Robert Greene on the Wisdom of the Stoics
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 22 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Ryan talks to bestselling author Robert Greene about the importance of understanding, processing, and observing your emotions, our natural tendency as humans to take the path of least resistance, how to deal with anxiety by viewing situations objectively, working on his new book about the laws of the sublime, and more.
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| 1:16.9 | Hey, it's Ryan holiday welcome to another episode of the daily Stoic podcast as you know |
| 1:26.4 | Robert Green is not just one of my writing heroes and one of my mentors, but |
| 1:32.8 | guiding and shaping force in my life and |
| 1:37.9 | yet for as long as I've known Robert and |
| 1:43.0 | as much as |
| 1:45.0 | an influence that he's had in my life I |
| 1:48.9 | I don't I actually haven't spent that much time with them |
| 1:53.7 | Early on in our relationship my job was to drop off of stack of papers or a book at his house or to talk to him on the phone for |
| 2:00.5 | 30 minutes while game instructions and of course we've had dinner and lunches and stuff before but but |
| 2:07.2 | It spends a lot of time doing what he does and I have always felt weird imposing on that or interrupting it and so |
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