Ryan Holiday

Danica Patrick Pretty Intense Podcast

Jennifer Cawley

Danica Patrick, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality, Health & Fitness, Pretty Intense

4.6 • 995 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Today on The Pretty Intense Podcast we have the fascinating Ryan Holiday. Ryan is a best-selling author. His most recent book is called "Lives of the Stoics" an inspiring guide to the lives of the Stoics themselves, and what the ancients can teach us about happiness, success, resilience and virtue. We talk about how philosophy was meant as a form of counsel, to help guide us through life's challenges. We can really see why it is a shame that philosophy is not more readily available for that guidance. How the teachings can be applied to modern times. How the tools it gives us can save us from bad choices and patterns. Ryan makes philosophy feel so accessible. We hope you enjoy this absolutely enlightening conversation with Ryan Holiday.

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0:00.0	we're a dog tied to a cart. So the cart is moving and you can either like lay down and be dragged or you can sort of
0:13.4	run alongside like it's your call and so the idea that like there these sort of forces
0:17.6	operating on us on the universe that are far beyond us you know whether you believe that's like sort of God or the
0:24.9	gods or just the Logos, to me it kind of all gets you to the same place which is like
0:32.1	you're along for the ride.
0:34.7	Even if you just believe in evolution,
0:37.2	well that's a force that's way outside your control
0:40.0	that's acting on you and humanity at this very moment.
0:43.3	So in 12-step groups, they're like,
0:46.0	like the second step is like accepting a higher power.
0:49.5	They're like, we don't care what the higher power is.
0:52.0	Like it could be anything. Just the point is like you have to accept that it's not you.
0:58.0	I believe that each and every one of us has the power within ourselves to create the life that we really want.
1:06.8	And I want to help give you the tools to make that happen.
1:11.3	I'm Danica Patrick and I'm pretty intense.
1:14.0	Today on the show is Ryan Holiday.
1:17.0	He is a writer.
1:19.0	He has over eight books.
1:21.0	His most recent one just came out called Lives of the Stoics. He is a
1:25.6	philosopher and I'm I just have such a curiosity for all things about life and to me when you as I say philosophize which he did
1:38.1	tell me is a real word you're basically contemplating you're asking why and you're basically contemplating why and you're asking how and so that's what we did in this
1:49.5	episode. We talked about life, death, what makes you happy, why people are the way they are,
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