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They can love you or hate you. But really, the only thing that matters is who you are to yourself. What matters is whether you are living up to your standards, whether you’re following those virtues of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

Ask DS:

• What did the Stoics say about balancing between personal and community trials?

• What is Ryan’s Stoic advice for a new entrepreneur?

• Why has philosophy from ancient Athens and Rome stuck and not philosophy from the Germanic tribes?

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Today, on the 23rd anniversary of 9/11, let us be full of love. Let us tell those we love that we absolutely and totally love them.

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Nate Silver is an American statistician, poker player, and New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail -- but Some Don't . Nate’s latest book is On The Edge: The Art of Risking Everything, where he dives into the worlds of Doyle Brunson, Peter Thiel, Sam Bankman-Fried, Sam Altman, and more. These professional high risk-takers fall into the group that Nate describes as “The River”, a community of people that have increasing amounts of wealth and power in our society.

Nate came to the Daily Stoic studio to talk with Ryan about incentives in large media corporations with independent media, ethical challenges of audience capture, financial motives in journalism, conflicts between truth-seeking and profitability, the dynamics of tech versus traditional media, effective altruism, and much more. 

Nate is the founder of FiveThirtyEight and the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and The Noise. 

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Go read up on the candidates. Check them for the virtues necessary in a leader. Understand no one will check every box, but pick the one you can best trust with the responsibilities of power and the common good.

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Life is too short to be bitter, too short for feuds, too short to be driven to madness by someone else’s bad deeds.

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Not everything that’s hard is good of course, but almost everything good (and worth it) is hard.

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Why did Robert Greene advise Ryan to turn down his first book offer? How does Ryan balance writing about his personal interests and what his audience is expecting? Billy Oppenheimer, Ryan's research assistant, is asking Ryan these questions and many more in today's episode.

Ryan talks about what people get wrong about mentorship, the evolution of his writing style, how the writings of the Stoics have influenced him, what his favorite part of the creative process is, and more.

Billy Oppenheimer is Ryan Holiday’s research assistant and the writer behind the newsletter, Six at 6 on Sunday. To read more of his work, check out his website billyoppenheimer.com.

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While it may seem like a “waste of time” today, you’re paying that debt for a better version of your future self tomorrow.

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Stoicism was ancient to the ancients too. It’d been old for a long time.

Ask DS:

• What are the Stoics teachings about “know thyself”? 
• What are the main principles of Stoicism that people can apply when they struggle to achieve work life balance?
• Does Stoicism have the potential to be a social or political movement?

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Wisdom tells us that things are as they always have been…and always will be. So don’t take it all so personally.

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