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Episode:

• A microphone strapped to the back of a running goat
• Drop out with a plan
• School is a great default option
• The Obstacle Is the Way
• Philosophy as Practice
• Academics spoil good philosophy
• Thoreau on philosophy's purpose being to solve the practical problems of life
• Cheap popularizers stealing classical philosophy to sell self-help books
• Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story. Why philosophy? "So, I can have deep thoughts about being unemployed"
• Nietzsche and academics (from On the Warrior's Path)
• The importance of a good translation
• The essence of Stoicism
• We don't control the world around us. We control how we respond to it
• Stoicism is about character building
• Stoicism is not The Secret. It's not about magically wishing things to be different than they are.
• Brutally pragmatic realism
• Complaining and whining is not going to make things easier
• Stoicism and Epicureanism as yin and yang
• The Stoicism of Ikkyu Sojun
• Cynic philosophy
• Diogenes was hilarious but just a tad over the edge
• Stoicism in the Hagakure
• Stoicism is not simply something you think. It's something you do
• Sweeping the room
• Ryan's mentor, Robert Greene
• In martial arts, the least athletic guys need to have the best technique
• Robert E. Howard: a master class in Stoicism
• Visualizing the worst case scenario vs. nocebo
• When ambition stops being a motivating force and it becomes an obsession
• Theodore Roosevelt and the limits of willpower
• The publishing business is inherently conservative
• Ryan's goats
• Life is short. Do ridiculous things
• ryanholiday.net