When everything falls apart, philosophy remains. That is the quiet argument running through this episode of The Daily Stoic. Ryan Holiday opens with a historical reminder: Cato watching Caesar…
Ryan Holiday — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Ryan Holiday has appeared on 20 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Daily Stoic, The Rich Roll Podcast, The Shawn Ryan Show. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Ryan said
“The whole point is that the Odyssey is complicated and it's hard to know who the good guy is. Odysseus in his Odyssey is a reflection of the human undergoing any kind of ordeal. He's both like the best and the worst. We contain that in ourselves too.”
— Ryan Holiday
“Perseverance is just sort of persistence on steroids. Wanting something really bad and being willing to sacrifice for it is one thing. But life asks so much more of you than that.”
— Ryan Holiday
“Should it surprise us that news is always breaking but never fully arrives?”
— Ryan Holiday
“You are the product that's being sold when you consume this free news, gotta understand that.”
— Ryan Holiday
Episode appearances
20
Oprah Winfrey discovered Stoicism through a novel. That fact alone is a testament to how the ancient philosophy travels—not through academic journals or university lecture halls, but through…
In the final years of his life, Marcus Aurelius was not a serene philosopher-king calmly contemplating eternal truths. He was a sick, exhausted, and profoundly lonely man who had watched nearly…
Ryan Holiday on Bill Maher: Why Stoicism Is Having a Moment Ryan Holiday walked onto the set of Real Time with Bill Maher knowing exactly what he was in for. Before the taping, he had called…
The Predictable Chaos of Parenting Ryan Holiday opens this episode with a small domestic drama: he ordered fast food for his kids, and it arrived without the sauce they wanted. The children were…
The Advice Ryan Got Before Running His First 50K Ryan Holiday was training for a 50-kilometer ultra marathon through the stoic sites of Rome when he stumbled upon a blog called Ultra Running…
We All Need To Be Constrained Success often does something counterintuitive: it removes the constraints that kept us productive, sane, and grounded. Ryan Holiday and David Epstein, in a…
In the baths of Diocletian, ancient Rome’s noisiest venue where three thousand people jostled, Seneca didn’t flee the chaos. He sought it out. The philosopher described the cacophony—fat men being…
The Marcus Aurelius Quote Steven Pressfield Couldn’t Ignore Steven Pressfield’s new novel The Arcadian opens with a Marcus Aurelius epigraph: “Life is warfare and a journey far from home.” Ryan…
Every day your business delays adopting AI, you fall two days behind. That is the blunt arithmetic Ryan Holiday offers in this bonus episode of The Daily Stoic, before pivoting to a more ancient…
"Your Fellow Americans": Peter Santenello on Why Traveling America Changes How You See It Peter Santenello has traveled to 85 countries and lived in four of them, but when he returned to the…
In 2022, a Texas school principal read the children’s book I Need a New Butt! to his students. The kids, predictably, started saying “butt” too much. Parents complained. The superintendent fired…
The Odyssey as a Mirror for Our Own Moral Struggles Ryan Holiday joined Rich Roll to discuss Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey — not as a film critic, but as someone who has spent years studying the…
Here is a reader-facing podcast summary of the provided transcript, written according to your specifications. --- The Roman city of Pompeii was buried in ash in 79 AD, but a walk through its…
The Stoic Survival Guide: Ryan Holiday on Marcus Aurelius, Ego, and Raising Resilient Kids Ryan Holiday walks into the interview carrying a stack of books. He hands Shawn Ryan a worn copy of…
The Art of Saying No: Ryan Holiday’s Office as a Stoic Workshop The most important object in Ryan Holiday’s office isn’t a rare book or a piece of ancient art. It’s a sign that simply says “no.”…
Carli Lloyd was cut from the U.S. under-21 national team in 2004. She thought it was the end. Instead, it became the dividing line in her life. "I kind of break up my life into two halves," she…
The Real Work Isn't Quoting—It's Living The philosopher Epictetus had a blunt diagnosis for people who can't stop talking about what they've just learned: they're like an upset stomach, spewing…
In the mid-2000s, the "American Apparel girl" was everywhere—on Tumblr, on Pinterest, in real life. She didn't look rich or polished. She looked like she had just rolled off a rooftop in Manhattan…
The Choice That Kept Dr. Edith Eger Alive In Auschwitz When Dr. Edith Eger was 16 years old, she was trying on dresses for a date with her boyfriend when the knock came. Within hours, she and her…
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