Gary Vaynerchuk, David Rubenstein, Ali Abdaal, Emily Oster, Brad Feld, and Randall Stutman on Business and Success | It’s Time To Snap Out Of It

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

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🗓️ 22 December 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and looks back at some of the best interviews on business from 2021. Featuring entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk on the best way to maintain long term business success, billionaire David Rubenstein on learning from past historical figures’ successes and from their mistakes, Ali Abdaal on staying productive and getting your life organized, economist Emily Oster on how to communicate positive messaging and weigh out risk vs rationality, venture capitalist Brad Feld on why entrepreneurs have to focus attention inward toward self-improvement, and Randall Stutman on making people better.

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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
0:24.0	here in everyday life and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy
0:31.5	well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful. With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them
0:39.0	become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
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1:04.0	Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcast.
1:08.0	It's time to snap out of it. Look guys there's just nine more days to sign up for the Daily Stoic New Year New Year Challenge.
1:19.0	And if you need a last minute gift for a friend or a family member you want to do it as part of a team or a group together you can gift the New Year New Year Challenge as well.
1:28.0	Well let's get into it. Over the last 21 months you've asked these questions. What day is it?
1:32.0	Was that this morning or yesterday afternoon that I showered? It's already December? What even is time?
1:42.0	And this collective disorientation dates back at least as early as April 2020 when Kate McKinnen opened the first SNL at home with live from Zoom at some time between March and August.
1:54.0	And Tom Hanks put it in a way that remains relatable. He said there's no such thing as Saturdays anymore. It's just every day is today.
2:06.0	And on the one hand this is funny and it's funny that searches for what day is it continue to spike and it's funny that weekends feel like weekdays and weekdays feel like weekends.
2:15.0	But on the other hand it's alarming. It's alarming the rate at which 2021 flew by. All the things we said we were going to do, the goals we were going to accomplish, the books we were going to read, the projects we were going to complete, the boxes we were going to check off.
2:31.0	We didn't get to many of them or any of them. And that should alarm us. Every day more of our life is used up unless and less of it is left.
2:42.0	Mark Sirrelius wrote, and so quoting Heracles, he said, our words and actions should not be like those of sleepers.
2:51.0	But that's what so many of us have started to do. We've begun to sleepwalk through life as life is walking, nay running away from us.
2:59.0	Well, it's time to wake up. We must be deliberate. We must snap out of this endless trance. How? Well, we created the 2022 New Year New Year challenge with an eye towards that.
3:16.0	We chose challenges that the Stoics themselves would do when they found themselves as Musoneus Rufus put it following wretched habit.
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