What podcasts say about Ryan Clark Holiday
Every statement, with the speaker, the exact quote and the moment it was said.
What Ryan Clark Holiday has said on podcasts
19 statements · 13 positive · 6 negative
Reading can let people experience multiple lives through others’ experiences.
“Reading is, is maybe the only way that you can live multiple lives.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 0:14
Focusing energy on uncontrollable matters reduces energy available for controllable actions.
“if you are focusing your energy, even half of it, on stuff that's not up to you, that's half your energy, that's not being focused on the stuff you can make a difference on.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 1:36
Walking rarely makes existing problems worse.
“there's very few problems that are made worse by taking a walk.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 2:29
Walking’s rhythm slows people down, promotes thinking, and increases present-moment awareness.
“the rhythm of it, the movement of it that slows us down, forces us to think, makes us very present.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 3:07
Taking breaks for walking, exercise, or water activities can unlock ideas or solutions.
“Taking a break from what you're doing to go do one of those things often unlocks a lot of stuff.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 3:45
Daily physical difficulty builds a practice that helps people handle future challenges.
“do something physically difficult every day. The art of challenging oneself and pushing those limits and boundaries, that is a essential practice and skill that will help you whatever life has in store for you.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 4:08
Walking benefits mental health, while additional exercise benefits physical health.
“The walk is for the mental health. Then you gotta do something for the physical health.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 5:04
Meaning comes from serving or contributing to the common good.
“The idea of meaning comes from servicing or contributing to the common good.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 5:16
People should help others and leave the world better than they found it.
“our job is to help others, to, you know, leave this place better than you've.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 5:35
Combat sports may provide beneficial physical and psychological challenge.
“there's something about combat sports, you know, that I think is very primal and probably good for you.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 6:46
Accepting mortality provides urgency and perspective.
“the acceptance and the submission to that fact, the awareness, the urgency, the perspective that that gives you is one of the most essential philosophical practices there is.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 8:49
Every person born will eventually die.
“the second you were born, that doctor knew with 100% certainty that you would die.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 10:47
Ignoring mortality makes people more likely to waste their lives.
“to live in ignorance or in rejection of that fact is to set yourself up, I think more often than not to waste your life.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 11:00
Suppressing emotions does not eliminate them; they eventually re-emerge.
“If you're stuffing the emotions down, if you're pretending they don't exist, they do exist, and they will eventually reveal themselves.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 12:05
Stoicism involves understanding and processing emotions without being controlled by them.
“seeing stoicism as the practice of understanding the emotion, processing the emotion, and then not being a slave to that emotion is the practice of stoicism”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 13:26
- on Attachment to preferred circumstancesNegativeJan 2, 2026· The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Insisting that circumstances conform to preferences causes substantial tension and problems.
“Wanting things to be a certain way, needing them to be a certain way, that's like the root of so much of the tension and problems that we have.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 14:22
Rigid routines can become a source of psychological fragility.
“what if that routine becomes almost a religion, which becomes almost a kind of fragility”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 16:13
A person can thrive regardless of external circumstances.
“I can thrive in any and all situations.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 17:23
A deceased person’s absence can help others improve and continue their legacy.
“the one benefit of people dying is the one way that they can go on living after they die.”
Open the episode · Most Replayed Moment: Make 2026 Your Best Year Yet! 5 Daily Practices For Health And HappinessListen at 19:33
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