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@RyanHoliday Who did you want to be when you crashed out like a teenage girl over a video? Was that what the Stoics command us? You’re a grifter and a fraud, the very antithesis of what you preach.
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Why do you take a surface level, childish approach to contemporary political and cultural issues and then springboard off this profoundly vacuous attempt to lecture us about morality, as if you have the exclusive answer of what “justice” is? As if anyone disagrees with you—which may as well amount to disagreeing with my 14 year old niece—is inherently and obviously wrong?
What kind of person are you trying to be then? A demagogue who wraps up his vapidity in mythical, romantic stories?
Why is it that you are so sure of your ridiculous, uninformed beliefs, to the point where you think all our problems can be addressed by regurgitating some empty platitude?
You’re not nearly as good a person you think you are. The idea that you think you’re in a position to judge anyone, let alone call people “performative philosophers” is as laughable as your books are shallow.
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@RyanHoliday You’re reconized for being the biggest b*tch on X right now lol
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vittorio@IterIntellectus
> spend 20 years studying a philosophy about not letting your emotions control you > build a career teaching it to other people > get emotional at a 30 second video of the daughter of the guy you don’t like best argument against stoicism is its biggest evangelist
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Ryan - I’ve read many of your books and listened to hours upon hours of your podcast.
I say this with all sincerity: You have become the modern day Dov Charney.
Your intermediate self would be ashamed of the current self, if only you could recognize you’re off path.
It’s the same problem you observed in Dov at American Apparel. But you won’t listen. Just like Dov wouldn’t either.
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@RyanHoliday Jesus Christ tells us to do the work and don’t contemplate recognition at all
That “extra” you are still searching for even though you claim not to be is a lack of spiritual balance
Who is performative now?
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@RyanHoliday 'Stoics command us' means nothing to me. God commands us.
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@RyanHoliday It’s crazy that Ivanka Trump is 1000x a better example of Stoicism than this guy
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@RyanHoliday Unfortunately for you, you will be recognized as a total phony.
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@RyanHoliday Decide what you want to be
""i'm a deeply closeted gay guy"
-norm macdonald"
- Ryan Holiday
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@RyanHoliday I don’t like trump either but what you did yesterday acting like a teenage girl was abhorrent and anti stoic.
- a former fan
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@RyanHoliday “Decide who you want to be, then do the work.”
Classic Stoic move...
Deeper still: even that chosen identity is just another temporary mask on the machinery — the work changes nothing about the fact that none of it ever mattered.
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@RyanHoliday Recognition can come and go, but the identity you practice daily is what shapes the outcome.
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@RyanHoliday if recognition is the goal, you’ll quit before the work pays off.
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@RyanHoliday the work itself is the identity. recognition just means others saw it too
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@RyanHoliday Most people quit when the crowd isn't watching. The real work happens in the dark where there’s no applause to keep you going.
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@RyanHoliday The problem isn't doing the work.
It's doing it while secretly keeping score.
You're not building yourself. You're building evidence.
Do it until you stop looking for the verdict.
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Stoics can say what they want, but it only matters what God commands. Peace doesn’t come from self-definition or some random discipline alone it comes from surrender to Jesus Christ.
‘Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.’ — John 14:27
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@RyanHoliday The work that disappears into your character is the work that mattered most.
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@RyanHoliday Yes, and it appears that the decision was made for you, outside of your will, to be a self righteous fraud with entry level leftist worldviews. Pathetic.
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@RyanHoliday If a person could change their world, and they wanted recognition for their accomplishment, how much did they change their world?
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@RyanHoliday Holiday, thank you for freeing me from your interpretation of Stoicism. I'll take it from here.
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@RyanHoliday Yuh choose yuh path then walk it hard, recognition just bonus pon di journey.
Real ones know di work speak before di world catch up.
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@RyanHoliday recognition is noise
the real test is repetition
who you are
is what you continue to do
when nothing comes back 🔹
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@RyanHoliday Decide who that person will be every day in your journal. Then take what you've learn and go build them.
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@RyanHoliday Jeez you are the one to say shit like this after you literally posted your temper tantrum 🤣🤣🤣 what a stoic drama queen
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@RyanHoliday You literally make anything “stoic” sound like herpes. Contempt towards your weird ass was always there from day 1. That gay ass video you made was like cream cheese frosting. A fucking insufferable bitch
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@RyanHoliday The Stoics didn’t chase applause, they chased arete.
Marcus wrote his meditations for himself in the dead of night while running an empire, Seneca lost everything and kept writing.
Do the work like no one’s watching, because most days no one is.
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@RyanHoliday He's gone full Stephen King....you can see the facial metamorphosis in real time....Gottman would have a field day with the micro-expressions of contempt in the first few seconds. Unhinged/Unwell.
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