Ryan Stotland

Songwriter and music producer from Montreal who writes about educational topics.

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

@RealCandaceO We’re really grasping at straws here. Why is this significant in any conceivable way?

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

@DanBilzerian You’re 12% Jewish so you must be 12% tired of your own bullshit.

[Skyler Wang @skylrwang]

My super talented friend Ryan Stotland wrote a song about my research and debuted it at an open mic. Citations age, but this doesn’t. Love you buddy. 🤍🎤

[PCHS Home of the Trojans @PCHSgotrojans]

Welcome to songwriter Ryan Stotland and his partner Lucas Choi Zimbel who performed for Mr Mallalieu’s Grade 11 Psych students today! Thank you to our guests for showing us that art and education can work together to make beautiful music 🎶 #pchs #pfdscomm #pcpride #lbpsb

[George Mack @george__mack]

My favorite Charlie Munger story:

In 1953, Munger was 29 years old.

Recently divorced. Lost the house. Huge social stigma of divorce back then.

His 8-year-old son, Teddy, was diagnosed with cancer.

The leukemia was incurable.

No medical insurance - Munger paid for all his medical care.

Charlie would visit Teddy in the hospital every day -- and then walk the streets crying.

Teddy died at the age of 9.

Charlie was broke, divorced and just lost his child.

99.9% of people would've turned to alcohol, drugs, or suicide. (And you'd understand why)

Munger never did.

Fast forward to 52 years old, a failed surgery left him blind in one eye with the potential of going fully blind one day.

Charlie was an obsessive learner who read every book he could get his hands on.

When confronted with the possibility of going blind and no longer being able to read he said:

"It's time for me to learn braille!"

The only thing that might be more impressive than his intellect was his actions.

RIP.

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Munger on Self-Pity:

"Generally speaking, envy, resentment, revenge, and self-pity are disastrous modes of thought.

Self-pity gets pretty close to paranoia…

Every time you find your drifting into self-pity, I don’t care what the cause, your child could be dying from cancer, self-pity is not going to improve the situation. It’s a ridiculous way to behave.

Life will have terrible blows, horrible blows, unfair blows, it doesn’t matter. Some people recover and others don’t.

There I think the attitude of Epictetus is the best. He thought that every mischance in life was an opportunity to behave well. Every mischance in life was an opportunity to learn something and that your duty was not to be immersed in self-pity, but to utilize the terrible blow in a constructive fashion. That is a very good idea."

[Noah Solomon @NoahsolomonOWM]

Thanks to @rstots for stopping by the @OutcomeWM office today to play some of his very fun songs for us. Of course, I had to join in with a bit of playing of my own!

[Dr Anna Singleton She/Her @DrAnnaSingleton]

Sure, you’ve heard about Phineas Gage, but have you heard the song about him?

@rstots brings psychology stories to life in his fun, informative tunes 🎶🎵

Perfect opening to @CAPO_ACOP #CAPO2023

[Dr Anna Singleton She/Her @DrAnnaSingleton]

My first conference singalong! Highly recommend 🎶🎵🎶🎵

@rstots @CAPO_ACOP #CAPO2023

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

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I'm Phineas Gage I got a big hole in the side of my brain!

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

The Habs traded Subban now he’s in Tennessee
Picked up my guitar and slid the capo to C
The city’s corrupt and my signings out of key
Expectations are shattered now there’s nothing to be
My lyrics from from 2018. Happy retirement PK (my favourite hab)!
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[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

Get tickets for my London Ontario show this coming Saturday night here:
https://t.co/tiq7V4BETr

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

The emptiness is endless cold as the clay. You can always come back but you can’t come back all the way. Only one thing I did wrong - stayed in Mississippi a day too long

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

Come get your tickets to my show at the Segal Centre on June 12th! All songs about psychology!
https://t.co/J438ZpqQPB

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

@nntaleb @JustinWolfers Did Fat Tony bet on nickel prices to raise or fall during the war in Ukraine?

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

@mollyfrizzell Good luck!!

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

"Copyright terms have been consistently extended not in the interests of the works’ creators, but for the benefit of corporate behemoths such as the Walt Disney Co"
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[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

@mollyfrizzell I still believe you can get a handle on R

[Ryan Stotland @rstots]

Congrats to Félix and Denis and all of tennis Canada for one of the biggest wins in Canadian tennis history!

[ATPCup @ATPCup]

About last night... 🤩

#ATPCup | #TeamCanada 🇨🇦

[CBC Sports @cbcsports]

OH CANADA! 🇨🇦🎾

Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov help Canada claim their 1st ATP Cup title 🏆

MORE: https://t.co/RbazT3b69g

[John Horgan @Horganism]

It's a little early for Christmas music, but this Freudian X-mas song makes me smile: https://t.co/1BaD7W8iDM