Real Life Lessons from Ancient Greeks / Ryan Holiday & Joe De Sena
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday studies the place where ancient Greek philosophy meets current day high achievers with books like "Lives of the Stoics," "Ego is the Enemy," "The Obstacle is the Way," and "Stillness is the Key." He tells Spartan Race founder the lessons he learned from each of these explorations and how he applies them to his life. From his morning routine, to his thoughts on exercise, and his method and philosophy for writing ten successful books.
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| 0:00.0 | really the true grades are not arrogant. |
| 0:03.0 | They're actually very humble. |
| 0:04.2 | And that humility and that hunger |
| 0:06.4 | is what makes them great. |
| 0:07.7 | And so there's no philosophy, no religion, |
| 0:11.7 | no school of thought that's like ego makes you better. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to the Spartan Up podcast with Joe Desena, founder and CEO of Spartan Race. |
| 0:21.0 | We are talking about overcoming obstacles. |
| 0:25.0 | The same way we teach people to get over obstacles on the course, we will teach you here |
| 0:31.8 | on the Spartan Up Podcast to get over obstacles in your mind. |
| 0:35.0 | Today on Spartan Up, Joe Descenta sits down with Ryan Holliday, author of the obstacle is the way, ego is the enemy, |
| 0:45.3 | and his latest book The Lives of the Stoics. He says philosophy, it's not just for books, |
| 0:50.1 | it's for life. This episode of Spartan Up is brought to you by Lumen metabolism tracker. |
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| 1:03.6 | Visit lumen. M. E to order and use the code Spartan 50 for $50 off. |
| 1:09.2 | All right guys here we go. |
| 1:11.3 | Joe DeScentre here for Spartan Up Podcast. |
| 1:13.3 | I got Ryan Holiday, Superstar, Obstacle is the Way Guy. |
| 1:17.6 | Yeah, this is unbelievable. |
| 1:18.4 | You and I met each other. |
| 1:20.7 | Where were we? |
| 1:21.2 | California? |
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