Ryan Holiday: Why I'm Embracing Death in 2025 (E316)

Before we get started, let me tell you, you can now listen to high performance ad free. Start your free trial now on Apple, Spotify, or head to our website so you can listen to our episodes uninterrupted. Every single one of us at birth was given a terminal diagnosis. It is the one prophecy that never fails. We don't really know what we want, so we want what other people want.

To be like everyone else because it's safer, it's a betrayal of an incredible gift. Life is full of hard things. We practice doing hard things, so when hard things happen, we have experience in dealing with hard things. We have muscles that allow us to handle that. That is the voice of best-selling author Ryan Holiday who joins us on today's episode of High Performance.

I'm Jake Humphrey, and in today's conversation, we explore the mind of one of the leading experts of Stoic thinking. And as you probably know by now, I'm a huge fan of the Stoics, the way they thought, the things they wrote about, the behaviors they lived by. In fact, I have the words memento mori tattooed on my left wrist, which reminds me about the practice of being aware of my mortality, developing an intimacy with my mortality and the power that should have on my everyday thinking to give me some urgency, but also some perspective. And in this brilliant chat with Ryan, we're going to explore how he balances creativity with discipline.

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