Learn, apply. Learn, apply. Learn, apply. This is the stoic way. With @RyanHolidayOfficial

The quote from that chapter of the book was, learn, apply, learn, apply, learn, apply. This is the Stoic way.

Yeah, I mean, look, that's the whole purpose of reading, right? We're not— Seneca says, you know, philosophy is not a parlor trick. It's a thing to alleviate suffering, to guide behavior, to help you reach your potential. So the purpose of reading has to be a happier life, a wiser life, a more courageous life, you know, a more generous life. So the purpose of the philosophy is you're learning and then you have to be out in the world doing things and then you have to apply what you've read to those things. Like one of the things that I've been very deliberate about in my career— this is before I was a writer and then after— is that I've always been trying to have a couple different irons in the fire, different projects, even if those, you know, sometimes feel a bit onerous or they take a lot of time. Because you don't want to be in a place where all you do is talk about things, right? If you're just a writer, it's very easy to get lost solely in the world of ideas. Even, you know, just having investments