Stop Tweeting, Scrolling and Feeding Your Ego | Ryan Holiday's Stoic Advice to USC Football Team

The South Carolina Gamecocks football team asked Ryan Holiday to come speak to the team about ego and how to avoid it. He discusses stoicism, ego, Marcus Aurelius, and much more.
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[@DailyStoic]

What are ways you've found to keep your ego in check?

[@monocyte2210]

I am an academic and a marine scientist. People in academia have usuallu big fat egos. I find it humbling when i go out snorkeling and diving in coral reefs and seagrass beds. When I also work with small scale fishermen in the tropics that are below the poverty line. I always try to empathize and feel their pain and try to live like them even for just a few days.

[@abinashdutta2109]

I try to learn hard things and solve tough problems, this always keeps me like......down to earth

[@YourHealthTV]

Praise God for whatever good that happens to me.

[@muscledog666]

Remembering that my ego is just a story other people tell me

[@tasospanagiotou7823]

Doing good deeds without expecting anything in return.

[@adventuralist]

this is literally the first video that popped up after opening youtube lmfao it said "the last video you should watch today" and you know what I'll accept the challenge

[@DailyStoic15]

Ordered Obstacle is the Way .. stoic since 5th Oct 2019 .. my mentor: Ryan Holiday and his books !!

[@ivaibhavsharmaa]

I am currently reading "Ego is the enemy", this book is so dense that it'll take me atleast two thorough reads to digest it, definitely one of the books i will frequently reference back in times of adversity! Love from India❤️

[@kyussvegas]

vaibhav Sharma I just finished reading it a second time - it's a book I expect to reread once every few years. Glad you're seeing the same thing.

[@punchandtell]

Thanks for recommending

[@johnroman4608]

Vanity is futile & no ones opinion matters. Glad I don’t care about social media or so much about what goes on around me. Great video Ryan 👌🏻

[@monocyte2210]

Ryan i read ego two years ago. Just got a copy of the obstacle is the way. Im already halfway through the book. Thank you for writing these madterpieces

[@Arunhavale]

Thanks Ryan...

[@bowmanvmi]

More videos with Buddy! ♥️

[@ademardemmajr]

Ryan, I am from São Paulo and would love to find your book “Obstacle is the Way” in portuguese (O Obstáculo é o Caminho). It run out of every book store. By the way I love the book Ego is the Enemy. Thanks for all. I am your big fan.

[@ianpatrick23]

Absolutely love this message

[@awofadeju1]

Ryan, you said how we should get off of social media as much as much possible. I know that Daily Stoic has a Facebook group called Daily Stoic Life for members. I'm not in the group and not considering it at this time in my journey with Stoicism, but I'm a member of other Facebook groups. Do you think it is a good use of social media to either join groups of people who have a common interest as you do or follow people who inspire, motivate, or share wisdom?

[@LauraBellanova]

Thanks Ryan 🙏

[@PiCheZvara]

I watched a movie today - Solaris. From 2002. It reminded me of that year and me in it where social media didn't exist and we were only beginning to use cell phones on the regular. Where you didn't have 2000 opinions of strangers on any given topic readily available while also massaging your ego with posts on social media, upvotes, etc. It seems more healthy to me, I'm thinking about trying to ditch this activity completely beyond practical information I could use...but I already feel almost anxious, scared, like withdrawal, like man I'm not going to be able to do this. And I'm not an overuser. That's not a reaction I want to have.

[@raymondtendau2749]

I think social media is not the problem.I see social media as a tool.For example like a knife in the kitchen is a productive tool but the same knife in the wrong hands at the wrong time is now a weapon.So conclusively th problem is not social media but rather humans.We use it wrongly/badly.social media can be productive(even though i quit years now)...it can be good for advertisement for example...but at the same time too much sugar or honey can kill you.its all about Balance.My humble opinion.Respect Ryan.

[@BFrydell]

When we look up at the sky, we feel very small. But we also feel connected to something larger than ourselves. This is my donkey. His name is Buddy.

[@HovringenelpRousseau]

Such exquisite productions! I wish all of humanity would enjoy those satisfying philosophical sushi pieces. Arigatou gozaimashita/

[@raymondtendau2749]

If you think you are big,you become small.If you know you are nothing,you become unlimited. -Sadhguru

[@upscalelures]

Good stuff!

[@lifeisbeautiful1562]

Wow.

[@nev357]

Over thinking paralised my abibilty to action. When I take action, I do not dwell on thinking.

[@loganc4233]

Everybody quiet ... Buddy is trying to tell us how to be still ... keep listening!

[@soaringvlogs]

Everyone is saying about you. Step away. Equal centered to everyone in the world look up to the sky ur connected to something greater. You can leave life right now, let that determine what you do say and think

[@akram591]

Song?

[@raymondtendau2749]

You dont need to see and hear everything.

[@ginggingjunio5107]

Why are there are thought or something evil in my mind sometimes? Is that the ego?or the evil one?something full of revenge and hatred .thanks

[@DavidScepanovic96]

It's fear

[@AbdulSamad-dz4vw]

It's resentment.. Watch Jordan Peterson he explains it perfectly!

[@AbdulSamad-dz4vw]

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[@masterc9706]

Wooh texas

[@graydonpanzica330]

I think we need a coin with Buddy on it to remind us not to beat ourselves up.

[@zarrayaya]

💓

[@DJSTOEK]

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