Arnold Schwarzenegger's Seven Tools for Life
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Arnold Schwarzenegger is an Austrian and American actor, businessman, filmmaker, former politician, and former professional bodybuilder best known for his roles in high-profile action movies. He served as the 38th governor of California from 2003 to 2011 and was among Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2004 and 2007. Ryan speaks with Arnold Schwarzenegger on how to be useful, the mental, physical and psychological benefits to nurturing the mind and body, their shared love for animals, running for governor and more at the 92NY in New York City.
Be Useful: Seven Tools For Life is written with Arnold Schwarzenegger’s uniquely earnest, blunt, powerful voice. It takes readers on an inspirational tour through his toolkit for a meaningful life. Arnold shows us how to put those tools to work, in service of whatever fulfilling future we can dream up for ourselves. He brings his insights to vivid life with compelling personal stories, life-changing successes and life-threatening failures alike—some of them famous, some told here for the first time.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stillett podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient |
| 0:16.4 | Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:24.8 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, |
| 0:30.1 | well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful. |
| 0:33.7 | With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them |
| 0:37.3 | become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:43.1 | Kind of stoic intention for the week, |
| 0:45.3 | something to meditate on, something to think on, |
| 0:48.2 | something to leave you with, to journal about |
| 0:50.6 | whatever it is you happen to be doing. So let's get into it. |
| 0:54.3 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:59.4 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. I told you my story with Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| 1:06.7 | when I did my earlier episode with him. So we've gotten to know each other a little. He told me this super nice thing that he has a leather-bound copy of the Daily Stoic on his counter, which is, you know, just sort of unreal guy who's always been a huge movie star since I was a little kid. was the governor of the state that I grew up in while I was growing up there is reading one of my books it was nuts. |
| 1:28.0 | But what was crazier was that so we did we did the interview at his office in Santa Monica. I thought it went well. |
| 1:33.2 | Bumped into Rich Roll while I was there. I really enjoyed the book. If you haven't read |
| 1:38.2 | to be useful you should carried at the painting porch. But anyways, thought that was the end of it. |
| 1:42.4 | And then I got a note from Arnold's publicist that said, hey, Danny DeVito was supposed to interview Arnold on stage at the 92nd Street why, but he can't because of some |
| 1:56.3 | Broadway commitment, could you do it? |
| 1:59.5 | So I guess that's the first time I've been asked to fill in for Danny DeVito, probably the last, but I was incredibly honored to do it. |
| 2:10.0 | So I flew to New York for the day, had dinner with my sister Amy who lives in New York, and then I got |
| 2:17.3 | on stage with Arnold. |
| 2:18.3 | I'll tell you a little story. |
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