Michael Dell on Calculating Risk and Playing Nice But Winning

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

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🗓️ 6 November 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Ryan talks to founder and CEO of one of America’s largest technology companies Michael Dell about his new book Play Nice But Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader, the balance between trusting yourself and trusting the opinions of experts, focusing on what you can control, and more.

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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
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.3	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:19.2	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:24.1	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.5	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things
0:46.9	Have slowed down be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal
0:53.9	And most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:01.5	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:05.5	Let me tell you a story that takes me way back to the first week of March
1:11.7	2020
1:13.1	Obviously I'd vaguely heard of this pandemic thing, but I was out to dinner with my wife and my kids
1:20.7	And I'm just leaving. I'm walking back to my car to drive to the house and I noticed I hadn't been
1:27.6	Had my phone on me and a whole bunch of texts and emails are there
1:31.5	No joke from Michael Dell. Where are you? Are you coming? What happened? Are you okay? You know stuff like that
1:39.9	Because I was supposed to have dinner with him that well not really so okay. Here's what happened
1:46.9	I thought we were having dinner on the sixth and I think it was actually on the fifth. I'm trying to remember
1:53.4	I won't say who's to blame. I would say I didn't introduce the mistake, but ultimately I
1:59.4	Have to own the mistake and I missed a dinner a chance to have dinner with one of the most successful
2:07.8	Businessmen in the world
2:10.1	Someone whose products I have used for many many many many years
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