Ryan Holiday: 5/3/16

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 3 May 2016

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Holiday is a writer, marketer, and entrepreneur best known for his books Trust Me I'm Lying and The Obstacle is the Way. Ryan's latest book, Ego is the Enemy, is due out in early June. Preorder it today by clicking here. This week, Ryan talks about why he wrote a book about stoicism [5:00], how he came up with the idea for Ego is the Enemy [14:00], and the different ideas he still grapples with in his writing [27:00]. Plus, Ryan talks about the difference between ego and confidence [33:00] and why your most important networking tool is asking smart questions [46:00]. The Moment is brought to you by Open Account, a podcast that gets personal about making, losing, and living with money. Created by Umpqua Bank and hosted by SuChin Pak, download and subscribe to Open Account wherever you get your podcasts. Shownotes: Slate.com/TheMoment Twitter: @BrianKoppelman Review us: itunes.com/themoment To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is brought to you by Open Account, a podcast that gets personal about making, losing, and living with money.
0:07.0	Created by Umpqua Bank and hosted by Succian Pac,
0:11.0	download and subscribe to Open Account wherever you get. Such an this is Brian. Today's guest Ryan Holiday will be in a second. His book is not out yet, but if you
0:25.1	order it now, it counts toward his first week's release. And we'll talk about it a bunch during
0:31.1	the podcast, but I can tell you it's excellent ego is the
0:34.1	enemy really worth your time order it now it'll be delivered when it comes out all
0:39.0	right podcast starting now now.
0:51.0	Hey, this is the moment. I'm Brian Koppelman. Thanks for listening. It's always great when I'm able to have somebody on the show
0:55.2	who's not just somebody whose work I dig,
0:58.0	but somebody who's a friend.
1:00.2	And over the past few years, Ryan Holliday and I have become friends in that very sort of 2016 way of...
1:07.0	But actually we've spent real time in person, Ryan,
1:11.0	which is different, I think yeah well I didn't know if I was
1:15.9	going to make it today because it's crazy flooding in Texas and so they have this big
1:19.5	thing in Texas where it says like turn around don't drown so if there's flash flooding and you're
1:24.1	on your way to the airport just to turn around but I didn't turn around I made it.
1:27.3	You proceeded.
1:28.3	I kept doing it.
1:29.3	In fact I saw on Twitter when you said you were you were taking off or something and I thought like how
1:34.0	how is for I'm gonna get here by six o'clock but you did somehow you got here on time and so
1:39.8	Ryan thanks for being here man. Yeah, I'm excited.
1:43.4	You are, I guess you first came to fame
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