Tim Ferriss on Making Better Decisions and Solving Problems (Pt 1)
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
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🗓️ 20 January 2024
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with author and early-stage technology investor/advisor Tim Ferriss on the essence of Stoicism, fear setting, and exaggerating the downside of things. How stoicism helped Tim manage the catastrophe of success and criticism and his podcast Tim Ferriss Show, which is the first business/interview podcast to exceed 100 million downloads. It has now exceeded 900 million downloads.
Tim Ferriss has been listed as one of Fast Company’s “Most Innovative Business People” and one of Fortune’s “40 under 40." He is also the author of five #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, including The 4-Hour Workweek and Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:08.4 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, |
| 0:15.7 | justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:18.3 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at |
| 0:26.8 | length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:35.7 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be |
| 0:41.0 | sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly |
| 0:47.3 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:56.0 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:58.0 | Welcome to another episode of The Daily Still podcast. |
| 1:01.0 | It's pretty unreal to me. |
| 1:04.3 | 15 years ago, I was in this town, Austin, Texas. |
| 1:09.9 | I was just a college sophomore trying to make my way as a research assistant |
| 1:16.7 | aspiring writer person and I was here at South by Southwest one of the first |
| 1:22.4 | events conferences I ever been to in my life, and I met this guy. |
| 1:27.0 | And he was an entrepreneur, he was thinking about doing a book, he was presenting later that day or the next day, and he invited us to come and I went I saw him get up |
| 1:36.1 | there and give an incredible presentation I just thought this dude is going to be huge and he did go on to be huge one of the best selling |
| 1:45.7 | authors of the last 15 years one of the great investors of that period also and a |
| 1:52.4 | guy who's been my friend throughout all of that |
| 1:55.0 | a guy who's been my friend throughout all of that, a mentor advisor, teacher, and just all around great dude. |
| 2:00.0 | I'm talking about Tim Ferris, who I have known or has known me since I was, like I said, in college. |
| 2:07.3 | So this is really cool for me. I had Tim on the podcast back during the pandemic. |
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