Is There Something Here, or Is This a Business?

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Alega: My books are built around, fundamentally built around an insight from some one else that you had to have discovered at some point. I wrote a quote from marcus aurelius about turning obstacles upside down and two years later it would be my next book idea. And i remember thinking, oh, what a bad idea, like what you had just written em confessions andik,. i guess i imaginedyou re oin to write a text book or something. It's basically my worst take ever. So i don't know how much ouse to trust it. Butwhen i wous, i would say, the thing a that book and ah for instance, the obstacle...

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

Be sure to check out Ryan's new book: LIVES OF THE STOICS (https://dailystoic.com/preorder).

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Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music.