Ryan Holiday
11 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 2, 2023 by Ryan Holiday · across every show →
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Feb 2, 2023 negative
Holiday: Modern society babies teenagers instead of teaching classical philosophy
“A seventeen-year-old is more than capable of reading a philosophical text, or reading Plutarch, or any of these, like, we baby our kids when it comes to books as if, like, for literally thousands of years, people, you know, your kid, your seventeen-year-old A …”
Feb 2, 2023 negative
Holiday: Building a better mousetrap fails without intentional framing
“There's that Emerson quote where he says, you know, if you build a better mousetrap, the world will beat a path to your door. That's not how life works. Like you have to create a compelling reason for people to be interested. You have to think about what their…”
Feb 2, 2023 negative
Holiday: Society's virtue collapse stems from abandoning moral narratives
“The means by which society has been communicating these timeless ideas. Of course it's by example, but it's also by narrative and myth and the art that you have up in your house, the stories you tell them, the movies you watch, you know, the people you support…”
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Feb 2, 2023 positive
Holiday: Daily Stoic newsletter reaches over 500,000 subscribers every day
“Look, the Daily Stoic email goes out to over a half a million people every day. That is the, without a doubt, the largest collection Of people interested in stoic philosophy to ever have been assembled at one time in human history, right?”
Feb 2, 2023
Apr 19, 2023 positive
Holiday: Difficult hobbies keep successful professionals humble and check ego
“It doesn't matter how long you've been doing it. It doesn't matter how talented you are, how smart you are. It's hard, and therefore, Beneficial from an ego perspective, because it makes you realize you're not the master of the universe, even if you are profes…”
Jun 22, 2023
Holiday: Leaders need active physical hobbies, not passive meme viewing, to recharge
“The most important thing That a leader can have is a hobby. He says they have, they must have at least one or two hobbies. They have to be real. They have to be like stuff that you do. So watching memes is not a good enough hobby. It has to be something that h…”
Jun 22, 2023 positive
Holiday: Doing manual tasks you're bad at prevents one-sidedness and generates ideas
“I'm doing stuff that I could pay someone to do, but like, the fact that it's hard, I'm bad at it you know, it's humble, you know, all these different things, that allows me One, I always get ideas that I take back to what I do, but it just, it makes me less on…”