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The Daily Stoic

5 Ways That Ego Holds Us Back And Unlocking Human Potential

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Business, 694393, Society & Culture, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Education, Ryan Holiday, Philosophy, Stoic Philosophy, Stoicism, Self-improvement

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

In today's weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks Unlocking Human Potential, and Conquering your ego with YPO West Michigan and YPO Gold Chapter in West Michigan. YPO is the global leadership community of extraordinary chief executives.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic.

0:10.0

Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics,

0:14.8

something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice,

0:20.0

temperance, and wisdom.

0:21.6

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

0:26.4

We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the

0:36.8

challenging issues of our time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more

0:41.5

space when things have slowed down,

0:44.4

be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk,

0:48.5

to sit with your journal,

0:50.0

and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

0:56.6

We would like to welcome the Grand Rapids Economic Club.

0:59.8

They have a number of members joining us today.

1:02.3

We'd like to thank you for our continuing partnership. Today we are bringing you Ryan holiday. If you are not familiar with his work, it certainly prepares you for all times, but certainly times like these.

1:15.0

From his work, The Daily Stoic,

1:17.6

to what he's going to talk about today,

1:19.5

ego is the enemy.

1:20.9

My personal favorite is stillness is the key. I think it is the guide to life.

1:25.0

I've given it to all of my kids and it, he teaches us how to settle our minds and that is so so

1:32.0

important. With that I give you Ryan Holiday. We're all driven by the search for better, but when it comes to hiring the best way to search for a candidate isn't to search at all.

1:50.5

Don't search, match with indeed. If you need to hire, you need Indeed. Indeed is your

1:55.7

matching and hiring platform with over 350 million global monthly visitors, according to

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