Stillness is the Key | RYAN HOLIDAY
Order of Man
Ryan Michler
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
We live in a climate where we are inundated with messages, opportunities, and entertainment. We’ve demanded and created a culture where we are never bored, never quiet, and never satisfied. But what if that noise was one of the largest barriers to satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives?
Today, I am joined by repeat guest, Ryan Holiday, to talk about his new book, Stillness is the Key. We cover why stillness is the key to mastery, freedom, happiness, and tranquility. We also do a deeper dive into the power of saying, “no,” how to conquer anger, finding confidence but avoiding ego, and how stillness truly is the key.
SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
- A better way of living
- It’s all about the present
- Needing stillness in your life
- The pre-occupied mind
- Getting into the zone
- Taking control of your environment
- How to model stillness
- Misery in complete freedom
- Learning to say no
- Applying filters to life
- Choosing meaningfulness
- Making conscience decisions
- Giving up destructive control
- Focusing on the controllable
- How to conquer anger
RYAN HOLIDAY
My guest today is Ryan Holiday. You’ve heard him on this podcast before and many of you likely already know who he is and have read his books, Ego is the Enemy, The Obstacle is the Way, and The Daily Stoic.
He is someone I consider to be a great thinker and many of his ideas and works have helped me find the philosophy of Stoicism and discover more satisfaction and fulfillment in my life.
I’m honored to have Ryan back on the podcast to talk about the concept of stillness. This is one area I really struggle with so reading his new book and, of course, having this conversation proved to be transformative for me. I know it will be for you too.
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| 0:00.0 | We live in a climate where we are inundated with messages and opportunities and entertainment. |
| 0:06.1 | We've demanded and created a culture where we are never bored, never quiet and frankly never satisfied. |
| 0:12.9 | But what if that noise was one of the largest barriers to satisfaction and fulfillment in our lives? |
| 0:20.1 | Today, I'm joined by repeat guest Ryan Holiday to talk about his new book Stillness is the key. |
| 0:26.4 | We cover why Stillness is the key to mastery, freedom, happiness and tranquility. |
| 0:32.3 | We also do a deeper dive into the power of saying no, how to conquer anger, finding confidence, |
| 0:38.2 | but avoiding ego and how Stillness truly is the key. |
| 0:41.9 | You're a man of action. You live life to the fullest. |
| 0:44.6 | Embrace your fears and boldly charge your own path. When life knocks you down, |
| 0:49.0 | you get back up one more time, every time. You are not easily deterred or defeated. |
| 0:54.4 | Rugged, resilient, strong. This is your life. This is who you are. This is who you will become. |
| 1:01.4 | At the end of the day and after all is said and done, you can call yourself a man. |
| 1:06.5 | Gentlemen, what is going on today? My name is Ryan Nicler and I have been |
| 1:10.0 | hosting and the founder of this podcast and the movement. That is an order of man. I want to welcome you back. |
| 1:15.5 | I want to welcome you for the first time, regardless of how long you've been tuning in, even if this is |
| 1:20.0 | the first time you've ever heard the show. This is a podcast and a movement. |
| 1:23.6 | A movement to recapture and reclaim masculinity in a society that seems to be increasingly dismissive of it. |
| 1:30.5 | It's my goal to give you the conversations and tools and guidance and direction that you need to |
| 1:34.7 | more adequately step up as a capable husband, father, business owner, leader in your community |
| 1:40.8 | and every other facet of life that you're showing up as. We've got this interview show. |
| 1:44.9 | I'm interviewing today, Ryan Holiday, but we've had guys like Jocke Willink, David Goggins, |
| 1:49.7 | Grant Cardone, Andy Frasilla. I say it every week, but the lineup of men that have decided to |
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