Ryan Holiday on Discipline Is Destiny

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🗓️ 24 October 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Author Ryan Holiday talks about his book, Discipline Is Destiny, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday discusses the mentor who taught him discipline, the self-control of Queen Elizabeth, the world-champion boxer who counseled the man who defeated him in the ring, and the forgotten Roman emperor who helped make Marcus Aurelius the man he would become.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, Conversations for the Curious, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:07.8	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Shalem College in Jerusalem and Stanford University's Hoover
0:12.7	Institution.
0:13.7	Go to econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this episode and find links down
0:18.6	the information related to today's conversation.
0:21.4	You'll also find our archives, but every episode we've done going back to 2006.
0:26.8	Our email address is mail at econtalk.org.
0:30.3	We'd love to hear from you.
0:37.8	Today is October 6, 2022.
0:39.8	My guest is author Ryan Holiday.
0:42.6	This is Ryan's fourth appearance.
0:44.3	So, in Econ Talk, he was last year in October, talking about his book Stillness is the
0:49.1	key.
0:50.3	Our topic for today is his latest book Discipline is Destiny, the Power of Self-Control.
0:56.4	Ryan, welcome back to econ Talk.
0:58.7	Yeah, I guess this would have been October 2019, right?
1:02.6	So, a couple of things have happened between that and now.
1:06.9	A little bit.
1:07.9	Yeah.
1:08.9	Let's start by this book as part of a series.
1:12.0	Yes.
1:13.0	So, tell us about that series.
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