Ryan Holiday on Stillness Is the Key

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🗓️ 7 October 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Ryan Holiday talks about his latest book, Stillness Is the Key, with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Holiday explores how stillness--the cultivation of serenity and focus--can affect how we live and how we perceive life. Topics discussed include the performance artist Marina Abramovic, Winnie the Pooh, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Michael Jordan's Hall of Fame induction speech. Holiday also explains how he keeps track of information and how his system makes it easier for him to write his books.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org, where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:33.8	Today is July 23rd, 2019, and my guest is author Ryan Holiday.
0:39.6	This is Ryan's third appearance.
0:41.6	On Econ Talk, he was last year in April of 2018 talking about his book Conspiracy.
0:46.5	His latest book, Stillness is the Key, is the subject of today's conversation.
0:51.4	Ryan, welcome back to Econ Talk.
0:53.0	Yeah, I'm really honored to be here for a third time.
0:55.8	I'm just flattered.
0:56.8	You asked me back.
0:58.8	Always good to talk to you.
1:00.9	Let's start with what you mean by Stillness and why it's important that we cultivate it.
1:06.0	Well, I think one of the tricky things, my book serve before this was about ego, and then
1:12.9	this one is about stillness.
1:14.3	There is a kind of, you know it, when you see it, element and in ephableness to stillness.
1:21.5	So I don't know if I have this one sentence definition, but I think when I say the word
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