
165. Ryan Holiday on Stoicism
The Good Life: Andrew Leigh in Conversation
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Is There Anything Really Stoic About Defacing a Tucker Max Billboard?
There's nothing really stoic about defacing a Tucker Max billboard so that you can provoke a feminist backlash and sell more of his books. And my first book was wrestling with just because one's profession calls for certain things or just because incentives are aligned in a certain way. Is that really what one should be spending their life doing? Do you believe in free will? Well the stoics would say that there were these dogs tied to a cart. I'm probably somewhere close to that.
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