Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger.

As always I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo.

On the Jordan Harbinger show we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's

most brilliant and interesting people, and turn their wisdom into practical advice that

you can use to impact your own life and those around you.

We'll help you see the matrix when it comes to how these amazing people think and behave

because I want you to become a better thinker.

And today, Ryan Holiday.

Menni had been friends for years and if you listen to a lot of different podcasts,

he's certainly made the rounds recently.

I wanted to have a different sort of conversation with him instead of the same stoicism that

everyone else has been drilling into lately.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

I just think there's more room for some other topics here and if you agree then listen

on.

It's just what we did today on the show.

Today, you'll hear us discuss how successful people learn to process feedback, who and

what to listen to in order to improve and move forward.

We'll also uncover why self-awareness is a secret weapon of some of the highest performing

people you'll meet and 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.

Again, this is a much more free form and offbeat conversation with Ryan and I think that's

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