#348: Stillness is the Key with Ryan Holiday

The EntreLeadership Podcast

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

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🗓️ 11 November 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In a world that seems to be moving faster than ever, bestselling author Ryan Holiday favors a steadier, more measured approach to things. Rather than being fueled by emotion and rushing into big decisions, he insists that there is real insight to be gained in what he calls stillness, a strategic pause to stop and evaluate every option. Tune in to hear Ryan explain why stillness is the ultimate expression of strength and how this powerful mindset can bring clarity to even the most high-stakes situation. entreleadership.com/podcast Stillness Is the Key by Ryan Holiday Ryan Holiday's website The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday Ego Is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Painting As a Pastime by Winston Churchill Free tool from EntreLeadership: Decision Making Checklist Review this episode for a chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card Want expert help with your business question? Call 844-944-1070 and leave a message or send an email to [email protected]. You could be featured on a future podcast episode!

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0:00.0	Have you ever been in this position where you start to really dive into the work that
0:08.2	you're supposed to be doing and then you get distracted?
0:12.7	Distracted by a ping, distracted by an alert, distracted by a notification?
0:16.7	Well, that's why they call it the age of distraction.
0:20.6	And that kind of presents a problem for you and I.
0:24.6	Because our accessibility has dramatically increased, but our attention span is taken
0:30.0	a free fall.
0:31.3	And we find ourselves with this problem, this predicament where the one thing that you
0:35.8	and I both need, focus is the one thing that we just can't seem to find.
0:44.0	From the Ramsey Network, this is the Entrez Leadership Podcast where we help business leaders
0:47.4	grow themselves, their teams, and their profits.
0:50.2	I'm your host Alex Judd and today's guest, Ryan Holiday, is one of the great thinkers
0:54.6	writers, storytellers of our time.
0:57.8	In this conversation, he's going to draw from ancient history, athletics, pop culture,
1:01.7	and even the ancient art of stoicism to make a compelling case that the key to focused
1:07.4	leadership is stillness.
1:10.5	That's right, Ryan says that stillness is the key, it's the title of his new book, and
1:14.9	the moment that typifies this principle is two weeks in 1962, in which one man's intentional
1:22.3	stillness changed the course of human history.
1:27.5	As I was sort of looking through history and trying to find an example that I felt like
1:31.9	exemplified the very high stakes that stillness matters on.
1:37.2	I mean, obviously one impulse is sports, you could look at some team with a Super Bowl
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