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So Much Has Changed. So Little Has Changed.

The Daily Stoic | Wondery+

Hosted by Ryan Holiday

4m
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This episode marks the ten-year anniversary of the publication of The Daily Stoic by reflecting on how much the world and individual lives have changed, while the fundamental human struggles remain remarkably constant. The host shares personal reflections on writing the original book in his early twenties as a newly married man expecting his first child, and how subsequent years of raising children, opening a bookstore, and writing numerous other books reshaped his understanding of the Stoic texts. Rather than simply adding a new foreword, the host and his co-writer Steve Hanselman revised the work page by page for a new 10-year anniversary edition that features sixty new translations, improved stories, new illustrations, and bonus chapters. The episode offers listeners a look at how long-term consistency in returning to core philosophical principles intersects with personal growth and perspective over time.

  • Time brings new perspective to old lessons, making passages read years ago suddenly make sense. 3:16
  • Fundamental human worries remain constant even as decades pass and external circumstances change. 3:01
  • The 10-year anniversary edition of The Daily Stoic includes sixty new translations and bonus chapters. 5:10

Highlights

  • 1:46

    Constant Human Strugglesinsight

    The host reflects that despite global and personal changes, humans still struggle with tempers, worry about the future, and try to understand what is within their control.

  • 1:51

    Ten Years of The Daily Stoicdata

    The episode opens by noting that 522 weeks, or 3,652 days, have passed since the publication of The Daily Stoic.

  • 3:16

    The Evolving Readerinsight

    Readers return to the same words over the years, but the reader is never the same person, causing previously unnoticeable passages to become deeply relevant.

  • 3:57

    Writing in the Twentiesstory

    The host reveals he was in his early twenties, newly married, and soon to become a father when he originally wrote The Daily Stoic.

  • 4:53

    Revising Page by Pagestrategy

    Instead of just adding a new foreword, the co-authors went through the book page by page to improve it with the knowledge they gained over a decade.

Quotes

  • “So much has changed, so little has changed.”
    Ryan Holiday · 1:46
  • “It's been 522 weeks, some 3,652 days, over 87,000 hours, more than 5,241,600 minutes.”
    Ryan Holiday · 1:51
  • “We want to improve our workflow so we can be more human, more connected, better at what we do.”
    Ryan Holiday · 0:18
  • “You always return to the same words, but you are never the same person.”
    Ryan Holiday · 3:29
  • NetSuite 0:28–1:31

About this episode

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Transcript

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Topics

  • The Daily Stoic

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