Dr. Nate Zinsser, Josh Peck, Annie Duke, Amy Morin, Paul Bloom, and Yung Pueblo on Building Better Habits
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ryan looks back on some of the best discussions of 2022 that he and his guests had about building better habits. Featuring Dr. Nate Zinsser on looking for the positive aspects of your life while maintaining objective awareness, Josh Peck on his journey getting sober, Annie Duke on the power of walking away from things that don’t align with your beliefs, Amy Morin on overcoming mentally challenging situations by gaining perspective, Paul Bloom on the importance of recognizing our own bias, and Yung Pueblo on why serving the common good is the most valuable metric to measure great work by.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:09.3 | by the ancient stillyx, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find |
| 0:14.7 | strength and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:18.3 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:24.2 | and obscure, fascinating and powerful. |
| 0:27.5 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:32.4 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives, but first we've got a quick message |
| 0:38.9 | from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:41.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:50.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | It all comes down to habits, right? |
| 0:58.1 | Aristotle said that virtue wasn't this thing that you had or you didn't, was a habit |
| 1:03.7 | you practiced. |
| 1:04.7 | And by practicing the habit, you became that thing or closer to embodying that thing. |
| 1:12.5 | And that's what the stillyx were working on. |
| 1:15.0 | Marcus Aurelis is writing this stuff down and practicing and talking about them. |
| 1:18.6 | That's what stillicism was. |
| 1:20.3 | It was a set of habits, a set of practices away of thinking and acting. |
| 1:25.1 | So in the little moments, so that in the big, big moments, our training shined through. |
| 1:31.3 | But I'll get to today's episode, which is all about habits, all about personal development. |
| 1:35.6 | We talked with Dr. Nate Zinser about how we build confidence. |
| 1:41.6 | Talk to Amy Moran, whose book, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do. |
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