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#226 - Ryan Holiday - Taking Wisdom From The Lives Of The Stoics

Modern Wisdom

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Do You Agree With the Stoics on Information Overload?

Ike: For almost all our evolution, we wanted more than we had. So it's kind of not that surprising that when we have more than we need, we're going to binge. I know the stoics were very anti information overload as well, weren't they? And i think they'd probably have a lot to say about us spending five plus hours per day connected to the rest of the world through a device in our pocket. Yes, y. It's just, itsriv in the same way that you don't need to eat that bag of chitos or watch m s nbc to night. But you do it because,. like, why am i going to watch

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