Modern Wisdom

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

Oct 20, 2022

01:40:58

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The Paradox of High Standards and Self-Discipline

02:39

Maintaining Success and Discipline in a Competitive Environment

01:29

Finding Firm Ground through Adversity

03:01

Delegate, Systematize, and Focus on the Essential

01:44

Introduction

5min

Is This Person Fucking Nuts or Not?

2min

The Biggest Enemy in Ambition

2min

Don't Fuck It Up

2min

The Line Between Your Future Destiny and Your Current Discipline

2min

The Foundation Is Being Eroded From Underside You

3min

What Is Discipline?

3min

Is It Easier to Be Disciplined Before Success Arrives?

2min

Is It a Second Marathon?

4min

10.

The Challenge of Outsourcing Tasks

5min

11.

The Puritan Work Ethic

3min

12.

Are You the Only One That Can Do It?

5min

13.

Is Commodus the Greatest Emperor?

2min

14.

Are You Trying to Future-Protect a Tyrant?

3min

15.

Is It Just a Blip in What Would Have Been a Pure White Snow Surface of Marcus Aurelius?

3min

16.

The Life Cycle of Discipline

4min

17.

The Choice of Hercules

2min

18.

Are You Disciplined?

3min

19.

Are You Doing What You Should Be Doing?

3min

20.

I Want to Be Fast Now or Do You Want to Be Fast Later?

3min

21.

Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth's Careers Are Cut Short

3min

22.

I Just Didn't Work, but I'm a Human Being.

6min

23.

What Are the Ordinating Principles That I'm Doing?

3min

24.

Is There a Difference Between Happiness and Success?

3min

25.

Are You in Control of Yourself?

4min

26.

Didn't Martin Luther King Get Punched by a Nazi?

4min

27.

It's Fucking Hard and It Breaks Your Heart

4min

28.

The Obstacles Away

3min

29.

The Inner Citadel

3min

30.

The Inner Citadel

2min

31.

Are You in Charge or Is the Need in Charge?

2min

32.

Are You Fucking Tired?

2min

33.

Do You Want More Success?

4min

34.

The Forgotten Highlander, Alistair Urkhart

4min

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...

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