Hello everybody, welcome back to the show. My guest today is Ryan Holiday, he's a

podcaster, marketer and an author. Discipline is one of the world's hot topics because

it's become apparent that in order to achieve anything, you must be able to temper your desires

and direct your efforts. The Stoics believed this 2,000 years ago, and between then and

now there's been a plethora of historical examples which can teach us how to build and

sustain discipline. Expect to learn why sanity is your most precious resource, why discipline

without an end goal is pointless, how to stay disciplined when success arrives, why

Martin Luther King let a Nazi punch him in the face, how to enforce discipline without

lambasting yourself for falling short, what Eisenhower's smoking habit can teach us about

self-control, why 75 hard might not build discipline long term, and much more.

I actually got to do this in person with Ryan, which was nice because I've lived in

Austin for seven months and still we haven't found time to see each other yet even though

we've been in touch for many years. He's great, I really, really appreciate Ryan's historical

view, the number of examples he's got from the last few centuries and the millennia of

people fighting with discipline. He's great, you're really going to enjoy this one.

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