NFL Trainer Tareq Azim on Living Intentionally, Redefining Success, and Memento Mori

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🗓️ 26 February 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Ryan talks to NFL trainer and author Tareq Azim about his new book Empower: Conquering the Disease of Fear, why intention is a better indicator of long term growth than specific goals, the distinction between ego and confidence, the power of meditating on death, and more.

Tareq Azim is a seven-time World Championship attending coach in combat sports, a former Division I linebacker at Fresno State, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, an author, and a philanthropist. He also created the first Afghan Women’s Boxing Federation in 2004. Tareq’s mission is to normalize conversations about mental health, and this has driven his career and success throughout his life.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation
0:09.6	inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues
0:14.9	of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper
0:21.1	dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how
0:28.5	these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our
0:34.8	time. Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down,
0:41.3	be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal and most
0:47.2	importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.
0:51.6	Let's say you love sports, but are also, you know, a busy person.
0:55.2	You want to know the latest sports news, but don't want to sit through a two hour podcast.
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1:04.0	Listen to the lead starting five on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.
1:08.5	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. You might
1:17.6	have heard my interview with the ESPN writer Paul Kicks, who's book the saboteur. I've
1:22.8	recommended many times. He wrote a piece about me and Stoicism in the NFL and professional
1:29.9	sports. This would have been summer of 2020. But I think one of the best articles that
1:37.2	Paul has ever written is actually about today's guest. It's called Prepare for Death and
1:42.3	it was an ESPN feature. I'll just read you the deck headline of the piece because it gives
1:49.0	you a sense of the guest. A man who once stared down Afghan warlords is now transforming
1:55.8	NFL stars. This is the inside story of Torek Azim, Profit Ball's most revolutionary trainer.
2:05.2	I mean, that's pretty great. And I was happy enough to interview Torek in today's episode.
2:14.1	He has a new book called Empower Conquering the Disease of Fear. He's a seven time world
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