#171 How To Change Your Mindset and Transform Your Life with Ryan Holiday

Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Dr Rangan Chatterjee

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Alternative Health, Mental Health

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🗓️ 6 April 2021

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Today's conversation takes a deep dive into an ancient philosophy and comes out with some practical strategies that really couldn't be more useful for these uncertain times. My guest is Ryan Holiday, someone who I've been really keen to speak with, ever since a close friend of mine gifted me his incredible book, The Obstacle Is The Way. Ryan is someone who's making timeless ancient wisdom accessible to millions of people all over the world through his books and blogs. And he's making a strong case that stoicism, the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, is a viable life hack for our busy 21st century lives.

Whether you are familiar with stoic philosophy or not, I think you'll get a lot of value from today's conversation. Ryan explains that it's not what happens to us in life that really matters, it's how we react to it. We can all learn from unwelcome challenges and, more often than not, become better as a result of them. He also explains how these ancient ideas can be applied to our busy modern lives and how we can use them to build resilience and humility, and how we can use simple tools such as journaling, to help us find more stillness.

I think you'll find this conversation full of powerful advice and my hope is that you find it engaging, accessible and inspiring.

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0:00.0	Life is very short, and so to spend time kicking and screaming and wishing that things were otherwise than they are
0:08.0	is to reject the gift of the moment that is in front of you right now.
0:13.0	It's not things that upset us, it's our judgment about things.
0:17.0	Bad things happen, but we can wrestle some good from them.
0:23.0	Hi, my name is Rongan Chatterjee. Welcome to Feel Better Live More.
0:34.0	Hello, how are you doing? I hope you are well.
0:38.0	Today's podcast takes a deep dive into an ancient philosophy and comes out with some practical strategies
0:46.0	that really couldn't be more useful for these uncertain times in which we find ourselves living.
0:52.0	My guest is Ryan Holiday, someone who I've been really keen to speak with.
0:57.0	Ever since a close friend of mine gifted me his incredible book, The Obstacle Is The Way.
1:04.0	Now Ryan is someone who's making timeless ancient wisdom accessible to millions of people all over the world through his books and blogs.
1:13.0	And he's making a strong case that stoicism, the ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, is a viable life hack for our busy 21st century lives.
1:24.0	Now at this point, you may be thinking, what's on earth is stoicism?
1:28.0	And if you are, you are not alone. A few years back, that was me.
1:32.0	I've never even heard of stoic philosophy, and the truth is, it's only through devouring many of Ryan's books
1:40.0	that I've become more closely acquainted with its ideas and principles.
1:45.0	Now of course, you may already be familiar with stoicism, but no matter what your starting point is,
1:52.0	I think you're going to get a lot of value from today's conversation.
1:57.0	Ryan explains that it's not what happens to us in life that really matters.
2:02.0	It's how we react to it, that we can all learn from unwelcome challenges,
2:08.0	and more often than not, we can become better as a result of them.
2:13.0	He also explains how these ancient ideas can be applied to our busy modern lives,
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