This cultural moment bears witness to a growing distrust of institutions unprecedented in our lifetime. With it comes an unraveling of healthy communication. Tearing others down has taken priority over rising ourselves up. And binary thinking, divisiveness, and fear-based behavior have supplanted sense-making, appreciation for nuance, and mutual respect.
For Ryan Holiday, the antidote is the pursuit of virtueâspecifically, the virtue upon which all other virtues sit, courage: the ability to rise above fear and to do whatâs right.
Returning for his 4th appearance on the podcast, Ryan is one of the worldâs bestselling living philosophers globally lauded for adapting Stoicism to the mainstream. His booksâincluding The Obstacle Is The Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, and Stillness Is the Keyâhave sold over 4 million copies and spent over 300 weeks on the bestseller lists.
Ryanâs expertise in mining the modern-day practicalities of ancient philosophy to live more optimally is coveted by some of the worldâs most successful CEOs, political leaders, world-class athletes, and NFL coaches, and heâs here today to help us make sense of this current moment through the lens of his latest book, Courage Is Calling.
This is a conversation about the challenge of sense-making amidst our national divide. Itâs about the application of time-tested wisdom, the nature of virtue and why doing the right thing is always the right thing.
We cover it all: the perils of individualism, responsibility as a counter-balance to liberty, fear, courage, partisanship, tribalism, and why virtue is both a craft and an action verb.
To read more click here. You can also watch listen to our exchange on YouTube. And as always, the podcast streams wild and free on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.
I relish my conversations with Ryanâhe is a compelling thinker about things that matter, and this one is chock a block with practical wisdom, things we can learn from philosophy and history to make sense of today, and most importantly, to live and be better humans and citizens.
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