Ryan Holiday shares 3 rules for life

Three Rules

Matt D'Avella

Advice, Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Business, Documentary, Selfhelp, Howto, Health & Fitness, Tv, Health, Self-help

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🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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I’m joined by Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of 'The Obstacle Is the Way’ and ‘Ego Is the Enemy’. His latest book, ‘Right Thing, Right Now’, is all about how building character can change your life’. On the podcast Ryan shares three rules that helped him find success & happiness.

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Follow Ryan: instagram.com/ryanholiday Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:46 Rule #1: Always be reading. 02:45 Rule #2: Seek out mentors 07:50 Rule #3: Say yes. Then say no.

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0:00.0	The ability to sort of sift out what's important and what's not important and the discipline
0:04.6	to be able to say no, the confidence to say no, is I think one of the most important skills you can have.
0:10.6	Hey, Matt DeVella here and welcome to three rules, a self-development podcast where I keep things
0:15.3	practical, actionable, and most importantly, to the point. Each episode, I sit down with a guest to find out their three rules for finding success
0:23.5	or happiness.
0:24.5	For my first episode, I'm joined by Ryan Holiday, bestselling author of The Obstacle
0:28.5	is the Way and Ego is the Enemy.
0:30.5	His latest book is all about how building character can change your life.
0:33.9	It's called Right Thing Right Now.
0:37.0	Ryan, thanks for being here.
0:38.3	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:39.3	This is episode one.
0:40.3	I haven't done this before, so I'm still figuring out the rules of the show.
0:44.3	What's rule number one for you?
0:46.3	My main rule has always been to always be reading.
0:49.3	There's this idea, you can learn by trial and error, you can learn by experience,
0:52.3	or you can learn from the experiences of others.
0:55.7	So I always try to, whenever I'm gonna do something
0:58.3	or when I'm setting out in a different space,
1:00.9	is I go like, what if smart people, you know,
1:04.1	who went before me said about this?
1:05.6	And then also what of like the big mistakes
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