Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

Ryan Holiday is our guest today. He is the number one New York time best-selling author of Stillness is the Key.

Ego is the enemy, the obstacle is the way and the daily stoic. He has a forthcoming book called The Lives of Stoics.

I'm super excited about talking to Ryan because I really am a big fan of stoicism.

I think it began with the first time I read God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

You can find Ryan at Ryan Holiday on Instagram or at Daily Stoic or at Daily Dad.

Here is my conversation with Ryan Holiday.

Ryan Holiday, welcome to the American Glutton podcast.

Yeah, thanks man, thanks for having me.

I guess my first experience with stoicism, I don't even know that it is really,

but my first experience with an idea that kind of fits into this was at an A meeting and the serenity prayer.

And it's a very empowering idea and then later I think it was something,

and I don't even really know how to pronounce any of these guys' names,

but like, Epic Tita said, like, it's not what happens,

but how you think about what happens and I'm probably butchering that quote.

But these ideas were so radical to me and so different from anything I've grown up thinking about

or the way I've thought about it.

And your book, The Daily Stoic, has been so helpful to me that I'm just really excited to talk to you

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