
#128 Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
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The Cost of Saying Yes: Navigating Priorities
The speaker's whole day revolves around their creative work and if there's something scheduled in their calendar, everything else pivots around it. They highlight the cost of saying yes to things and prioritize not saying yes to unnecessary tasks. They believe that saying yes to something means saying no to something else. The speaker received a reminder from their performance coach, a picture of Oliver Sacks' office with a giant sign that says 'NO' as a reminder of the importance of saying no.
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