Ryan Holiday: Why I'm Embracing Death in 2025 (E316)
The High Performance Podcast
High Performance
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday is a bestselling author and expert on stoic philosophy, known for his books like ‘The Obstacle Is the Way’ and ‘Daily Stoic’. Through his work, he helps others apply ancient wisdom to modern-day challenges, exploring themes like discipline, perseverance, and self-awareness.
In this episode, Jake talks with Ryan about stoicism and how its principles can improve everyday life. Ryan covers ways to overcome procrastination, build discipline, and face life’s challenges with purpose and clarity.
He shares insights on the power of reframing obstacles as opportunities and the danger of living in constant comparison with others. Ryan also unpacks the stoic practice of ‘Memento Mori’, a powerful reminder of mortality, and how it can be used as a tool for living a more meaningful life.
This conversation is packed with practical lessons for living a more intentional, disciplined, and authentic life, grounded in the wisdom of stoicism and Ryan’s own journey.
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| 0:00.0 | Love High Performance? Next week's episodes are available right now only on the high performance app. |
| 0:05.7 | Watch or listen to bestselling author of the Daily Stoic Ryan Holiday exclusively on the high performance app. |
| 0:14.1 | Every single one of us at birth was given a terminal diagnosis. It is the one prophecy that never fails. |
| 0:22.3 | We don't really know what we want. |
| 0:23.9 | So we want what other people want. |
| 0:25.7 | To be like everyone else because it's safer, |
| 0:28.1 | it's a betrayal of an incredible gift. |
| 0:30.6 | Life is full of hard things. |
| 0:32.5 | We practice doing hard things. |
| 0:33.9 | So when hard things happen, |
| 0:34.8 | we have experience in dealing with hard things. |
| 0:37.2 | We have |
| 0:37.5 | muscles that allow us to handle that. That is the voice of bestselling author Ryan Holliday, who joins us |
| 0:45.0 | on today's episode of High Performance. I'm Jay Comfrey. And in today's conversation, we explore |
| 0:50.1 | the mind of one of the leading experts of the stoic thinking. And as you probably know by now, |
| 0:55.4 | I'm a huge fan of the stoics, the way they thought, the things they wrote about, the behaviors they lived |
| 1:00.5 | by. In fact, I have the words Memento Mori tattooed on my left wrist, which reminds me about the |
| 1:06.2 | practice of being aware of my mortality, developing an intimacy with my mortality and the power that should |
| 1:12.1 | have on my everyday thinking to give me some urgency, but also some perspective. |
| 1:16.8 | And in this brilliant chat with Ryan, we're going to explore how he balances creativity with |
| 1:21.1 | discipline, what it means to focus on effort over outcome and how to tackle obstacles with |
| 1:25.6 | resilience and grace. You can also expect to hear him |
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