271: Ryan Holiday | Stillness Is the Key
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday) is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I'm Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy; Conspiracy, and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. His latest offering is Stillness Is the Key.
What We Discuss with Ryan Holiday:- How successful people learn to process feedback -- and consider its source in order to improve and move forward.
- Why self-awareness is the secret weapon of some of the highest-performing people you'll meet.
- What can keep us striving and moving upward in a world where it's way too easy to compare ourselves to one another and beat ourselves up in the process.
- How Ryan found the purpose and motivation to write eight books and ghost write another six by the time he was 30.
- The eerie, intuitive, borderline magical superpowers of Mr. Rogers, Cesar Millan, and the two daycare miracle workers who can put 15 toddlers down for a nap (including Ryan's son) simultaneously every day.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.6 | As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.2 | On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:12.0 | most brilliant and interesting people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:16.6 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:19.6 | We'll help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave |
| 0:24.0 | because I want you to become a better thinker. |
| 0:25.8 | And today, Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:27.6 | Menni had been friends for years and if you listen to a lot of different podcasts, |
| 0:31.0 | he's certainly made the rounds recently. |
| 0:33.1 | I wanted to have a different sort of conversation with him instead of the same stoicism that |
| 0:36.9 | everyone else has been drilling into lately. |
| 0:38.7 | Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
| 0:40.1 | I just think there's more room for some other topics here and if you agree then listen |
| 0:43.7 | on. |
| 0:44.7 | It's just what we did today on the show. |
| 0:46.2 | Today, you'll hear us discuss how successful people learn to process feedback, who and |
| 0:50.6 | what to listen to in order to improve and move forward. |
| 0:53.9 | We'll also uncover why self-awareness is a secret weapon of some of the highest performing |
| 0:58.8 | people you'll meet and what can keep us striving and moving upward in a world where it's |
| 1:03.6 | way too easy to compare ourselves to one another and beat ourselves up in the process. |
| 1:08.9 | Again, this is a much more free form and offbeat conversation with Ryan and I think that's |
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