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#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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The Most Powerful Man in the World Needs It Too

The emperor octavian is this stoic athenadorus. He actually says, look, as the emperor, you will be provoked. You will be angry. Hesk, but i want you to recite the letter of every letter of the alphabet before you do anything. That's like two thousand year old advice that you would also give your seven-year-old and yet the most powerful man in the world needs it too. George washingtonis one of his favorite expressions, it actually comes from a line about the stoic cato. The idea of the pause, i think, is super important in all things, right? Because i very rarely ar is that immediate a solution

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