Hey everyone, welcome to another pop-up how to out as fresh so but boy they don't come

any more double shotty than this. I'm talking to Ryan Holiday. Ryan Holiday is one of my

go to Guru Heroes. He's 34 years old which is just so hard to believe if you know

obvious work, if you don't know obvious work, then have this as a little appetizer so

they can deeper dive into anything that he's ever done. I first got switched on to him

with his book called Ego is the enemy which I read when it came out in 2016. I thought

he was one kind of writer, I then investigated him more, read him more and realized he

was another kind of writer and then I read Obstacle as the way and I thought oh he can do

this too and then he brought up book called Stunners is the key and how come he knows all

this stuff well because he is a student of this thing called Stoicism which takes

back to two and a half thousand years ago and he now has the first book in this four book

series to do with the virtues of Stoicism which are not necessarily in any order. Temperance,

judgment, wisdom and courage. His new book is called Courage is Calling. He's also written

a really really useful book called The Daily Stake, 366 lessons and readings to wake

up to every morning. It is a well-known scientific fact that the first thing we think about

in the morning is the last thing we thought about at night and if that was a bad thing

that's not the greatest start to our day and well begun is half done. However, even if

the last thing you thought about last night was a good thing, a great thing, a joyous thing,

the happiest thing in the whole wide world, it may not be useful for the next day. You

may need to to sort of reset your agenda for the day. If you wake up in the morning,

turn on your light and read The Daily Stoke and it's all dated for you there 366 days

including a day for a leap year, that will flick the right switches that are most helpful

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