Stoicism’s Lessons on Becoming Wise - Ryan Holiday - #1001

How did the live shows go? The last time we were talking, oh, we were discussing upcoming live shows. Yeah, I think it was I was doing two in Australia and you gave me this advice. You were like, well, you you told me that you'd d done it with no notes. And uh usually like when you do talks at events, like they they don't want you to just go up and give a speech.

They want like a presentation. But these were this was different. So yeah, I had to figure out how to do it with no no notes, which was um It was inter like it I it's good to pick arbitrary challenges and take something that you're good at that you've done a lot of times and just figure out a way to do it the hard way. Yeah, what's new?

Yeah. And so I had to sort of reinvent it from scratch. It was challenging, but good. It's actually funny. In Mark Schwiller's meditations, he talks about practicing holding the reins with your non-dominant hand.

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