Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and Robert Greene Discuss the Laws of Human Nature
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🗓️ 22 August 2020
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode features a 2018 interview in which Ryan talks with author and strategist Robert Greene. They discuss the core message of Robert’s latest book (The Laws of Human Nature), the research process that he uses to put together his books, and more.
Robert Greene is a bestselling author and strategist. Across his six books he has combined intense research with powerful stories from history and myth to uncover the key motivations behind human behavior and strategy.
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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 sing, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring. |
| 1:01.0 | Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seru tea and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. Every week on Redhanded we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 1:10.0 | 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, 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. |
| 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 behaviour. |
| 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 Redhanded wherever you get your podcast. So, and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app. |
| 2:15.0 | I'm just getting started and there's so much I still want to do. So, I decided I want to be a podcast host. I'm proud to introduce you to the Baby Mrs. Kiki Palmer podcast. |
| 2:23.0 | I'm putting my friends, family, and some of the dopest experts in the hot seat to ask them the questions that have been burning in my mind. |
| 2:29.0 | What will former child stars be if they weren't actors? What happened to sitcoms? It's only fans, only bad. I want to know. So, I asked my mom about it. |
| 2:37.0 | These are the questions that keep me up at night, but I'm taking these questions out of my head and I'm bringing them to you. |
| 2:41.0 | Because on Baby Mrs. Kiki Palmer, no topic is off limits. |
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| 2:55.0 | Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of The Daily Stoke Podcast. As you know, I recently had one of my heroes Robert Green on the show. |
| 3:06.0 | We talked about the pandemic quarantine. We talked about a lifetime dead time. You know, we talked about political sensitivities, how one learns to tamp down their triggers the things that they disagree with the things that make them angry. |
| 3:22.0 | As Robert talks about in his book, The Laws of Human Nature. And we also talked about sort of what great leadership in times of crisis looks like. |
| 3:29.0 | Well, I wanted to also share another interview that I did with Robert this one in the fall of 2018. |
| 3:38.0 | Robert Green was putting out the laws of human nature and suddenly, as I've talked about on this podcast before, suddenly had a stroke and it looked like the whole launch was thrown into doubt. |
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