Options Equal Freedom | FRIDAY FIELD NOTES
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Friday Field Notes, Ryan Michler explores how creating options leads to true freedom. Expanding on the concept of "discipline equals freedom," Ryan argues that personal responsibility, open-mindedness, and sovereignty are key to unlocking a life of choice. He shares four actionable strategies to cultivate options, emphasizing self-improvement, avoiding rigid thinking, aligning relationships, and prioritizing liberty.
Ryan inspires listeners to take control of their lives and pursue their desired path.
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SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Introduction to Options and Freedom
02:35 - Fix Yourself First
04:59 - Never Pedestalize Anything
09:43 - Coinciding vs. Conflicting Interests
14:05 - Sovereignty as the Path to Liberty
17:45 - Reclaiming Your Sovereignty
20:00 - Closing Thoughts and Call to Action
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| 0:00.0 | If you're strapped for cash, if you're up to your eyeballs in debt, if you are at the behest or under the thumb of the medical industrial complex or big pharma or medication unnecessarily, if you don't have any money and so you have to work for this employer and because you work for this |
| 0:21.1 | employer and have no money, they're asking you to do something immoral and you're not in a position |
| 0:25.1 | to walk away. That's at odds of your sovereignty. |
| 0:30.3 | By now, everybody listening to this has heard the term discipline equals freedom, which Jocko said |
| 0:35.8 | probably, I don't know, five or ten years ago and |
| 0:37.7 | maybe longer. Aristotle once said something close to 2,000 years ago that through discipline |
| 0:43.1 | comes freedom. And I will say that I don't disagree with that. The whole concept of discipline |
| 0:49.6 | equating to freedom means that what we sacrifice in the short term gives us greater opportunities |
| 0:56.5 | and greater abundance and more of the life that we, I think most of us, choose to have. |
| 1:04.1 | The question is whether or not it's discipline that is really the thing that creates freedom in your life. |
| 1:10.0 | And I'm going to share some ideas not to be antithetical to that idea, but to round out the |
| 1:16.4 | perspective that not only is it through discipline comes freedom, but I believe that it's through |
| 1:21.4 | the options that we have, the options that we have to choose between what we do for work, |
| 1:27.1 | the options that we have to choose who we we do for work, the options that we have to |
| 1:29.1 | choose who we decide to spend the rest of our life with, the options that we have to choose |
| 1:34.4 | which ideologies and maybe even dogmas that we pursue that will hopefully lead us to |
| 1:40.0 | that kind of lives that we want to have. So again, this is not antithetical to the concept of |
| 1:45.0 | discipline equals freedom, but maybe gives us some new perspectives on what to look for. So today, |
| 1:49.9 | I'm going to share with you four things that you can do to create more options in your life, |
| 1:54.2 | and why having more options in your life ultimately gives you the freedom to choose, the freedom to |
| 1:59.3 | pursue, and the freedom to live the life |
| 2:01.8 | that you want. So let's just jump right into it. I've had a stepfather coming to my life about the |
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