Ladies and gentlemen welcome to Mark Bell's Power Project podcast hosted by

and myself Andrew Zaragoza. This episode is recorded on August 25th and

it is with author and blogger Ryan Holidayiday. Ryan has written several successful books, most of which

cover Stoicism and he runs the Daily Stoic blog and YouTube channel. He has studied Stoicism

for over 15 years and creates some of the best

videos and articles on Stoicism. His YouTube videos have made a huge impact on the Power

Project crew. Even if we're not currently watching one of his videos one of us is

sending each other a video of his because the way he's able to produce you know what

he does is he takes some of these old ancient writings and he reinterprets them and he makes them so powerful

for everything that we do every single day. So that's just one of the many reasons why we're so happy to have

them on today. Today we talked about how the Stoicism philosophy can help during this pandemic that's happening right now.

We talked about how Marcus Aurelius during when he was writing his journaling that later turned into the meditations books.

He was actually writing those during a pandemic.

So a lot of stuff runs parallel to what they were doing back in those days to what we're doing today.

Another philosophy that Stoics would practice would be kind of not getting too excited about something

and not getting too sad about something.

So we talked whether or not having a positive mindset is actually a good or bad practice.

We also asked Ryan what life was like during ancient Roman times.

And again, the way he explains it, you just kind of can close your eyes and imagine that

that was back then and it could very well be right now and of course we got a lot of

background on who Ryan Holliday is how he came to being such a successful writer.

So naturally I'm going to bug him and ask him how to become a better writer.

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