NFL Cornerback Jeff Okudah on Achieving Greatness

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🗓️ 17 July 2021

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On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to NFL cornerback Jeff Okudah about how to manage high expectations and criticism, how to recover from injury and over-training, why reading is so important and how books can change your life, and more.

Jeff Okudah is an American football cornerback for the Detroit Lions of the NFL. He played college football at Ohio State, where he was named a unanimous All-American and a finalist for the Jim Thorpe Award in 2019 before being selected by the Lions third overall in the 2020 NFL Draft.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:10.5	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday
0:14.8	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:18.7	Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice
0:23.6	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.0	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.0	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down
0:47.5	Be sure to take some time to think to go for a walk to sit with your journal and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring
1:00.4	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:07.2	I don't know about you, but sometimes it it hits you
1:10.9	Not how old you are, but just how easy you could sort of get lost in your conception of time
1:18.5	There's this great story of Seneca where he's visiting
1:22.2	One of his properties and the trees are getting old and the house is falling apart
1:26.3	And there's this old guy working on him and then it hits Seneca
1:29.2	He planted those trees himself
1:31.5	You know, and now they were old and dying and he just realizes how old he is in this moment
1:36.7	Everyone's all have a moment. I'll talk to someone and I'll have to look them up whatever I'll see when they're born and it just gives you
1:43.8	He's like, oh man today's guest was born in 1999
1:49.5	So this this is far and away the youngest guest on the Daily Stoic podcast if if
1:55.8	I'm not forgetting anyone it just hit me I
1:59.5	Mean, I know I'm only in my early early to mid-30s whatever you want to call it
2:03.7	But but just seeing 1999 and remembering very distinctly the year 1999 and how old I was in that year and I remember I just have memories of
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