PASSAGE OF THE WEEK: When we say Amor Fati, when we say The Obstacle is the Way, we're not talking about just sitting there, being provided with fuel. We're talking about surging forward, pulling ourselves towards the oxygen—going towards the fuel, towards the next thing, never stopping, using all of it. We seek out energy and create energy in the process. We don't wait. We don't stop. We are not passive. We become unstoppable. Read: You Must Go Toward The Oxygen
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:  In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday shares Stoic strategies to set yourself free from our ill-fated attachments to material goods, money, and ambition: "We think that having money, having power, being ambitious, striving upwards is going to make us feel free, but in many cases, it chains us down because we're dependent on somebody else's favor, we're dependent on what our industry allows, what our peers do. We just don't want to lose the things that we've gotten really comfortable having." Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK: In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday speaks with author Richard Dawkins on the biggest misunderstandings of his work and our society's compartmentalization of religion: "Einstein used the word God as a kind of symbol of that which we don't understand. When he said, 'did God have a choice in creating the universe?', he really meant, 'is there only one way for a universe to be?' But I think that you'll find that many of these very intelligent people who describe themselves as religious are probably no more religious than Einstein, which means not religious at all in the kind of sense that a supernaturalist would understand the world. It's a sort of compartmentalized part of their life where they don't even look at what's in the compartment." Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast Listen ad-free with Wondery plus or on Amazon Music with your Prime membership.
WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING: | | " "You should no longer be concerned with what the world says of you but with what you say to yourself." |
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