Cal Newport, Jocko Willink, Tim Ferriss, and Robert Greene on Life During a Pandemic
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🗓️ 23 December 2020
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Today’s episode features clips from some of the best interviews in 2020. Ryan talks to Cal Newport, Jocko Willink, Tim Ferriss, and Robert Greene about time management, daily routines, how to deal with fear, and facing the truth.
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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. |
| 0:12.8 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, |
| 0:19.3 | insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the |
| 0:25.2 | 2000 journal philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. |
| 0:35.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke. Here we are at the end of |
| 0:43.5 | 2020. What a year, man. |
| 0:46.9 | Feels like what's the joke? 2020 has been the longest decade of my life. I saw another meme this morning that was like |
| 0:53.4 | March is three months away. I still haven't recovered from from last March, but here we are. |
| 0:59.4 | And the end of the year, a lot has happened. We have created a lot here at DailyStoke. So I wanted to do kind of a best of |
| 1:07.4 | interview. One of the upsides of the pandemic for me was like we really got serious about the podcast. |
| 1:12.4 | Since I wasn't doing events, there's a way to kind of have an ongoing conversation and |
| 1:17.4 | a way to connect with people. Everyone else was home. So it was easy to record stuff. So here are chunks of three of the best |
| 1:24.4 | interviews I think I did this year. Certainly three of the most popular. Talking to Cal Newport, one of my |
| 1:30.4 | favorite writers, his book Deep Work, Super Info-Influent, she'll be one of my favorite people. He's a great friend. He and I talk about |
| 1:38.4 | that it's not huge amounts of hours that necessarily get great work done, but you know great systems, great practices in real |
| 1:46.4 | focus. Funny enough, like I've been obviously working during the pandemic, but it's really sort of totally re-oriented my |
| 1:53.4 | schedule. And I think in some ways I'm putting in less hours, but getting more output because I am so focused. |
| 2:00.4 | Jocco Willink, one of the most inspiring, intimidating people on the planet. His book Discipline Equals Freedom is very good. |
| 2:08.4 | My son loves his book The Way of the Warrior Kid, The Diagonomy of Leadership, Extreme Ownership, Jocco and Navy Seal, and all around badass. |
| 2:17.4 | He and I talk about like what the perfect day is. That was something I was curious to talk to him about. What is the ideal day look like for Jocco? |
| 2:24.4 | I've written about this before. I've described my morning routine in daily stoke a million times. So I won't bother you, but I am curious about Jocco's daily routine. |
| 2:31.4 | So that's in there. And then Tim Ferris and I talked at the very beginning of the pandemic. Tim was very serious about COVID very early. |
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