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#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

CHAPTER

The Irony of Success

Success creates this weird sort of paradox where it's almost like the seeds of success plant the seeds of destruction, right? Because all more obligations come in, more more questions, you get more bound. And everything you say yes to means you are saying no to something else because you can't do everything. So i think we're really bad at comprehending, especially in the moment, opportunity costs. But they are always there.

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