It’s easy to be comfortable where you are. It might even be easy to use some of the Stoic teachings to tell yourself that travel is exotic, or even frivolous. But it isn’t. It’s essential.
This week on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday runs a 50K through Rome and some of the most important Stoic sites in history.
When we do hard things, when we train, when we push ourselves physically … we are building that inner citadel, that inner reservoir of strength. That’s what protects us from the things that are happening outside. That’s what we draw on when things are really hard.
Behind Jet Li’s martial arts mastery and international fame is a deeply personal journey to understand purpose, ego, and freedom. In today’s episode, he sits down with Ryan to discuss the three levels of martial arts, how surviving the 2004 tsunami changed his life, and what he believes is the highest form of strength.