Much of what has been written about success focuses on how to become successful in the first place.

Almost nothing has been written about what to do once you are.

And as it turns out, that may be a nicer problem to have,

but it doesn't make it less of a problem.

We can sometimes find ourselves

stretch too thin, busy but not productive,

where all of the opportunities, the outside noise, is hijacking our day,

it is what I have called the paradox of success.

What got us to be successful is not the same strategy, the same

set of behaviors that will help us to continue to be successful, to break through to a higher point of

contribution and in this conversation with Ryan Holiday a modern student and teacher and best-selling author of the Stoics.

We get to really explore this theme.

It's a great conversation and for anybody who has achieved a certain level of success

but feels sometimes that they're plateauing and their progress or even starting to fail altogether, this conversation is relevant.

Sometimes it's not harder work that's needed, it's not more ambition, it's to bridle that ambition, is to bridle that ambition. It's to bridle that ambition. It's to bridle those passions.

Here's the conversation with Ryan Holiday.

Ryan is an absolute pleasure to have you as part of a conversation today.

Thank you, yeah I appreciate it.

I want to start at the end.

Okay.

But one of my favorite things to do when I'm reading a book is to read any afterward or

acknowledgments first. I'm the exact opposite by the way I hate acknowledgments and I don't like any time the author puts them at the front of the book

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