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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Ego is the enemy, and how to use this to your advantage with Ryan Holiday

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Ryan is a media strategist and prominent writer on strategy and business. After dropping out of college at 19 to apprentice under Robert Greene, Author of The 48 Laws of Power, he went on to advise many best-selling authors and multi-platinum musicians.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Fire Nation into house, JLD here in Wacompt episode 1418 of EO Fire. Right

0:09.9

child with today's most successful entrepreneurs, a seven days a week. And

0:14.7

quick question, are you meditating daily? It is a proven to have incredible

0:19.2

benefits for those who do and personally I struggle with this. So I created

0:24.2

seven meditation. Check it out at sevenmeditation.com. And we're going to

0:28.5

chat with today's featured guest now, Mr. Ryan Holiday three peets. Ryan, are

0:34.2

you prepared to ignite? I am. Yes. Ryan's immediate strategist and prominent

0:40.9

writer on both strategy and business. After dropping out of college at 19 to

0:45.3

apprentice under Robert Green, the author of the 48 Laws of Power, he went on

0:49.1

to advise many bestselling authors in multi-platinum musicians. Ryan, take

0:54.9

a minute, fill in some gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of

0:58.7

your personal life. Yeah, I was the director of marketing and American

1:02.8

apparel for a number of years. I wrote my first book in 2012 and now I am

1:08.2

finishing number six as we as we speak. I have it. I've been up on the computer

1:13.3

right now. Wow. So yeah, and I live in in Austin, Texas on a small farm. So I'm

1:19.5

doing the writer thing. So if you're finishing number six right now, that means

1:24.7

you're probably going to be a four-peets on EOS, which is not happened very

1:30.2

often. I think I had literally have two four-peets in 1418 episodes. So you'll

1:36.0

be joining a pretty esteemed crowd or I am, but you're a pretty esteemed guy. That

1:40.0

would be an honor. In Fire Nation, if you've missed episode 34, I mean, please go

1:46.1

back and listen to that. Ryan was amazing. Of course, I was horrible. It was my 34th

1:50.7

episode. Then check out 575 where we both crushed it. And now 1418, which of

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