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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Lacrosse Legend Paul Rabil On What It Takes to Become the Best

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2020

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with lacrosse star Paul Rabil about the mental obstacles that come with being a pro athlete, the experience of starting a professional sports league, and more. 

Paul Rabil is one of the best lacrosse players in history and the best in the world at the sport right now—some have called him the LeBron James of lacrosse. He has played for championship lacrosse teams from his time at college to the professional leagues. Rabil is one of the co-founders of of the Premier Lacrosse League, an American professional lacrosse league whose second season ended this past August.


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0:00.0

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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 think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

1:00.0

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm SeruT. And we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly true crime podcast. Every week on Red Handed we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

1:09.0

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

1:15.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, 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.

1:23.0

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.

1:33.0

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

1:38.0

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

1:44.0

Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcast. So, and access our bonus Short Hand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

1:56.0

Hello, it is Matt and Alice from British scandal here and we wanted to let you know that this season we are very excited to be covering the Cambridge Spies.

2:06.0

It's got everything you could possibly want from a series of British scandal, treachery in the establishment, overconfident public schoolboys and strange meetings on park benches.

2:15.0

Check, check, and double check. You can search and follow British scandal wherever you listen to podcasts or listen early and add free via the Wondry Plus subscription in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

2:28.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Hope everyone is doing great.

2:38.0

I am starting to feel it. The day is approaching as I've talked about over the last year and a half now.

2:48.0

Lives of the Stoics is written, done, it's edited, it's at the printers, the audio book is done, and we are steadily marching to the release date.

3:00.0

And I'm putting the finishing touches on the marketing stuff. So I'm starting to get excited, although as I talk about in the interview, this is also sort of a part of the process I dread.

3:11.0

Not because I don't think the book is going to do well. I think it's one of the best things I've written. I think you guys are really going to like it. I think it adds a whole new element to Stoicism, a whole new sort of perspective.

3:23.0

We're looking at it. It's books called Lives of the Stoics, the art of living from Xenota, Marx, really. It's it's it's who were the stoics. What did they do? How did they live? And what can we learn from their lives? Not just their words.

3:38.0

It's just the first of this is the first book I've ever put out in a pandemic. So that's a bit strange, but it's also the first book in all of them that I don't feel the same excitement about all the marketing stuff because gotten into such a rhythm, writing, I've been so much more inwardly focused than than I have been in a long time because the pandemic I'm not traveling, I'm not having meetings, I'm not going out.

4:04.0

I'm just heads down working. And so this is going to be weird because it is going to interrupt my routine a lot of that. Some live events, I'll remote and then I've got some talks and I've got a bunch of interviews coming and also we've got a bunch of pre-order bonuses.

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