45: Ryan Holiday | Solving for What You Really Want from Life
The Jordan Harbinger Show
Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2018
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday (@ryanholiday) is a media strategist, an entrepreneur, and an author who wrote eight books and ghost wrote another six by the time he was 30. His most recent offering is Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue.
What We Discuss with Ryan Holiday:- How Ryan figured out what he really wanted to do with his life.
- Ryan's two-step process to solve for that.
- Realistic alternatives to college.
- How to make life decisions more strategically than most.
- What goes into writing a Ryan Holiday book from scratch.
- And much more...
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| 1:10.5 | winging it. You know, and the people who are who are pretending that they're not winging it |
| 1:15.5 | or who are presenting it like it's all been part of a brilliant plan are either insane or lucky |
| 1:21.6 | or lying. Welcome to the show. I'm Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with my producer Jason |
| 1:28.1 | DeFilippo. On this episode, we're talking with my good friend Ryan Holiday. He's been on the show |
| 1:32.5 | before. It's a particularly impressive guy who I've known for a long time. And during the time |
| 1:37.3 | that I've known Ryan, he's authored eight books himself, a ghost road, another six. He started |
| 1:42.7 | a family. He worked for some well-known authors and worked directly with the CEO of American |
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