Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday on Ego and Power | LIVE in LA
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🗓️ 2 March 2024
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
This discussion between Ryan Holiday and Robert Greene took place in September of 2023 at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Ryan and Robert talk about a range of topics from artificial intelligence, the perils of ego, success and failure, the power of self control, and key Stoic reminders like Memento Mori and Amor Fati.
If you want to be a part of a talk similar to this, Ryan Holiday is going on tour to Australia in July. Ryan Holiday Live in Australia will be in Sydney and Melbourne. Tickets are now available for purchase.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:09.0 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, |
| 0:16.4 | justice, temperance, and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics we interview stoic philosophers |
| 0:26.1 | we explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:36.4 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:41.6 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, |
| 0:47.0 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | I'm excited. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm going this summer to one of my favorite places on Earth a place I haven't been in a little over 10 years now |
| 1:07.3 | Place I haven't been since I had kids |
| 1:10.7 | But one of my favorite places to swim on earth, which I'm thinking about now, my ankle |
| 1:14.8 | still messed up, so I'm not running, so I'm just craving awesome places to swim, and I can't |
| 1:20.4 | wait to get in those rock pools in Bondai Beach in Australia, but I'm going to be in Sydney on the 31st of July and then I believe |
| 1:29.1 | Melbourne on the 1st of August. You can find tickets to that at Ryan Holiday.net slash Australia. |
| 1:40.3 | But I won't be bringing Robert Green with me on those dates. |
| 1:44.4 | Unfortunately, I know he's actually the one that told me about those pools. |
| 1:48.4 | So I know he's going to be a little jealous. |
| 1:50.6 | But Robert and I, back in September, did a talk at the Wilshire evil theater talked about |
| 1:56.0 | AI and ego success and failure discipline memento moori and uh... it was just an absolutely awesome experience that the evil theater was a theater I used to run past when I when I lived in that part of Los Angeles when I was just starting out being Robert Green's research assistant. |
| 2:14.0 | It was awesome. |
| 2:15.8 | And I thought I'd bring you that talk as sort of a bonus episode. |
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