Ask Daily Stoic: Who Are Some Famous Figure Influenced By Stoicism?
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🗓️ 15 February 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Ryan talks about putting the finishing touches on his upcoming book, Lives of the Stoics.
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| 1:52.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the weekend edition of Daily Stoic. I am sitting here in Texas. I am just putting in the final, final touches on lives of the Stoic. |
| 2:07.0 | So, basically what happens is you turn in a manuscript and then it comes back with edits. And it is never a pleasant experience to see the red lines, to see people who don't understand, you know, what you're trying to do or have objections about it. |
| 2:23.0 | One of the best rules I've heard about writing that I actually think is sort of great feedback for life in general. And I forget who it comes from, but I heard it from the author, Neil Strauss. |
| 2:32.0 | The idea is that when somebody tells you something is wrong, they're always right. And when they tell you how to fix what's wrong with your writing, they're almost always wrong. |
| 2:42.0 | And the point is that if something isn't working for the reader, they're right because it isn't working for them. When they try to tell you how to fix it, they're not writers, so they don't usually know the best way to fix it. |
| 2:56.0 | And I actually think this is great advice for business. This is great advice for life. When someone is frustrated with you and someone complains about something, when someone gets upset with you, they're right in the sense that those are their feelings. |
| 3:10.0 | They don't like something that you're doing. They don't like some part of the experience. They're having a problem. Now, if their solution is totally a separate and distinct fact from this piece of information. |
| 3:22.0 | So when we get sort of complaints for daily stoke, for instance, it's like, okay, obviously you have to fix this person's problem and you have to make them feel better. |
| 3:30.0 | And then when they're saying do X to make this right, they're not usually right, but there's clearly some problem in the process that you want to address. |
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