Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-11-10
Books mentioned on None of This Is Unfamiliar | How Do You Stop Caring What Other People Think?
The world has always been chaotic. Empires rise and fall.
Ryan Holiday discussed The Odyssey. Also mentioned: Meditations by Aurelius Marcus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Discussed“I believe Epictetus said this, but I think Marcus Aurelius also reflected on it in meditations, how we must not worry about what others say, think and do and only focus on what you do.”
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The Odyssey
Discussed“They, they just recently found off of a mummy in, uh, in Egypt, a line from the Odyssey or one of the earliest versions of the Odyssey that we have, uh, because they would reuse scraps of papyrus.”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing, right now, and wisdom takes work. So there's a long series for me, seven years of work.”
Plugged Courage Is Calling
“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing, right now, and wisdom takes work. So there's a long series for me, seven years of work.”
Plugged Wisdom Takes Work
“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing, right now, and wisdom takes work. So there's a long series for me, seven years of work.”
Plugged Right Thing, Right Now
“Courage is calling, discipline is destiny, right thing, right now, and wisdom takes work. So there's a long series for me, seven years of work.”
Passing The Republic
“Zeno wrote a thing called Zeno's Republic, his version, his response to Plato's Republic. We could have that basically anything written by the Stoics prior to whatever that eruption is could be in this library.”