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#541 - Ryan Holiday - Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life

Modern Wisdom

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It's Fucking Hard and It Breaks Your Heart

It seems to me that discipline, even in the modern world, is still quite a bourgeois sort of luxurious position to be in. There's Murphy's Law at what can go wrong will and another law that says like it always takes longer than you expect. Like every book I start, it starts off exciting. It's funny. And then right into the trough of despair.

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