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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

1155: Ryan Holiday

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode, Sal, Adam and Justin speak with best selling author, Ryan Holiday.

  • How Ryan was talking about ‘fake news’ before it was cool. (2:30)
  • The concept of ‘yellow journalism’. (7:45)
  • Why the more polarizing information we get, the more likely we are to react to it. (9:28)
  • How you get what you pay for and the importance of long-form conversations. (12:15)
  • What is the most alarming trend he sees? (15:42)
  • The significance of digital wellness: How to use technology and NOT be controlled by it. (18:55)
  • Is stoicism having a comeback? (21:45)
  • How does he define stoicism? (25:42)
  • Why sometimes the best thing you can do is go back into the work. (26:37)
  • Can these teachings be just as effective if you don’t believe in the metaphysical? (31:35)
  • Does he have a code he lives by? (34:05)
  • Why certain things matter more TODAY than ever. (36:06)
  • The historical stories no one knows about. (42:15)
  • How was he introduced to stoicism and did it contribute to dropping out of college? (45:33)
  • How no man steps in the same river twice. (49:35)
  • What have his children taught him? (51:49)
  • If you don’t have any critics you aren’t doing anything interesting. (59:13)
  • What books have been impactful on his life? (1:02:45)
  • Is he motivated by money? (1:04:12)
  • The formula for his writing process. (1:06:23)
  • Does he know when he has a hit on his hands? (1:11:00)
  • Why he thinks in the long term and doesn’t play the comparison game. (1:12:15)
  • The value of autonomy and being in control of your own destiny. (1:15:48)
  • Why he lives his life NOT out of a place of want. (1:17:50)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go.

0:06.0

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

So in this episode of Mind Pump, we got to interview one of the best-selling authors that we've ever met.

0:20.0

Ryan Holiday, he's the best-selling author of Trust Me I'm Lying.

0:24.0

The obstacle is the way, ego is the enemy, conspiracy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition.

0:33.0

His work has been translated into over 30 languages, and he's appeared everywhere from the New York Times to fast-competing.

0:40.0

His current company, Brass Check, has advised companies such as Google, Taser, and Complex,

0:45.0

as well as multi-platinum musicians and some of the biggest authors in the world.

0:50.0

His current book for sale is Stillness Is the Key.

0:54.0

Now this is an author that Adam has been talking about for a very, very long time.

0:58.0

This was a great interview, we had a lot of fun talking this guy, and his stoic principles and philosophies.

1:04.0

Now you can find Ryan Holiday on Instagram, if you want to check him out, at Ryan Holiday, spell just like it sounds, and his website is RyanHoliday.net.

1:16.0

Now before that episode begins, I want to let everybody know that you're entering into the final hours of our Maps Power Lift.

1:22.0

This is a Powerlifting Workout program launch.

1:25.0

So anytime we launch a new program, there's a discount code for a sale on it.

1:30.0

So right now Maps Power Lift is $40 off with the code Power40, P-O-W-E-R, 4-0, no space.

1:40.0

Just go to the site mapspowerlift.com.

1:43.0

You'll also get a free Maps Power Lift t-shirt if you enroll during the launch period.

1:50.0

So without any further ado, here we are interviewing Ryan Holiday.

1:55.0

All right, on, dude, excited to have you on here.

1:58.0

I've read, let's see here, obstacles the way, egos the enemy, I'm halfway through Stillness.

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