435: The power of morning routines & self-discipline | NYT bestselling author Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ryan Holiday: “Discipline makes whatever you do great.” Ryan, a No. 1 New York Times bestselling author, joins mbg co-CEO, Jason Wachob, to discuss how to practice self-discipline for long-term success, plus: - How abundance can make you unhappy (~00:35) - How to become good at self-discipline (~04:28) - Why you shouldn’t have iMessage on your computer (~08:39) - How routines help you succeed (~11:09) - Why you shouldn’t check your phone first thing in the morning (~15:48) - The mental benefits of a clean workspace (~18:14) - How to get over a creative slump (~30:34) - The importance of small wins & taking one step at a time (~32:50) - How to maintain long-term happiness & success (~42:48) - How self-discipline can make you successful (~46:59) Referenced in the episode: - Ryan's newest book, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control. - Check out all of Ryan's bestselling books. - mbg Podcast episode #213 and #166, with Ryan. - The Power Broker, by Robert A. Caro. - mbg Podcast episode #350, with Gretchen Rubin. - Listen to Mark Zuckerberg on The Joe Rogan Experience. - Endurance, by Alfred Lansing. - mbg Podcast episode #408, with Troy Aikman Take 25% off probiotic+ with code PROBIOTICPOD. Cannot combine with gift cards or other discount codes. Apply code at checkout. We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on Youtube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. 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 Wackeb, founder and co-CEO of My Buddy Green,
0:05.4	and your host. Riot Holiday is a prolific bestselling author of numerous books,
0:11.7	including the obstacles the way, ego is the enemy, the daily stoic, and the number one
0:16.6	New York Times bestseller stillness is the key. And he's back on the show today to discuss his
0:23.5	latest must-read, which will surely also be another bestseller. Discipline is destiny,
0:29.9	the power of self-control. Riot, welcome back. Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:35.2	Always love your books, always great to have you on the show. I love how you set the stage for
0:40.7	this book. You start off by writing, we have so much freedom. When you're, if you're bored,
0:47.2	you can travel. If you hate your job, you can change it. If you crack, if crave it, you can have
0:51.5	it. If you think it, you can say it. If you want it, you can buy it. If you dream it, you can
0:54.9	chase it. And I'm not in my head. Yes, yes, yes. And then you go on to say, yet we're so darn
1:01.3	unhappy. So let's go there. Why are we so darn unhappy? Well, I think abundance is obviously
1:08.2	wonderful. It's better than the alternative, right? Like it's wonderful to live in the future that
1:13.3	we live where you can, where you have things that, you know, a French king 400 years ago would have
1:20.7	found unfathomable and even out of their reach. So it's wonderful that we have all these things.
1:28.2	And in fact, even the American system, right? The American system was designed to basically say,
1:33.5	people should be able to largely do whatever they want. But when the founders come up with this idea,
1:41.4	there was no part of them that thought that people should do whatever they want whenever they want,
1:46.4	whenever they want it. The purpose of freedom and success and abundance is to empower you the
1:54.0	individual to take control of your own life and to set reasonable limits on what you do and don't
2:01.5	do. We get this profoundly wrong. I tend to write about the Stoics, but as far as the epicureans
2:09.5	are concerned, you know, they're seen as these sort of lovers of pleasure. But what I love, the
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