Hello friends, welcome back. My guest today is the one and only Ryan Holiday.

Marketer, author and all-round legend. I feel very fortunate to have got him on the show.

And today we're talking about his new book, Lives of the Stoics.

Now, typically we'll discuss stoicism with regards to the concepts and how does the philosophy advise that we live our lives?

What does it mean to live a good life?

But rarely do you actually get the wider context of the sort of environment and world that the people writing this philosophy were living in.

And I really think that it adds another layer of nuance and insight into what we can gain from the stoic philosophy by understanding the world that it came from.

Even if you're quite familiar with the learnings from stoicism, I think there'll be a lot to take away from today.

Ryan definitely is worth his salt when it comes to being called an authority on the stoic philosophy.

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