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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan Holiday & Tim Ferriss Discuss "Alive Time vs Dead Time"

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ryan speaks with Tim Ferriss, the author, podcaster, and investor. Tim has written five New York Times best selling books, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, has over 400 million downloads on iTunes. He has been an early investor in over 50 companies, including Uber, Facebook, Shopify, and Alibaba. Tim writes a hugely popular blog and has spoken in front of millions of people, whether on TV or to organizations like Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Palantir.(4:57) - How Stoicism has helped them deal with COVID-19(21:30) - How do you process anger about the response?(32:08) - Fear - how do you defend against it? what do you tell someone who is overwhelmed by it?(41:23) - “Turning alive time into dead time”(51:16) - What can people do to help?This episode is brought to you by Athletic Greens. Athletic Greens is a custom formulation of 75 vitamins, minerals, and other whole-food sourced ingredients that make it easier for you to maintain nutrition in just a single scoop. It tastes great and gets you the nutrients you need, whether you're working on the go, fueling an active lifestyle, or just maintaining your good health. Visit athleticgreens.com/stoic and receive 20 free travel packs with your first purchase.This episode is also brought to you by Leesa, the online mattress company. Each of their mattresses is made to order and shipped for free right to your door. All mattresses come with a 100-night trial and a 10-year warranty, so you can feel confident in your investment in a good night’s sleep. And Leesa's hybrid mattress has been rated the best overall mattress by sites like Business Insider, Wirecutter, and Mattress Advisor.Daily Stoic listeners get 15% off their entire order with the code STOIC. Just visit Leesa.com and get your mattress today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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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.

0:50.5

And 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.

1:00.5

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1:09.5

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1:33.5

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

1:38.5

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2:10.5

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2:15.5

Hey, this is Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

2:22.5

So Tim Ferris is someone I've known now for going on 13 years. I actually met him here in Austin before the four hour work week came out.

2:30.5

I was just a kid basically. I hadn't done anything and he was nice enough to sort of connect with me and talk to me.

2:36.5

And one of the things we shared, one of the things we sort of connected over was was Seneca and Stoic philosophy.

2:42.5

And we've become friends since he's actually published the audiobook of the obstacles away and he goes the enemy. And one of the things that I've always respected about Tim is that Tim is a doer, right? Tim makes things in the real world.

2:57.5

So yes, he's into philosophy. Yes, he thinks about these things about about Stoic philosophy, but what he really does is apply the philosophy in the things that he does.

3:10.5

And I think his response to COVID-19 has been a great example of that. That's why we're going to have him on the show today. Why had a bunch of questions about applying stochism to these uncertain times.

3:22.5

But we've talked recently about like look, we're living through history, but this is a time to embody philosophies, a time to be heroic.

3:31.5

Tim was one and we talked about this in our interview. Tim was one of the first people to push for South by Southwest to close to not happen in Austin in March of 2020.

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