The Discipline Expert: The 4 Surprising & Easy Habits ALL High Achievers Have! (Based On 2,000 Years Of Research) - Ryan Holiday
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
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🗓️ 24 August 2023
⏱️ 86 minutes
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Summary
In this new episode Steven sits down with the bestselling author Ryan Holiday. Ryan is best known for promoting the timeless life philosophy of Stoicism through his books, ‘Ego Is The Enemy’, ‘The Obstacle Is The Way’, ‘Courage Is Calling’ and ‘Discipline Is Destiny’, as well as hosting ’The Daily Stoic’ podcast.
In this conversation Ryan and Steven discuss topics, such as:
- How researching Stoicism has made Ryan a better person
- Ryan’s definition of Stoicism
- How Stoicism provides a guide to the big questions of life
- The ways an ancient philosophy can be applied to the modern world
- How 'Meditations' by Marcus Aurelius changed Ryan's life
- The timeless questions of the human experience
- How Stoicism helps people to navigate in a world of problems
- The 4 cardinal virtues of Stoicism
- How Ryan has viewed Stoicism differently over his life
- The different meanings of discipline
- How discipline can lead to freedom
- What is true freedom
- How exercise creates control over the mind
- The importance of keeping commitments to yourself
- You are what you do
- How to set the correct goals
- Setting the definitions of your own success
- How taking care of yourself physically sets you up to thrive emotionally
- Why we need struggles and difficulty in life
- Why we need to confront our ego
- How human nature hasn't changed over the course of history
- Reading as a way of living multiple lives
- What Ryan thinks is the meaning of life
- The key pieces of wisdom that cross time and cultures
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I can help you get more of what you want, create the highest form of discipline, |
| 0:04.4 | how not to care about what other people think. |
| 0:06.8 | That's the meaning of life right there. |
| 0:08.5 | So Ryan Holiday, the modern day philosopher King, whose books have sold more than four |
| 0:13.7 | million copies all across the world. Helping people to live better, more heat for lots. |
| 0:18.7 | We live in a time where we procrastinate. It's totally screwed up. |
| 0:23.2 | Why do we not prioritize our health? Why do we not do the stuff that we know we should do? |
| 0:28.7 | Because we think we have forever. But the reality is you do have a terminal diagnosis. |
| 0:32.8 | And to live injection of that fact is to waste your life. |
| 0:36.4 | So how do we change that? |
| 0:37.5 | It takes a lot of courage and it takes a lot of discipline. |
| 0:40.7 | Discipline is the ability to do hard stuff that you don't want to do |
| 0:45.2 | for benefits way down the line. And there's almost no one who is successful in life who does not |
| 0:50.4 | have that form with discipline. Like if you can cultivate that, you're gaining |
| 0:54.6 | freedom that a lot of people have never even tasted. But it's very hard to be disciplined |
| 1:00.3 | as you're stuffing your face or you feel like garbage. |
| 1:03.3 | You need struggle. So do something physically difficult every day. |
| 1:06.9 | A strong mind and a strong body. You have to have both. |
| 1:10.5 | So what do you say to those people that find themselves completely absent of a parent discipline? |
| 1:15.2 | It's such a critical thing that you need as otherwise somebody else determines whether you're |
| 1:20.7 | good or not. And that's not how you want to go through life. So here's a set of strategies |
| 1:24.8 | that will help you whatever life has in store for you. |
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