98. The Disciplined Life: Ryan Holiday (NYT bestselling author of "Stillness is the Key", "The Daily Stoic," and many others)

09/25/22 • 28 min

In this episode, I talk to NYT bestselling author, Ryan Holiday (full bio below), about the disciplined life. His latest book, Discipline is Destiny, comes out September 27 (2022).
Topics:

The Three Types of Discipline
The Purpose of Discipline
Why should we have self-control?
Why to define a Primary Focus
How to structure skill-building around assignments
Practical habits for a disciplined day
What books have had an impact on Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday's advice for teenagers

When Ryan Holiday was 19 years old, he dropped out of college to apprentice under Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power. Mr. Holiday had a successful marketing career at American Apparel and went on to found a creative agency called Brass Check, which has advised clients like Google, TASER, and Complex, as well as many prominent bestselling authors, including Neil Strauss, Tony Robbins and Tim Ferriss. He is the author of ten books, including The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego Is the Enemy, The Daily Stoic, Conspiracy and Stillness is the Key which have sold more than 2 million copies in thirty languages and has a following among NFL coaches, world-class athletes, TV personalities, political leaders, and others around the world. Mr. Holiday spends much of his time on a ranch outside Austin, Texas where he does his writing and work in between raising cattle, donkeys, and goats.

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The Three Types of Discipline
The Purpose of Discipline
Why should we have self-control?
Why to define a Primary Focus
How to structure skill-building around assignments
Practical habits for a disciplined day
What books have had an impact on Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday's advice for teenagers

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97. "Hacking" the Legal System: Dr. Bruce Schneier (World-renowned Security Expert and Blogger)

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Ethical hacking is essential in the tech world as it exposes the holes and bugs in systems before bad people can use them. This same mindset can be applied to the legal system in order to “hack” it before "black hat" hackers exploit the problems. In this episode, Dr. Bruce Schneier (full bio below) explains this philosophy and the steps to apply it.
Topics:

What are public-interest technologists?
Hacking the legal system
Practical hacking
The Big Tech monopoly
Surveillance Capitalism
What can the next generation do?
What books have had an impact on Dr. Schneier
What advice Dr. Schneier has for teenagers

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books -- including Click Here to Kill Everybody -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter, Crypto-Gram, and blog, Schneier on Security, are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and AccessNow, and an advisory board member of EPIC and
VerifiedVoting.org. He is the Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Inc.
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99. Human Nature and How to Escape from "The Mindset": Dr. Douglas Rushkoff (Bestselling author of "Survival of the Richest," "Team Human," and many others)

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For centuries, we have been stuck in the matrix of "The Mindest," the need for ever-exponential, economic growth. Sucked into the "game" of capitalism, we have toiled for monetary benefits always searching to double, triple, and quadruple the GDP. But, beneath every socio-economic structure is the creator's perception of human nature. For us to understand the world and escape "The Mindset," we must know what human nature really is. These questions and many more are discussed in this interview with Dr. Douglas Rushkoff (full bio below). The basis of this interview, Dr. Rushkoff's latest book, Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires, was released on September 9th, 2022.
Topics:

What is "The Mindset?"
What is human nature and how does wealth change us?
The origins of "The Mindset"
The mythologies of America and their effect on our perspective
How to fight "The Mindset" and make the world a better place
Transitioning from an "exponential" economy to a "regenerative" economy
Promoting freedom in our products
What books have had an impact on Dr. Rushkoff?
What advice does Dr. Rushkoff have for teenagers?

Douglas Rushkoff is professor of media theory and digital economics at Queens/CUNY. Named one of the world's ten most influential intellectuals by MIT, he hosts the Team Human podcast and has written many award-winning books. He lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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