Happy Fourth of July! While you are grilling and relaxing with friends, remember that the comfort you enjoy now grew out of a philosophy that was made to embrace discomfort and to do the right thing, whatever the costs. 

Today’s Ask DS features questions asked from the audience at Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday’s live talk in Los Angeles: 

What does Robert Greene think the future holds with AI and other technology?

What set Ryan Holiday apart from Robert Greene’s other research assistants?

How do Robert Greene and Ryan Holiday know if they have written too much, too little, and decide what needs to be taken out?

Learn more about how the Founders of the United States of America turned to Stoicism:

🎙️ Historian Thomas Ricks on Stoicism and the Founders 

🎙️ How The Greats Pursue Happiness | Jeffrey Rosen

📚 First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas Ricks 

📕 Right Thing, Right Now by Ryan Holiday

📚 The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America by Jeffrey Rosen

🎟 Order tickets to Ryan's tour dates at ryanholiday.net/tour

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