
64 Ryan Holiday: Using Practical Ancient Philosophy as a Guide to Achieving Mastery
The School of Greatness
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The Difference Between the Right and the Wrong Perspective Is Everything
Lewis: I like one of my examples in the book is Laura Ingalls Wilder who wrote Little House in the Prairie. She sort of lived through all this terrible stuff, right? But she had this weird spirit where she kind of saw it all as an adventure. And so this idea of like a terrible thing being actually fun, and then it becoming fun because she thinks that it is really, is really important. Lewis: We don't remind ourselves how much worse it really could be. Like everyone tells us to be realistic. Don't listen to them. Do what you think you can do.
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