Episode · Modern Wisdom · 2022-10-20
Chris Williamson & Ryan Holiday: books mentioned on Modern Wisdom (Oct 2022)
Profound Lessons From Stoic Philosophy - Ryan Holiday
Chris Williamson discussed Atomic Habits by James Clear, Why Buddhism is True by Robert Wright, and The Forgotten Highlander by Alistair Urquhart. Ryan Holiday discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Atomic Habits
Discussed“yes it seems to me that ever since James clear's book Atomic habits this has been something everyone's thinking about right that your outcomes are a lagging measure of your inputs”
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Meditations
Discussed“and then in meditations Marcus realiz so you can imagine he the emperor of Rome he's having to think about this exact thing and he says you know the question you have to ask yourself in every moment is is this essential”
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Why Buddhism is True
Discussed“yes uh Robert writes why Buddhism is true in that he talks about um life is suffering said by the Buddha and the word Dua dukha contested by some Scholars as not meaning suffering but unsatisfactoriness life is unsatisfactoriness”
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The Forgotten Highlander
Discussed“uh I sent you or I think I mentioned to you the last time that we spoke about the Forgotten Highlander alist art how did you get on with that uh it was fascinating uh it was fascinating”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“well I was thinking about that actually just recently like all the work that I when I'm working on a book so discipline just came out I'm working on the next one like all the material in those books”
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“and when I signed her copy of disciplines Destiny I wrote this in it because I think about it all the time uh he said do you want to be fast now or do you want to be fast later right”