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Ryan Holiday — Podcast Appearances & AI Summaries
Ryan Holiday has appeared on 16 podcast episodes in our AI-summarized catalog, including The Daily Stoic, The Oprah Podcast, The Rich Roll Podcast. Every appearance below has a free 5-minute AI summary.
What Ryan said
“If anyone tells you that someone is speaking ill of you, tell yourself: if they really knew me, they'd have said something even worse.”
— Epictetus (via Ryan Holiday)
“Doing more is going to make you win is why so many entrepreneurs are miserable. They've bought into the idea that if I just do one more, I will become better, bigger, richer. And in fact, it's usually one of the 10 things you need to stop doing right now.”
— Ryan Holiday
“It's not things that upset us—it's our opinion about things. When you realize that you can decide what this is gonna mean for you, you can decide whether this is something that knocks you backwards or this is something that you use to spring forward.”
— Ryan Holiday
“If I'm going to feel better about this later, why am I torturing myself about it now? Why can't I borrow that perspective of some distance and space now instead of feeling transformed by it a decade from now?”
— Ryan Holiday
“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
16The 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…
Let Them Talk | The Discipline Nobody Talks About The episode opens with a Stoic provocation: when someone speaks ill of you, Epictetus advises you to tell yourself, "If they really knew me,…
"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 Stoic philosopher Epictetus, born a slave in the Roman Empire, and Marcus Aurelius, the most powerful man in the world, were equalized by one fundamental limitation: the vast majority of life…
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…
The ability to step back and question your own thinking is one of the most important skills there is—and it is rarely taught. In this conversation, Ryan Holiday and David Pakman explore why…
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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