Shane Parrish on Finding Clarity and Making Better Decisions (Pt 1)
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2023
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with entrepreneur and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street Shane Parrish on Why people who are popular on social don’t succeed when they write books, The mark of wisdom is looking downstream and seeing how a decision affects your life, Delaying gratification isnt easy but is important to learn and his book Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results a must-have manual for optimizing decision-making, gaining competitive advantage, and living a more intentional life.
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Shane is the entrepreneur and wisdom seeker behind Farnam Street and the host of The Knowledge Podcast, where he focuses on turning timeless insights into actions. Shane’s popular online course, Decisions by Design, has helped thousands of executives, leaders, and managers around the world learn the repeatable behaviors that improve results. His expertise is rooted in personal experience–he started working at an intelligence agency in 2001. Clar and critical thinking became a matter of life or death for him. He had to quicly learn how to methodize good judgment and make better decisions under pressure. He’s since dedicated his life to mastering these lessons and sharing them with others. Shane’s work has been featured in nearly every major publication, including the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Forbes.
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| 0:39.2 | Hi, it's me, the O.G. Green Grump, the Grinch. |
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| 0:45.9 | grilling celebrity guests, like chestnuts on an open fire. |
| 0:49.7 | They'll try to get my heart to grow a few sizes, |
| 0:51.9 | but it's not gonna to work, honey. |
| 0:53.6 | Follow Tis the Grinch Holiday Talk Show on the Wundry app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 1:10.4 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those |
| 1:15.2 | four stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 1:20.3 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. |
| 1:25.0 | We interview Stoic philosophers. |
| 1:28.0 | We explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 1:37.0 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down. |
| 1:43.0 | Be sure to take some time to think, |
| 1:45.8 | to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, |
| 1:48.5 | and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
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