What I Learned About Life From Buying a Goat on Craigslist

One goat became two, then a whole farm, then a crash course in what really matters

Ryan Holiday
Forge
Published in
5 min readOct 5, 2019

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A goat peers over a patch of grass.
Photo: Hetty Stellingwerf/Unsplash

ItIt started innocuously enough, as many modern tales do, with a Craigslist posting. Boredom and whimsy — that’s how my wife and I ended up driving home from Seguin, Texas, with a tiny Nigerian dwarf goat in the front seat of the…

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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