Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing | Think About This

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🗓️ 4 August 2021

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead about the cultural pillars of the Rams organization, making tough decisions under intense pressure, ignoring the short term incentives and the noise that comes along with his profession, and more.

Les Snead is an American football executive who is the general manager of the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football League. Snead played tight end for Auburn from 1992-93 and was part of the Tigers’ perfect 11-0 team in 1993. He also earned Southeast Region Academic All-American honors during his college career. He is in his 10th season as general manager of the Rams. Prior to joining the Rams, Snead spent 13 seasons with the Atlanta Falcons. Snead is married to Kara Henderson Snead, a sports media personality.

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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.
0:11.3	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a
0:16.5	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
0:32.0	well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful. With them we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are
0:41.0	and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
0:48.0	Think about this. It's probably because it's painful that we don't do it very often. But when was the last time you really thought about a moment
0:55.0	when whatever you did words or said was wrong? Did you really, really wrong? Maybe you were gunhoo about inventing a rack,
1:12.0	maybe you used to一直 expansion infinity to a bunch of cryptocurrency in 2014 before the crash. Maybe you fell for a scam, or you got caught up.
1:20.0	and bad company. Maybe you're older and you grew up with a negative view of Martin Luther King
1:25.7	Jr. and his agitation tactics. Maybe you and some college phase were optimistic about the potential
1:32.0	of Hugo Chavez or some other dictator. The point is you've had moments when you were wrong.
1:38.4	It happens to all of us. And yet as we've talked about before, we struggle to come to terms with this,
1:43.9	despite its universality. Clearly it wasn't easy for Sennaka to come to terms with how badly he
1:50.4	misjudged Nero. Don't you think Marcus Aurelius had at least a little bit of trouble seeing the truth
1:56.0	about Lucius Varis or Avidius Cassius? Admitting you have been wrong about something can be very
2:02.4	uncomfortable, especially the more public your air was. But we can't shy away from the reality of
2:08.4	that uncomfortable truth. If anything we have to deliberately seek out this discomfort because
2:14.4	wisdom at a very minimum is about not making the same mistake twice. If Marcus had been able to
2:20.7	wrestle with his blindness to certain people's flaws, might he have been able to avert disaster
2:26.0	with his son, Comedis? No where in Sennaka's writings in his extensive personal correspondence
2:32.4	does he deal with his complicity in Nero's misdeeds? Had he been willing to discuss it, prob it?
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