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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Ben Hardy Talk Family, Self-Improvement, and How to Take On a Challenge

The Daily Stoic

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Ryan and Ben Hardy, the author and organizational psychologist, talk about the path of self-improvement, being a parent to foster children, and how to make permanent positive change.

Ben Hardy is an organizational psychologist who has written multiple books and articles on the power of changing your personality to achieve success. From 2015 to 2018, he was the most popular author on Medium with over a million people reading each one of his posts. Ben also speaks at multiple leadership and entrepreneurial events each year. Ben and his wife have fostered three children; together with their new twins, they live in Orlando, FL.

Get Ben’s latest book, Personality Isn’t Permanent: https://geni.us/AjG8

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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

0:12.4

Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life.

0:22.2

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

0:34.2

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seruti and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly True Crime Podcast.

0:40.2

Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

0:43.2

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

0:49.2

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

0:57.2

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

1:07.2

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour.

1:12.2

Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist?

1:18.2

Listen to Redhanded wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

1:29.2

From Wondry comes a new series, Flipping the Bird, Elon vs Twitter, a story about what happens when the richest man on the planet decides to acquire a powerful social media company in the name of free speech.

1:42.2

But does he have what it takes?

1:45.2

It started off promising.

1:48.2

Or is this all just about Elon?

1:51.2

He's essentially mad that his tweets aren't performing as well as he wouldn't expect them to.

1:58.2

But really just felt like, okay, this really is just a platform being ruled by a dictator who does things on his own limbs.

2:04.2

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

2:08.2

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.

2:16.2

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

2:19.2

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

2:22.2

While Flipping the Bird, wherever you get your podcasts, hey, Prime members, you can listen to episodes at free on Amazon Music, download the Amazon Music app today.

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