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Happy Fourth of July! While you are grilling and relaxing with friends, remember that the comfort you enjoy now grew out of a philosophy that was made to embrace discomfort and to do the right thing, whatever the costs. 

Today’s Ask DS features questions asked from the audience at Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday’s live talk in Los Angeles: 

What does Robert Greene think the future holds with AI and other technology?

What set Ryan Holiday apart from Robert Greene’s other research assistants?

How do Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday know if they have written too much, too little, and decide what needs to be taken out?

Learn more about how the Founders of the United States of America turned to Stoicism:

🎙️ Historian Thomas Ricks on Stoicism and the Founders 

🎙️ How The Greats Pursue Happiness | Jeffrey Rosen

📚 First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas Ricks 

📕 Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday

📚 The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen

🎟 Order tickets to Ryan's tour dates at ryanholiday.net/tour

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There is a hidden cost to everything you own. Things don’t just cost you monetarily. They cost you mentally, too.

🎙️Listen to Kevin Rose’s full interview on The Daily Stoic

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Tune in to hear part 2 of Ryan’s conversation with Max Joseph, the creator behind the new docuseries HAPPINESS on YouTube. Max talks with Ryan about the philosophy, science, and secrets to being truly happy that he learned on his quest around the world talking with experts. 

In addition to being a documentarian, Max Joseph co-hosted MTV’s show Catfish and made his feature film debut in 2015 with We Are Your Friends which starred Zac Efron. 

Some of Max’s other documentaries are BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content and DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader? which features Robert Greene. 

You can connect with Max on YouTube and IG: @maxjoseph

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You may know Max Joseph from MTV’s show Catfish, which he co-hosted for 7 seasons, or from his movie We Are Your Friends which starred Zac Efron. Max’s latest project is a docuseries called HAPPINESS, in which Max is trying to crack the code on the philosophy, science, and secrets behind true happiness. In this Part 1 conversation, Ryan and Max talk about the challenges of documentary filmmaking, relearning to love reading, when to quit a book, how to make the most of literary classics and more. 

Some of Max’s other documentaries are BOOKSTORES: How to Read More Books in the Golden Age of Content and DICKS: Do you need to be one to be a successful leader? which features Robert Greene. 

You can connect with Max on YouTube and IG: @maxjoseph

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So often we forget that the things we rely on every day had to be invented at one point or another, such as the notebook. Roland Allen, author of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper, joins Ryan for a fascinating conversation today about how the notebook was invented and the different ways it revolutionized the world. 

Great news - Roland's book will be out in the US this fall! You can pre-order a copy of The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen at The Painted Porch

UK readers  -The Notebook can now be pre-ordered in paperback!

🎥 Watch the YouTube video of Ryan’s tips for commonplace bookkeeping

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