly, this is a good example, modern example.

Like, he sometimes will go a week or two

just as a practice, like sleeping in his living room in a sleeping bag, eating, like, rice and beans and instant coffee.

And Kevin isn't really afraid of most things, but what you realize, and you realize this too if you go on a week-long camping trip, you're like, this is actually pretty sweet.

I don't actually need that much.

Simpler times.

That's what I've noticed.

And when you prove that to yourself,