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Thursday, November 13, 2025

On Our "Virtual Route 99" This Week: Out & About this Week

 

We present this "Thought Grid" for all to take under advisement as we also report thoughts courtesy the Chronicle of Higher Education, as Cornell agreed to a Trump Administration Proposal to restore funding: 

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The university, which had seen hundreds of millions of dollars frozen, said the deal “will enable us to return to our teaching and research in restored partnership with federal agencies.”


We close out with thoughts courtesy the team at the Daily Stoic:

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In a recent video on the Daily Stoic YouTube channel, Ryan Holiday talks with Tom Allen of “Chad Goes Deep” about what it takes to succeed at something:

“You need a certain amount of shamelessness to get up and do the thing when you’re bad, which you invariably are at the beginning. But you also need the humility and maybe even the self-loathing to think that you’re bad so you do the work to get good.”
Watch the full video here:
The Stoic Art of Self-Control (ft Chad Goes Deep)

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PODCAST TAKEAWAY OF THE WEEK:

In a recent episode of The Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with Jay Heinrichs, bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing and one of the world’s leading experts on rhetoric and persuasion, about why self-persuasion might actually be more powerful than raw willpower.

“It's a matter of persuasion, of reframing, of changing your mood, your attitude toward things, and your willingness to do something or stop doing it.”
Listen to the full episode: Persuasion Expert: “You Can Manipulate Yourself Into Doing Hard Things” | Jay Heinrichs (PT. 1)

 


WHAT RYAN HOLIDAY IS READING:

“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.”

— The Moviegoer by Walker Percy


SOCIAL MEDIA POST OF THE WEEK: