MLB All-Star Ian Happ on the Power of Discipline
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Ian Happ about how practicing Stoic principles helps him play better baseball, the mindset of a professional athlete, how he uses discipline to overcome self-doubt, and more.
Ian Happ is a professional baseball player who plays for the Chicago Cubs. Ian made his MLB debut with the Cubs in 2017, and since then he has hit 108 home runs, driven in 308 RBIs, and accumulated a batting average of .249. In 2022, he was selected for the All-Star game for the first time, and he won a Gold Glove Award for his play in left field. In 2021, Ian invested in Jomboy Media, a digital media company that produces content focused on sports and pop culture, and on which he hosts The Compound.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation |
| 0:09.9 | inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues |
| 0:15.2 | of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper |
| 0:21.3 | dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how |
| 0:28.7 | these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time. |
| 0:36.3 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, |
| 0:41.6 | be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most |
| 0:47.4 | importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:51.9 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Exciting |
| 1:05.5 | news that we're building out a new podcast studio for the Daily Stoic, which should be done |
| 1:10.2 | here very shortly. So we'll be doing more of these in person, which will be fun. It'll |
| 1:18.2 | make the YouTube edition of the podcast. I think a little bit more watchable, hopefully |
| 1:21.9 | get better clips out of it. And then there's always something special about the in person |
| 1:26.8 | conversations, which got sort of interrupted from COVID back in 2020. And then we got into |
| 1:32.6 | doing Skype and zoom. And you know, hopefully now we can go back to doing it the other way, |
| 1:38.8 | which I'm really excited to do. And today's guest, if I had known where he was, just a |
| 1:44.6 | few miles down the road for me, we would have done this as one of the first in person episodes. |
| 1:51.1 | My guest today is Golden Glove winner, Major League Baseball All Star, just in all around |
| 1:58.5 | great athlete Ian Hatt, a left-fielder for the Chicago Cubs. He's also the host of his |
| 2:04.4 | own podcast, The Compound, part of John Boy Media. And we just really get into it in today's |
| 2:11.8 | episode. We're talking about excellence, talking about self-improvement. And we're talking |
| 2:16.5 | about how one gets better at having what they call in baseball pitch discipline, knowing |
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