Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson on Building Resilience and Communicating Effectively | It's About What You Make of It

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

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Ryan reads today’s meditation and has another conversation with Dr. William Stixrud and Ned Johnson about their new book What Do You Say?: How to Talk with Kids to Build Motivation, Stress Tolerance, and a Happy Home, experiencing adversity and developing resilience, why we should look at the last year as a gift that can improve our lives rather than a burden, how to teach kids to find purpose and control in their own lives, and more.

Ned Johnson is the president and founder of PrepMatters. A 1993 graduate of Williams College, Mr. Johnson has a BA in Economics and Political Science. Originally from Connecticut, Mr. Johnson now resides with his wife and children in Washington, DC.

William R. Stixrud, Ph.D., is a clinical neuropsychologist and founder of The Stixrud Group. He is a member of the teaching faculty at Children’s National Medical Center and an assistant professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today.
0:11.2	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.3	Meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight
0:24.3	here in everyday life and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy
0:31.9	well-known and obscure
0:33.9	fascinating and powerful with them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them
0:39.1	Become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives
0:44.7	But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors
0:48.3	It's about what you make of it lots of interesting things happen to people they they don't all become writers lots of interesting things happen to people who are
1:01.5	writers and it doesn't always translate
1:04.3	into great writing and that's because it's rarely about the raw material
1:09.1	It's about what the person turns the raw material into as Vivian Gornick explains what happened to the writer is not what
1:17.9	Matters what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened and so it is with life generally events happen
1:28.7	Some people ignore them some muddle through them some turn them into transformative moments
1:35.7	Stockdale took those
1:37.7	Experiences and the Hanoi Hilton and made them into something that in his own words
1:42.7	He would not have traded away
1:44.7	Marcus Arellius made himself into the kind of blazing fire that could turn whatever life through it him into fuel
1:51.5	He took being made emperor a job that made so many of his predecessors into monsters and he used this to become better
1:59.3	And as a writer he made something great out of what happened as well and this is what we must do
2:05.5	What happens is what happens what matters is what we're able to make of what happens and we have the ability to
2:13.9	Transform the raw materials of our experience into opportunities into art into growth
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