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Ask Daily Stoic: How Do I Deal With Imposter Syndrome?

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Ryan talks about the new box set (https://geni.us/A6gX) of his first three books on Stoicism. He reads from Seneca’s Letters from a Stoic (https://geni.us/GMzk) and tackles your questions, too.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.

0:11.7

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

0:22.0

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

0:51.0

We have the time to sing, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

1:22.0

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he would expect them to. But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

1:35.0

And what will be left of Twitter by the time he's done?

1:39.0

Basically my entire team was gone by the end of it. Infrastructure was just completely gutted. He'll like tweet a thing and then everyone's like, we got a word on that now because he tweeted it.

1:47.0

I'm supposed to believe this man is a genius.

1:50.0

It just felt like everything was kind of descending into chaos.

1:53.0

While I'm flipping the bird, wherever you get your podcasts,

1:56.0

Hey, prime members, you can listen episodes at free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today.

2:01.0

Hey, it's Guy Ross here and on my podcast, how I built this, I talked to the founders behind some of the world's biggest and most innovative companies like Starbucks, Google, and Patagonia.

2:12.0

And together, we discuss all of the skills these leaders have learned along the way, like how to solve complex problems and how to lead through uncertainty.

2:20.0

But how I built this isn't your average business podcast.

2:23.0

By tapping into the hearts and minds of entrepreneurs, we better understand how they use adversity as fuel to help them persevere through challenges or overcome setbacks and achieve their goals.

2:37.0

And these aren't just conversations about the past.

2:39.0

My guests and I also explore the novel and world-changing ideas they're pursuing right now.

2:44.0

The goal of our podcast is to inspire you to approach challenges like their opportunities, just like an entrepreneur.

2:52.0

So check out how I built this on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

2:58.0

I'm holding in my hands something I've sort of had this dream would one day exist, but honestly had no idea it ever could or ever would.

3:08.0

I'm holding the box set of the obstacles the way ego is the enemy stillness is the key.

3:16.0

It's crazy to me to think this is basically six years in the making maybe more.

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