Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-06-15
Ryan Holiday & Billy Oppenheimer: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
How Ryan Holiday's New Book Completely Changed His View Of Stoicism (Ft. Billy Oppenheimer)
Billy Oppenheimer discussed Immigration and the Constraints of Justice by Ryan Pevnick and The True Believer by Eric Hoffer. Ryan Holiday discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus, The 50th Law by 50 Cent and others, None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney, Dying Every Day by James Romm, The Fall by Albert Camus, and Dereliction of Duty by H. R. McMaster.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Immigration and the Constraints of Justice
Discussed“And the topic of this book seems like one of the harder ones to find that overlap or... and you, the title you didn’t go with, ‘Justice is Insurmountable’.”
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Meditations
Discussed“most of where like Marcus R talks about Justice like literally dozens of times yeah in meditations”
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None Shall Sleep
Discussed“Well, you also have the North Star chapter in this book.”
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Dying Every Day
Discussed“I remember reading James Romm's Dying Every Day during the takeover and restructuring of American Apparel and going, 'Oh, this is much more familiar than it should be to me.'”
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The True Believer
Discussed“Eisenhower like mentioned his book the True Believer or something”
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The Fall
Discussed“and it turns out that it was like a person that fell and like oh that's the story of kamu uh the fall”
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Dereliction of Duty
Discussed“HR McMasters who's a Fant Stokes he wrote this book called their eltion of Duty”
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Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Ego Is the Enemy
“which that exact story was in the intro of ego is the enemy”
Plugged Ego Is the Enemy
“Which... that exact story was in the intro of "Ego is the Enemy" and I cut it at some point.”
Plugged Ego Is the Enemy
“Like the book was built around it of "Ego."”
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“I have a line in 'Discipline and Destiny' because I was very impressed with Queen Elizabeth II.”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“I mean, I have a weird relationship with my first book, which is like a version of myself that I don't see myself as anymore.”
Passing The Next
“This is all funny because this is in the next book.”
Plugged Courage Is Calling
“In the afterward of "Courage is Calling," I discuss how insidious these things are.”







