"I can help you get more of what you want create the highest form of discipline how not to care about what other people think that's the meaning of life right there so Brian holiday the modern day phil..."

"Ryan how do you summarize what you do and why you do it why I do it is much easier for me to articulate which is that I get better for doing it like we tend to think of philosophy as this thing that y..."

"really reframed in a lot of people's minds is that is the word discipline and what it means yeah because the definition of discipline that I understood before discipline is Destiny was this kind of pa..."

"the beginning of meditations Marx realist he talks about his brother like at length he doesn't call him his step brother calls him his brother and he says you know what I learned from my brother he sa..."

"discipline gives us freedom Epictetus is this slave he's a slave in Nero's court and imagine the contrast this person who has no Freedom completely impoverished their body their work their labor is al..."

"and the importance of keeping those commitments sure and I'm thinking when I say that I mean the small things I'm gonna do this yeah I mean it's Jordan Peterson might say like I'm gonna make my bed we..."

"that muscle of like I told myself I'm gonna do this hard thing now that hard thing is approaching and am I going to come up with an excuse am I going to give myself a way out or I'm going to do it and..."

"like if you can cultivate that you're Golden That's where books come from that's where businesses come from that's where losing weight comes all of it comes from the ability to do that hard thing that..."

"what I mean I kind of try to think about it that way it's like just because I've had a bad week where I was over scheduled or distracted or I was sick or whatever and I wasn't writing that doesn't mea..."

"because my Hardware seems to be this kind of identity I I now believe about who Stephen Bartlett is yeah and I'm just kind of following the instruction manual of that of those that belief sir so how d..."

"days sometimes that's really visible and you're moving a lot of stuff around or you're creating a lot of stuff and then other days you're moving something a millimeter this way you made positive progr..."

"and then weirdly you you you end up actually doing better work because you're focusing all your energy like where it has impact I'm sure you've seen this where you know a clip that you didn't think wo..."

"want to root your sense of whether you're doing a good job whether you're succeeding you want to root that as as much as possible internally as otherwise somebody else determines whether you're good o..."

"just be very well read very informed or steeped in philosophy but to be physically weak and and this isn't this isn't uh meaning that you have to be able to lift super heavy weights but the the idea i..."

"hopefully you know better skills and those moments make us confront our egos yes yeah there's an ego death in losing being rejected realizing you're not what you thought you were or it's not going the..."

"how did you tune into that voice whispering you know it's it's uh for the Stokes it was like this kind of nightly or daily conversation with the self this is the art of journaling this is what Marcus ..."

"easier than than the total rebuild this third point I believe it was of wisdom I've been asking myself a lot recently I sit and have conversations with some incredibly smart people yourself included a..."

"but it's also about the forcing you to go through the process of figuring out what you think and why and the problems with it the contradictions of it like for being forced to write it down is just so..."

"transformative for me as a person the fact that you know millions of people have read them now and listened to them and watched them all over the world that's just like like even if it was never publi..."

"years you know like on its face Marcus realizes meditations should be inaccessible impractical incomprehensible like you have the most powerful man on Earth emperor of Rome literally worshiped as a Go..."

"say about how we confront unexpected crises in our lives that we are clearly not responsible for you know a cancer diagnosis skip firing get we get fired from work we something else bad happens that w..."

"he says he's basically saying that now that it's happened what opportunity does it present you and it doesn't mean oh hey you know your mother died that's great for your business that's not what he's ..."

"right whether it's this pandemic or it's this downturn in your business or it's this you know employee who stole from you or whatever you go this is practice this is reps right like I am going to emer..."

"way to do it you know um I've said this to people it's like hey we just lived through this massive historical event together we're here like we made it you know it's not to say anything about the peop..."

"just realize as you go through things exactly what Seneca says like the person who hasn't been tested doesn't know but when you have been tested when you have gone through things you can take from tha..."

"for it I was watching a video you made about um swistoic questions that are really important to ask ourselves I guess to keep us on track to some degree um what kind of questions do you find yourself ..."

"what did the stock say about like relationships and romantic relationships and love I mean what they say about them to me is secondary to the fact that they were also in them right like you know it's ..."

"you she was basically saying like we're responsible for our own emotions like she's doing what she's doing and I am feeling the frustration I can't make that her fault right and I think about that oft..."

"know you're putting this thing over the relationship um Twitter is its own set of philosophical issues I just I you just watch people voluntarily seek out conflict and things to be upset about like if..."

"um somehow I said he deleted it from his phone for this very reason last year he doesn't tweet anymore it's not involved in Twitter because he said when I look at the relationship I had with this devi..."

"yeah I don't have any of them on my phone either and I don't know the password to the Daily stoic or my personal Twitter account so if there's something I need to say I can talk to someone who works f..."

"yeah I think the more you read that you you come up with some sort of themes it boils down eastern and western philosophy kind of like a horseshoe you know they come come together towards the the ends..."

"the the power of your car on the wheels that aren't touching the ground you know like you want to put it where it's going to get traction that's the a key thing in life is this up to you or not number..."

"things that you believe I mean look I think we evolved traveling very long distances I mean some of the oldest evidence of human beings in America are a set of footprints of a mother carrying and sett..."

"okay and you have that as a ritual every day every day every single day yeah yeah try to take a walk every day what else are sort of rituals in your life the daily rituals so I would add as a third on..."

"there so what is the positive contribution what is the Legacy you're leaving not how much money did you make you know what records did you break but what is the What is the contribution you are making..."

"of the most essential philosophical practices there is like why do we procrastinate why do we not prioritize our health why do we not do the stuff that we know we should do it's because we think we ha..."

"where you know you might never see someone die in your whole life until you are in a hospital bed you know we have we live in even more of a bubble you know we are even more sheltered we are even more..."

"time is ticking by now in this very moment how am I spending it there's a sound timer oh yeah yeah that's beautiful it sounds to remind me of that very very fate of all these things Ryan what is the w..."

"what I mean it's like like getting this big fight to leave the house and then we get there and then we're like waiting in the car five minutes to go in you know or whatever right like uh or you're so ..."

"like the root of so much of the tension or problems that we we have and the question I ask is why why do I need them to be a certain way yeah you don't you go I need everything to be a certain way or ..."

"I'm at my best but what if that routine becomes almost a religion which becomes almost a kind of fragility you know that's the problem [ __ ] [ __ ] what am I gonna do I need I need my special socks y..."

"start to feel warm and then I get distracted you know like you can you can know what it's nice to have but not need it of all the of all the things that you know you've read about in um stoic philosop..."

"given thing at Birth right and so I don't know I meant I might just take one one extra shot at that if this um if you want to be successful at that point when you're laying there on your deathbed yeah..."

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"I like that I don't think I would make that many radical changes in my life like I wake up early I go outside and spend time with my kids I take them to school and I sit down and I write and I write f..."

"it's what the role of the human is and so I I haven't seen a ton of change in my life and that I haven't been here for 80 years but you know I remember when Google books came out and a bunch of author..."