977: A Leadership Lesson from Eisenhower's Stoic Reversal at D-Day by Ryan Holiday

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🗓️ 14 August 2018

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Ryan Holiday shares the story of Dwight D. Eisenhower's stoic reversal at D-Day and what we can learn from it. Episode 977: A Leadership Lesson from Eisenhower's Stoic Reversal at D-Day by Ryan Holiday (Stoicism & Growth of Stoic Mindset). Ryan Holiday is a writer and media strategist whose creative agency, Brass Check, has advised Google, TASER, and Complex as well as bestselling authors like Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss, and Neil Strauss. He is the author of six books and started his blog around 10 years ago to help his journey in self-education. The original post is located here: https://ryanholiday.net/eisenhower-leadership-lesson-d-day Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Optimal Living Daily, episode 977, a leadership lesson from Eisenhower's Stoic Reversal at D-Day
0:08.2	by Ryan Holiday of RyanHoliday.net and I'm Justin Mollick. This is the podcast where I act as a
0:14.3	personal narrator for you for free, usually from blogs but sometimes from books. Today's author
0:19.7	is Ryan Holiday, an excellent writer. He wrote many popular books. I don't think it's helpful to
0:23.9	name all of them here. Just visit him online at RyanHoliday.net and check those out. You won't be
0:29.5	disappointed. But for now, let's get right to his post as we optimize your life.
0:38.2	A Leadership Lesson from Eisenhower's Stoic Reversal at D-Day by RyanHoliday of RyanHoliday.net
0:46.3	On June 6, 1944, Dwight D Eisenhower pulled off the most stunning and impressive invasion in military
0:52.7	history. A total of 156,000 allied troops invaded the beaches of Normandy and by June 11,
0:59.7	more than 326,000 troops had crossed with over 100,000 tons of military equipment. One of those
1:07.5	men was my grandfather. Eisenhower's critics often harp that he was more of an organizer than a
1:12.8	leader, but it was in the days after D-Day that Eisenhower illustrated one of the most profound and
1:18.0	clear moments of leadership, an example that entrepreneurs can follow. After their hard-won
1:23.4	initial successes, the allied troops became bogged down in the head troves of France. These obstacles,
1:29.0	half earth, half hedge, sometimes 15 feet tall, plus the reality of coordinating that many men
1:34.6	in so much material, created a temporary stall, allowing the Germans to wage a series of counter
1:39.7	offensives, a final blitzkrieg of some 200,000 men. The German blitzkrieg was one of the most
1:45.8	intimidating and shocking developments in modern warfare. At the beginning of World War II,
1:50.9	columns of panzer tanks rushed into Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium and France with devastating
1:56.5	results and little opposition. In most cases, the commanders confronted by the Germans,
2:02.2	simply surrendered rather than face what felt to them like an invincible,
2:06.4	indefatigable monster bearing down. The blitzkrieg strategy was designed to exploit the flinch.
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