PASSAGE OF THE WEEK:
None of us are perfect Stoics. Epictetus wasn’t. Marcus Aurelius wasn’t. We’re going to slip. We’re going to fall short—dismally short most likely. But we can’t give up. We must show that we are trying, that we’re actively transforming ourselves to get and be better. We can at least be that. Read: Can You At Least Be This?
YOUTUBE TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
 Over on his YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday is taking viewers along on his book tour for Right Thing, Right Now, through a behind-the-scenes series. The tour and the series are ongoing, so if you want to get a unique look into the process of launching and promoting a book, head over to subscribe to his channel! In first video of the series, after his latest appearance on The TODAY Show, Ryan explains,
“For the first question, Carson [Daly], who follows the Daily Stoic, just goes in a totally different direction. All the prep goes immediately out the window, and we just had to improvise it. So when we think of Stoicism as this idea for resiliency, it’s the idea that you can think on your feet, you can bounce back, that you have the confidence, that it doesn’t matter what direction I’m going to go in, but I’m going to figure it out — and that’s what we did.” Subscribe to Daily Stoic YouTube
PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:
 In a popular episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan Holiday and his research assistant Billy Oppenheimer discuss what the Stoic virtue of justice is actually about, accepting personal responsibility, and the importance of building a coaching tree:
“Your coaching tree isn’t just this sort of generous thing. You need people around you who are good because they challenge you and force you to step up…You benefit from the success of the people below you, especially when you’re fighting and working for the same thing.” Subscribe to Daily Stoic Podcast
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WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:
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“No one today ever says anything bad about curiosity, directly. But if you pay attention, curiosity isn’t really celebrated and cultivated, it isn’t protected and encouraged. It’s not just that curiosity is inconvenient. Curiosity can be dangerous. Curiosity isn’t just impertinent, it’s insurgent. It’s revolutionary.”
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