If you wish to improve,” Epictetus once said, “be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters. - Ryan Holiday

One way to remember who you are,” he said, “is to remember who your heroes are.

One of the things that separates us from other people is our ability to be strict and self-disciplined.

Where other people are fine making excuses or taking shortcuts, we are not.

Where other people wing it or do what’s easiest, taking the path of least resistance, we don’t.

We are a product of our teachers and our mentors. There would be no Plato without Socrates. There would be no Aristotle without Plato. There would be no Marcus Aurelius without Rusticus or Epictetus or Antoninus.