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Welcome back to Patrick Boyle on finance. So over the last few months, I found myself on a lot of long

drives in the car listening to a number of podcasts. Many of the ones I enjoyed involved interviews with interesting and successful people.

And I noticed that many of these interviews are the topics being discussed, are effectively self-help for successful people.

A lot of the most popular podcasters today are themselves quite wealthy and their content

is aimed at an already successful follower base.

People like Tim Ferriss, Shane Parrish, Ryan Holliday, Mark Manson and James Clear would

all fall into this category, along with some of the Joe Rogan motivational clips that you

can find here on YouTube. There are many

interesting themes that I found that run through the advice given in these podcasts, such as to set

a work schedule, to focus on the difficult things first, to write down lists of goals and affirmations,

to focus on the things you can control and accept the things that you can't,

and to be radically honest with both yourself and the people that you deal with.

I'd love to hear what interesting or inspiring podcasts or YouTube channels you guys enjoy as well,

so do let me know in the comment section.

Some of the advice related to people going full circle,

they started out working with a good job, but one in which they possibly have less controlled

than they might have liked to have, where their time and their work schedule is structured

and defined by their employer. After going to great lengths to escape that framework inspired by

entrepreneurship or ideas around the early retirement fire movement, they became more autonomous.

But then they found a need to find discipline and to build a new structure in their life

that ensures that they continue learning,

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