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The Daily Stoic

Ryan And Guy Raz On Controlling Only What You Can

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Business, 694393, Society & Culture, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Education, Ryan Holiday, Philosophy, Stoic Philosophy, Stoicism, Self-improvement

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

When a recent Q&A session between Ryan and Robert Greene fell apart just hours before the conference due to emergency health concerns, the moment presented Ryan with an opportunity to lean into the Stoic practice of controlling only what one can. Thinking quickly and without panic, Ryan called his friend, NPR host and journalist Guy Raz, who was planning to sit front-row at the event, and asked if he wanted to fill in. Guy’s enthusiastic acceptance and willingness to jump into such an unusual situation led to the Q&A session and surrounding discussion that we present to you today. He and Ryan answer questions from the audience about what Marcus Aurelius would make of today’s notion of kindness, why Ryan favors formlessness, the daily habits that one can change in order to become a better Stoic, and more.

Ryan’s conversation with Robert Greene has been rescheduled, and you can go to ryanholiday.net/tour for dates and tickets.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.

0:12.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

0:21.0

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

0:32.0

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

0:40.0

Thank you for listening.

0:52.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

0:59.0

Life is unpredictable. You make these plans, but as they say, you know, we propose God disposes.

1:07.0

You know back in March, I had two really exciting events, Robert Green and I were going to do a big conversations in front of a live audience, Q&A, Mean Greed.

1:19.0

Just he and I doing what I've been lucky enough to do with him now for many years. I was excited to be able to bring that to an audience and then we got to San Francisco and Robert was just rocked with a bunch of health issues.

1:35.0

He ended up having to call a hotel doctor. He went to the emergency room twice. It was very scary. He was in a lot of pain.

1:45.0

And he was he would get he was going to get on that stage, even if it killed him. And so we ended up pulling the emergency break.

1:58.0

We're looking we're going to have to cancel both events. And then this last minute thing, save us, which is I got a text from someone I knew who lived in San Francisco was coming to the event and they wanted to have dinner beforehand.

2:11.0

And it was Guy Ross. Guy Ross, the amazing author of how I built this that one of the greatest podcasts about entrepreneurship on the planet.

2:19.0

So I also got a great kids podcast called while in the world is a new podcast called the great creators, just an awesome dude, old school journalist, one of the OGs in public radio, just a great dude, super smart dude, his wife Hannah Ross is amazing also.

2:37.0

And she let me impose blow up their dinner date steal her husband and he saved me Robert and this audience from being very, very disappointed.

2:48.0

And Guy Ross and I ended up having a great conversation, which is what I'm bringing you in today's episode. I think you're really going to like it. If you've never heard Guy Ross's stuff, I don't know where you've been living.

3:00.0

You can check out his podcast everywhere. We carry how I built this in the paint of porch bookstore, a big bestseller, a lovely book that I was lucky enough to be a part of.

3:08.0

Which is great book. I've been on his wisdom from the top podcast, which you can listen to.

3:13.0

But that brings me to the announcement that I wanted to tie here on today's episode. We are of course rescheduling that date in Seattle. And we are adding a new date, Robert Green and I in Los Angeles in September.

3:26.0

So you can go to Ryan Holiday dot net slash tour to check out both of those. We're going to be at the Wilshire Eble Theater on September 19th.

3:35.0

We're going to be at the more theater in Seattle on September 21st. You can go to Ryan holiday dot net slash tour for tickets and a special very, very big thank you to Dawson Carroll, the podcast producer here, video producer.

3:50.0

I mentioned a couple times. I think actually recently again. I took Robert to the doctor, but you know, Robert was looking like he was doing better and then he got worse and then Dawson took Robert to the hospital.

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