Finding Stillness in a Fast Paced World with Ryan Holiday
The Chase Jarvis LIVE Show
Chase Jarvis
4.8 • 641 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday is described by the New York Times as popularizing stoicism, a philosophy of personal ethics which has been practiced by Kings, presidents, artists, writers, and entrepreneurs. His career started at 19 when he dropped out of college at 19 to work with author Robert Greene. Today, he’s a NYT Bestselling author, with 9 books under his belt, including his latest book: Stillness Is the Key which hit #1 on its first week.
In this episode:
- Stillness isn’t a monk-like existence only reserved for the enlightened. Stillness is the idea of being still in a chaotic world and where our best work will come from.
- Ryan’s personal habits and process during the creation process to find stillness and it doesn’t include meditation.
- How to say no and build a practice around managing your time.
Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | All right, I'm just being real here. |
| 0:05.0 | You are about to hear wisdom hitting your eardrums any second now, |
| 0:12.0 | because I am about to sit down in this conversation with the one, the only, Mr. Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:19.0 | I think Ryan ties the record for most guest appearances on the show here, |
| 0:24.6 | and it's because he is an amazing and prolific author, and so much of his work speaks directly to us |
| 0:31.0 | creators and entrepreneurs. And his new book, Stillness is the key, is the key topic of our |
| 0:36.6 | conversation. Not the only topic, but a huge part of it, and for good reason, new book, Stillness is the key, is the key topic of our conversation. |
| 0:39.7 | Not the only topic, but a huge part of it. |
| 0:42.9 | And for good reason, this book is a masterpiece. |
| 0:51.3 | I have, I think Ryan shares in this interview that I was his very first interview for the first book that he ever dropped. |
| 0:52.9 | And so this is a full circle moment. |
| 0:57.4 | Nine books now, millions and millions of copies sold. And this one, he just dropped this week and went straight to number one on the New York |
| 1:02.3 | Times bestseller list. So inspirational, so deserved. And this book truly is a game changer, |
| 1:09.9 | as is this particular conversation |
| 1:11.7 | where we talk about everything from what part creativity plays |
| 1:15.5 | in our mind, in our spirit, in our daily habits, |
| 1:19.4 | and the value, I think the unsung value of quiet, of stillness. |
| 1:24.5 | You've heard me talk in all kinds of different places. |
| 1:29.2 | You read it in my book about the value of quiet, of stillness. You've heard me talk in all kinds of different places. You read it in my book about the value of quiet. There's sort of two modes. There's open and closed. There's where you're |
| 1:34.2 | out there gathering inspiration and information. And then you have to get quiet and synthesize |
| 1:39.1 | that information as a part of the creative process. Ryan totally nails that in this book, |
| 1:44.4 | and especially in this conversation, |
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