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The Daily Stoic

Guy Raz — “How I Built This” and Solving Our Big Problems

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with How I Built This creator and host Guy Raz about how we deal with big collective action problems in an era of increased polarization, harnessing entrepreneurial energy to help society, and more.

Guy Raz is a podcast creator and host with a combined audience of over 19 million downloads a month. He is the creator and host of How I Built This, a podcast about entrepreneurs, and also co-created NPR’s TED Radio Hour and Wow in the World. Guy joined NPR in 1997 and has worked every single newsroom job from production assistant to news anchor.

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

0:22.0

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

0:51.0

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

1:01.0

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Seru tea and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. Every week on Redhanded we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

1:10.0

From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

1:15.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

1:23.0

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

1:33.0

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour.

1:38.0

Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist?

1:44.0

Listen to Redhanded wherever you get your podcast. So, and access our bonus shorthand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

1:56.0

Hello, it is Matt and Alice from British scandal here and we wanted to let you know that this season we are very excited to be covering the Cambridge Spies.

2:06.0

It's got everything you could possibly want from a series of British scandal, treachery in the establishment, overconfident public schoolboys and strange meetings on park benches.

2:16.0

Check, check, and double check. You can search and follow British scandal wherever you listen to podcasts or listen early and add free via the Wondry Plus subscription in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

2:27.0

Hey everyone, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcasts. You know, I don't talk a lot about what you might call my day job here because to many of you I'm sure this sort of is my day job.

2:45.0

But although I write my own books, one of the things that brass check my company does and has done for a long time is sort of advise on produce in some cases conceptualize or create projects that other authors put out or that publishers are looking for.

3:02.0

And so over the years I've gotten to work with all sorts of cool authors and entrepreneurs and businesses, you know, brass checks work with everyone from Google, the Twitter, we've worked with Tim Ferris, we worked with Tony Robbins.

3:15.0

A few years ago, I got this inquiry from from an agent at UTA who was working on a book about a potential radio show that they were maybe going to launch.

3:26.0

The project didn't come to anything right then, but that that show ended up launching how I built this with Guy Ross, which is one of the biggest podcasts in the world, one of the podcasts I've listened to more than any other podcast of listening, you know, hours and hours of guy interview some of the biggest entrepreneurs in history, living entrepreneurs in the world.

3:49.0

And so when the project came back around and they were trying to conceptualize how you would you would build a book around the show, brass check my writing partner, Niels, who have had on the podcast recently, we're lucky enough to sort of advise on the project and actually I suggested the the book sort of be built around one of my favorite classic books.

4:10.0

It's a book called How They Succeeded, Life Stories of Successful Men Told by Themselves by a long dead self help author and an orison sweat Martin. This book was actually really influential when I was writing obstacles the way.

4:22.0

So anyways, that book is now out by the excellent Guy Ross. It's a fantastic book and he's my guest today.

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