The Single Most Important Parenting Advice l With Ryan Holiday
The GaryVee Audio Experience
Gary Vaynerchuk
4.8 • 18.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Today's episode of the podcast is an interview I did on Ryan Holiday's podcast the Daily Stoic, we delve into a discussion on content creation, attention spans, and self-discipline. The conversation highlights the value of authenticity in content, emphasizing that high production value is less critical than relatability and genuine connection with the audience. I emphasize the power of self-discipline, noting how it can influence others positively through example rather than enforcement. We also discuss how parents can integrate children's interests in technology with real-world experiences, advocating for a balanced approach to screen time. Hope you enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | In the last five years, I realized my mom was showing me how to live versus telling me how to live. |
| 0:04.4 | One of the profound things of self-discipline is it accomplishes the goal that most parents, coaches, managers, and leaders want. |
| 0:10.9 | A lot of people want to deploy discipline on others by acting with |
| 0:14.0 | self-discipline. It actually creates the osmosis on your circles that you're looking for. |
| 0:18.4 | Attention is the number one asset. Do you think people's attention spans are getting shorter? |
| 0:23.7 | No, I really don't. |
| 0:26.2 | I think that they have optionality on short form consumption that didn't exist prior. |
| 0:31.8 | But I think in fact I'll argue the counter. I think people are |
| 0:35.8 | binge watching eight hours of a Netflix. True. Or way more than eight hours. |
| 0:39.6 | YouTube show like my like some of my blogs or other people's can run very long yeah no I actually I |
| 0:45.1 | actually think we we have more optionality but like I'll give you the example the |
| 0:50.0 | Saturday morning comics used to crush in print. |
| 0:55.0 | And nobody like over-emphasized like, |
| 0:57.5 | are we getting attention shortage |
| 0:58.8 | when people would like rip through those |
| 1:00.9 | in four seconds like Garfield or Charlie Brown. |
| 1:04.0 | I think we are concerned about social |
| 1:07.4 | because it's such a paradigm shift. |
| 1:09.2 | And we've become obsessed with looking at the negatives of it |
| 1:12.3 | versus the positives. and I think that |
| 1:14.8 | becomes one of the subconscious byproducts of us being like everyone's attention |
| 1:18.6 | spans are shorter I'm like I don't know like I'll give me another one in New York back in the day there used to be 10 10 a.m. |
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