Ryan Holiday
17 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 31, 2025 by Ryan Holiday · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Holiday: Pursuing an enduring posthumous legacy has zero value
“I think a lot of people, they spend all this time trying to create this, not just success now, but this monument that endures for all time, as if that's of value. Like, it isn't. It's not only something you don't control, even if it was guaranteed. It doesn't …”
Dec 31, 2025 neutral
Ryan Holiday: Successful people never feel like they have truly arrived
“If you talk to successful people, nobody ever gets, and I don't mean that they're never successful. I just mean nobody feels like they arrived, that they finally got, you know, more out of it than they put into it. That never happens.”
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025
Ryan Holiday reveals his books have sold roughly ten million copies.
“My books have sold millions of copies, which I take to mean there are millions of people who don't like me, like not just millions of people who saw this stuff and then decide, like, I would argue more people saw it and decided not to buy it than saw it and de…”
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Holiday: Historical Accuracy Matters Less Than Moral Lessons in Kids' Stories
“Whether they're true or not is much less important to me than whether they have some kind of moral lesson that sticks with them that, by the way, when they get into situations in life I can be like, this is like that thing that we learned about.”
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 positive
Holiday: Ancient Stoicism was repetitive practice for crisis, not abstract theory
“We tend to think of philosophy as, like, theoretical and abstract and very high-minded, but for the ancients, it was this kind of thing that you practiced and you went over, over, and over again so that, like, in big moments, like, when you have a big life dec…”
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Holiday argues listening to audiobooks at 3x speed destroys true comprehension.
“To really understand something, you gotta spend a lot of time with it. It can't be, I think people are always looking for shortcuts, you know, and they're like, oh, I read this on three X speed on audiobook, and you're like, I don't know if that's, I don't kno…”
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Dec 31, 2025
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Holiday argues ed-tech shortcuts fail because true learning requires difficult friction.
“I think sometimes we look for technological solutions to make things easy, and the whole point is some things are supposed to be hard. You know, it's supposed to be difficult, and it is in the difficult part that you're scratching it into the steel, and then i…”
Dec 31, 2025 negative
Holiday argues decades of corporate conformity permanently destroys visionary leadership potential.
“The system is shaping you every day that you are in it. And you are internalizing its values and its personality and its identity. And the idea that, like, yeah, that you're gonna go along to get along for 40 years and then be a visionary, rule-breaking leader…”