BONUS | 5 Rapid-Fire Stoic Rules for Thinking More Clearly

0:00Ryan Holiday: We just got back from an amazing vacation in Italy. I'll bring you some clips from it over the next couple weeks. I recorded a bunch of stuff while we were there. Although it was as hot as it has literally ever been. It's one of the best family trips we've ever had. And we stayed in this amazing palazzo that we booked on Airbnb. It was like 500 years old. It had all these Roman funerary headstones in it, which is this crazy memento mori thing. It was like staying in a museum. The hosts were incredible. They lovingly restored this place. They took amazing care of it. And by listing their place on Airbnb, they get to share this amazing experience with people from all over the world and get funds to put towards upkeeping and restoring their place.

0:43Ryan Holiday: If you're planning a trip this summer, it's worth considering listing your place on Airbnb. It can be a great way to help offset the cost of your vacation and earn a little extra money to put towards your next adventure. Your place might be worth more than you think. And all you got to do is go to airbnb.com slash host to find out more. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

1:14Ryan Holiday: Five rules that will make you a better thinker. Number one, watch your information diet. As they say, garbage in, garbage out. You're spending too much time on social media. If you are spending too much time reading the latest and the trendiest stuff, what you're missing is the ancient stuff, right? Mark Surrealis' Meditations is 2 ,000 years old. Go way back in time. Read old books to have new ideas. Number two, ego is the enemy. As Epictetus reminds us, you cannot learn that which you think you already know. It's through humility. It's through openness. It's through the willingness to admit error that we learn and grow and change.

1:54Ryan Holiday: Which leads us to the third one. We have to be good at asking questions. Mark Sreelus praises Antoninus, his predecessor, for his ability to ask searching questions at meetings. This is a skill. If you ask a good question, as they say, you are on your way to a good answer. Be willing to ask questions. Be willing to question everything, including yourself. To go back to information diet, it's not just reading. It's the re-reading that counts. right the ancients talked about how we never step in the same river twice right every time we go back to a thinker every time we go back to a book every time we go back to a genre we are different and so we take different things out of it and then the final and fifth one is pretty basic take more walks Nietzsche said that it was only ideas had while walking that have any worth and he's absolutely right we are meant to think and contemplate on the move we are not supposed to be sedentary we are We're not supposed to be stuck in an office.

2:52Ryan Holiday: We are meant to be outdoors. We are meant to be in motion. I'm not saying that walks are going to solve all your problems, are going to make everything clear. I'm just saying very little is less clear when you return from a walk. Very few problems are made worse by taking a walk. Walking and thinking go hand in hand.

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