166: How to reach true success & confidence with bestselling author, Ryan Holiday

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Alternative Health, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 27 December 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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As the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stillness Is The Key, Ryan Holiday seems to know the road to success like the back of his hand. His 10 other bestsellers are beloved by many influential individuals including NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities and political leaders. While the relationship between famous athletes and philosophy might not seem closely tied, he tells mbg Founder and Co-CEO, Jason Wachob, that ancient philosophy has a rightful place in modern society. Tune in to hear what true confidence really means and find out how taking advice from famous philosophers can help you live a happier, more fulfilled, and successful life. To contact the mindbodygreen team with comments, questions, or speaker ideas, please email [email protected]. For all sponsorship inquiries, please email [email protected]. Want to join our podcast email newsletter? Sign up here! Enjoy this episode! And don't forget to subscribe to our podcast on iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher, and sign up for our podcast newsletter! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the My Buddy Green podcast. I'm Jason Walkab, founder and co-ceeo of My Buddy Green, and your host.
0:07.0	Ryan Holiday is one of this generation's foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy in its place in everyday life.
0:17.0	He's a sought after speaker, strategist, and the author of many best-selling books, including The Obst the way ego is the enemy the daily
0:24.6	stoic and his latest must-read number one New York Times bestseller stillness is
0:30.1	the key his books have been translated into over 30 languages and sold over 2 million
0:35.2	copies worldwide. You can follow him at Ryan Holiday or subscribe to his writing at Ryan Holiday
0:41.0	net. Today we're going to cover everything from raising kids, dealing with anxiety, the balance
0:46.3	between pushing hard and letting go, as well as making it as an entrepreneur in today's
0:51.3	world.
0:52.3	Brian, welcome.
0:53.0	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:54.0	So let's start with Stoicism.
0:58.0	Define it.
0:59.0	What is it?
1:00.0	When did you discover it and talk about the transformative effect it had on you?
1:04.3	So I think the big thing to tell people is there's a big difference between lower-case
1:08.7	stoicism and upper-case stoicism.
1:11.5	So and I imagine especially with your audience like lower-case stoicism. So, and I imagine especially with your audience, like lower case
1:14.6	stoicism seems the opposite of what you want to be, right? That's like
1:18.4	repressing your emotions, that's stuffing things down, that's sort of that sort of inability to feel pain,
1:24.6	inability to feel vulnerable.
1:27.2	That's what the word Stoicism means,
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