The Daily Stoic - BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

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Starting point is 00:01:28 And he's writing this journal. in a tent in a battlefield. So his perspective is amazing. And he once wrote that the soul becomes dyed the color of its thoughts. And I think about that all the time. The cost to me of living in a way that's inconsistent and not aligned with what feels right, what models the right thing for my children, what feels inherently true to me, it's too expensive.

Starting point is 00:01:55 I mean, look, here's the thing. She's totally right. That's exactly what Marcus really said. exactly what Stoicism is about. She's just not living or acting in accordance with it in any way. If you did, you'd have an intervention with your dad whose life would be died with his horrible, negative, mean, bullying thoughts all the time. Are you stupid? Are you a stupid person? You are a rude, terrible person. You shouldn't be working for CNN.

Starting point is 00:02:22 Don't talk to me that way. You're just a lightweight. Gavin Newscom has admitted that he is learning disabilities. Elon Omar is garbage. She's garbage. Her friends are garbage. So he's totally incoherent. And he goes, thank. Thank you. I'll give you another great Marksurelius quote Ivanka. He says, waste no more time talking about what a good person is like. Just fucking be one. Look, this is just obviously incredibly cringe, the sort of performative philosophy, the popularity of stoicism with people who have no idea that this is a philosophy built around an ethical core, which justice is the true north of the philosophy. I'll tell you what stoicism is not. Stoicism is not a way for you not to have

Starting point is 00:03:10 to care about the consequences of the things that are happening around you. It's not a way to turn inward and turn away from other people, from what's happening. happening in the world from not having to care. It's not, oh, I'm just going to think nice thought so I can have a nice life. I'm not going to let critics or criticism penetrate because then I'd have to actually make some changes or take some accountability or stare in the face the reality of what I have been complicit in, what I am responsible for. Ivanka Trump, quoting Marx Reyes, I mean, that's as eye-roly as you can get. The only similarity you have with the Aurelius family is that you're a comidus, and so are your shitty

Starting point is 00:03:58 brothers. Look, nobody loves seeing people talk about Marks Ruelius and Stoicism more than me. This is what gets me out of bed in the morning. My life's work is getting people to pick up meditation. So that's awesome. I love to see it. Also, this is as cringe as it possibly gets because it's not real and it's totally missing the point. You know, Marcus Aurelius wasn't just saying these things for his health. He wasn't just quoting random bits of Stoic wisdom. He was trying to live it, right? Trying to live it, trying to put it into practice. That's the whole point of meditations. As I said, he's fighting to be the person that philosophy tried to make him, not performatively, but in his private journal. These were reminders to himself to do better. And yes, sometimes they're about,

Starting point is 00:04:43 you know, directing your thoughts properly. But most of the reminders in meditations are ethical, reminders, reminders to be a better person, to follow the Stoic principles, to put them into practice, to be a better person than his job and his wealth would let him get away with being. You know, Marks Rilis is the most powerful person in the world. And he wrote obsessively about what that responsibility meant, about justice, about not letting power corrupt you. Stoicism is not a brand, it's a practice. And it demands honesty. It demands self-awareness. It demands accountability. It demands doing the right thing even when it costs you something, even when it's painful, even when it would mean, I don't know, confronting your horrible family

Starting point is 00:05:29 members. So no, quoting Marxist doesn't make you a stoic, doesn't make you wise. You have to live and act with integrity. You have to be involved in public life in a way that is beyond reproach, in a way that contributes rather than extracts value from the government. government.

The Daily Stoic - BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump

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