Why Reflection is a Super Power | Lt Colonel Mike Erwin
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🗓️ 6 March 2024
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Holiday is joined by Lt Colonel Mike Erwin. Together they discuss the central practice of journaling and reflection, how wisdom and discipline is a form of freedom, and although emotions make us human, it is critical for us to control them. They also discuss his two books Lead Yourself: Inspiring Leadership Through Solitude and Leadership is a Relationship: How to Put People First in the Digital World.
Lt Colonel Mike Erwin is a West Point graduate with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. He was commissioned as an Intelligence Officer and served three tours. Following his third deployment, Mike attended the University of Michigan, where he studied positive psychology and leadership.
Mike is the founder of a non-profit organization named Team Red, White & Blue (Team RWB). Team RWB’s mission is to enrich the lives of America’s veterans by connecting them to their communities through physical and social activity. He is also a Lt. Colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, assigned to the US Military Academy at West Point, where he serves as an Assistant Professor in Leadership & Psychology.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the daily stoic podcast where each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:09.8 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find |
| 0:17.2 | strength and insight here in everyday life, and on Wednesdays we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient |
| 0:25.0 | philosophy well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful. With them we |
| 0:30.3 | discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find |
| 0:36.3 | peace and wisdom in their actual lives. But first we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 0:58.7 | So back in February of, maybe the fall of 2019 I was invited to speak on a panel at the Naval Academy. |
| 1:10.4 | That was my sort of first exposure there. |
| 1:12.8 | Obviously, I heard about it. |
| 1:13.8 | I knew about it. |
| 1:14.6 | I knew Stockdale went there. |
| 1:16.5 | And they invited me out to this little panel. |
| 1:19.4 | And on that panel was a guy named Mike Irwin who had not gone to the Naval Academy. |
| 1:24.6 | In fact, he went to West Point, but thankfully they put their rivalries aside to put together |
| 1:28.8 | this little panel. |
| 1:31.5 | And I've heard of Mike's work he wrote this great book called |
| 1:34.0 | lead yourself first and he and I became friends we talked he did multiple tours of |
| 1:41.7 | Afghanistan he was a commissioned intelligence officer did multiple tours of Afghanistan. |
| 1:42.6 | He was a commissioned intelligence officer. |
| 1:45.7 | He is now the founder of this thing |
| 1:48.7 | called Team Red White and Blue, |
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