Stoicism's Lessons For A Disciplined Life - Ryan Holiday - #541

Modern Wisdom

10/20/22

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97m

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Ryan Holiday is a podcaster, marketer and an author.

Discipline is one of the modern world's hot topics. Because it's become apparent that in order to achieve anything, you must be able to temper your desires and direct your efforts. The Stoics believed this 2000 years ago and between then and now there's been a plethora of historical examples which can teach us how to build and sustain discipline.

Expect to learn why sanity is your most precious resource, why discipline without an end goal is pointless, how to stay disciplined when success arrives, why Martin Luther King let a Nazi punch him in the face, how to enforce discipline without lambasting yourself for falling short, what Eisenhower's smoking habit can teach us about self control, why 75 hard might not build discipline long term and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:28) The Power of Sanity & Consistency (09:53) Direction Helps Discipline (14:28) Maintaining Discipline at the Top (27:15) Lessons from Marcus Aurelius (38:08) How Principles Can Aid Focus (44:30) The Downside of High Standards (53:37) The Tragedies of Lou Gehrig & Babe Ruth (58:19) Can You Achieve Extreme Results in a Balanced Life? (1:08:02) What Ryan Learned from Queen Elizabeth II (1:15:13) The Virtue of Persevering Through Trials (1:27:08) Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Smoking Habit (1:31:59) Cautionary Tales from History (1:37:13) Where to Find Ryan

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Destiny is a streamer and a YouTuber.

As the mainstream media abandons talking to anyone male in a reasonable manner, men's advice has been pushed underground. It's good to have someone helping men to become better people, friends and partners for women, but what are the errors in this new wave of advice?

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October 22, 2022

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Randy Nesse is a physician, author and founder of the field of evolutionary medicine and evolutionary psychiatry.

Evolution created an odd creature in humans. We're able to fly to the moon and cure diseases. But we also get anxious in the supermarket or depressed if we have a bad week. Why would mother nature make us so fragile? If natural selection is powerful why are mental disorders so common?

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The Secret Tools To Hack Your Brain - Dr Andrew Huberman - #700: ⁠⁠⁠lnkfi.re/SN-Huberman⁠⁠

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