Tim Ferriss On Solving Problems With People And Using Stoicism To Make Better Decisions

[@jacemarteez]

Anytime these two sit across from each other. You know you’re in for a treat.

[@RanjakarPatel]

I make four this man oursource. I look four all remove dirty four the email e male postings. He call four me his son. He pay four me four rupees four every day. But I was proud four be his son.

[@RashakantBhattachana]

@@RanjakarPatel हां भाई। सप्ताह में चार घंटे का कार्य पढ़ने के बाद मैंने उसे लिखा। उन्होंने कहा, "लेकिन आपको इसे अर्जित करना होगा।" इसके बाद चार रुपये प्रति दिन के लिए "चौदह घंटे का कार्य दिवस" ​​​​किया गया। लेकिन मैंने उनके ईमेल का जवाब देने के हर मिनट का आनंद लिया। वह मेरे लिए पिता समान थे।

[@hassanhijazi7257]

@@RashakantBhattachana sorry bro.

[@mariolongtin8271]

How? Tim is a fraud.

[@RealziesCuts]

497 days no alcohol 🥇 More blessed and grateful than ever before 💫 🏆

[@aibochan1764]

Tim is the grand daddy GOAT of modern stoicism (and many other things), glad to see you guys together.

[@garyc7291]

This is incredible. Two of my all-time favorite thinkers and communicators. Pure gold.

[@jjjccc728]

I am not even 1 hour into this and so far it's gold. These guys are so articulate and self-aware. I am a big fan of stoicism as well so this is catnip for me.

[@tekmouse]

Love the comparison of a business idea to a hypothesis; they’re essentially the same thing.

[@Terri_2.0]

"Fluffing your passion" is one of the best phrases I've heard in a long time 😅👍

[@RyanSaplanPT]

I got a good chuckle on that too 😂

[@JoylieC]

This is a wonderful interview. Such great advice! Thank you! ❤🎉

[@JezelJordan]

Wonderful, two of my favorite people discussing one of my favorite topics!

[@brianbachmeier34]

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” - Epictetus

[@duanemilne8049]

42:10 - thanks to Ryan for sharing what his wife calls the key skill in life: the ability to deal with frustration / emotional regulation

[@StoicLegend_Official]

"Control your mind, for it is in our minds that happiness and suffering originate." - Seneca

[@connorstar164]

Why would I take advice from someone who… 1.) Didn’t believe in a connection of a higher power whether deity or God. Since that limits your thoughts, chores and connection of being an open spirit? 2.) Didn’t have a strong mind, he put himself down more times than the opposite and was introverted, seeking isolation when we are extroverts by nature, like ants, we work together by working together, like wolves, wild dogs and lions we have power in cooperativeness not singly. 3.) Committed suicide, this shows the importance of the first two even more greatly, cutting your self off from God, or deities you already object that you know better than them, so he wasn’t obedient he was rebellious to outside help from higher powers, and he also was rejecting human help, as if he knows more than others, when you’re just a man, limited, how can any human build a society or community if they are only inclusive about everything? He commited suicide because he wasn’t even confident in anything, not even himself, why would I commit suicide when I know others need my help, or why would I commit suicide just because someone else asks me to, Nero told him to off himself, and he did, he bowed out to both himself and another’s opinion. This is why I have little to almost no interest in stoics, these are modern day athiest, who think they can solve all the worlds problems but their own. Seneca speaks that a man needs and must have adversity, yet the moment he faces it he cowars from it. Prophet Daniel faced the same situation of a tyrant that Seneca did with Nero, yet Daniel was more confident in God Yahweh, than he was more than himself and the tyrant Nebacannezzer, when the king told to kill him, Daniel never wavered and followed the words of God, from thrown in a fiery furnace, to fed to the lions, Daniel was neither over boastful of himself, like Seneca was when he states throw me to the wolves and I’ll come back leading the pack, nor was he disconnected or rebelled against God, so he remained connected, unlike Seneca who said even Zeus cannot take my free will, where did that lead him? To killing himself because he had no connection to God, even Epictetus raged against Zeus, yet he looked passed a tyrant barabric deity bitch God, and broaden that there was a source far larger and stronger than Zeus, a actual God, he states if God created us, God would not want to harm his creation, but subside with it. Stoics have nothing to offer, this is why I stick to Christianity, learn from our Muslim brethren’s, grab from Buddhism and Hindusim, and practice gratification and knowing that our fellowship needs us and our Gods need us. No time for fools and the stoics were the biggest of fools, both ancient athiest and modern athiest have one thing in common, they think they can govern everything they’re way and not based on the higher powers, and secondly, based on peer review research, like pew, national institute of health and world health org, athiest commit suicide more than all religions combined. Good luck with that. I’ll stick to my religions, prophets, gurus and true wise men.

[@Vingriss_]

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[@StoicLegend_Official]

Thank you for giving me meaningful lessons@@connorstar164

[@StoicLegend_Official]

Thank you!@@halcyon2864

[@amandashineyourlight2498]

Good day Daily Stoic, This is my first intro to the Stoic conversation. I took notes and just want to say I really gained value from this. I hope to read Marcus Aurelius's journal soon. So thank you.

[@tammy6452]

The video I needed today. 🎉 I could say that of most of these two talking, though.

[@corinaspfx]

i've listened to an ungodly number of podcast hours - this was the best opening line ever! 🤣

[@ZHobbs]

Thank you for the podcast, but even more of a thank you for the video with it! makes such a difference

[@tony121083]

Tim should be more ‘mainstream’. Something like Rogan episode with these two would widespread the valuable message they bring to the world. (I know Ryan did Rogan already- it was great)

[@carolspencer6915]

Good morning Daily Stoic and Tim Truly grateful for this shared sensemaking. Super relatable. Sanity brain gym, in a timely fashion. Thankyou. 💜

[@StoicEvolution1]

"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." - Marcus Aurelius

[@RobinTurner]

Great dialogue - thank you! On the issue of control that came up, while it's true that Marcus Aurelius had more things in his control than did Epictetus in the normal sense of the word, I think from a strictly Stoic point of view there was no difference. In classical Stoicism, whether you're an emperor or a slave, none of your actions are in your control, only your judgements and decisions are. Personally I don't like that extreme dualism, but it's pretty standard in Stocisim - things are either completely in your control or out of your control, things are either internal or external, good/bad or indifferent (adiaphora) etc.

[@phiaman]

So hard for me to wrap my head around focusing so much on making money. I have proper respect for both of these guys. But the whole money thing is so tough for me

[@wernerhabel]

please, why does this not show up on the KZbin podcast feed? Many thanks for fixing!

[@RobinTurner]

"I can't turn off editing" - LOL. After thirty years of teaching English and proofreading academic papers, I have exactly that problem! A friend asked me t proofread a translation of his work, and I'm pretty much re-translating the whole thing.

[@PatrykAI]

These gentlemen never disappoint

[@justinhenriksen]

"Some macadamia nuts and a cold shower". Classic. 😆 This was a great conversation. Thanks for having it, gents.

[@Ashiq.Ibrahim]

“Are those mints or nicotine?”- this had me rolling

[@carolspencer6915]

Hello again Having paid attention to all this shared conversation. Need to say trying not to reach out for help BUT, do believe a fire in ma belly is not anxiety (long story, short!) Think excitement, once and for a long time thought this was fear (it still is, fear) BUT more in a good way calling this excitement, super helpful indeed. Needing a new professional road mapping partner, me thinks. Terrifying, exciting! Difficult to find help. Truly grateful for this. 💜

[@AndressaYamakawa]

Wonderful! Love both! ❤

[@marcogalloro]

Life-changing philosophy!📈

[@yadwinderdeol924]

My takeaway is to start the no complaints challenge

[@likesgood]

This is awesome dudes. impactful and matters. thanks both.

[@phaqthan779]

Excellent

[@SS-rd6re]

Thank you for your efforts!

[@nomadraj9863]

hey tim i really love ur content and u also i am raj ♥from andaman and nicobar islands 🏝

[@alisoncross2399]

At 1.35 (ish) Isn't there a Recording Angel that walks with us through life, making notes of all we say and do? Not sure whether that's a Judaic or Christian principle. Just went to check, it's called the kiraman katibin :)

[@codenoob]

Can someone tell me where I can find the intro song. Its so good

[@BillyWhaler]

Hope your bookstore reconsiders carrying Scott Adams. You don’t need to like the messenger. But is there anyone who comes close to his insight in his niche? Scott’s had a very positive impact on many people with his practical, control the controllable advice.

[@ana.jensie]

amazing

[@phaqthan779]

Awesome

[@marcschelz]

timestamps would be really helpful :)

[@Gumbo_Calm]

Timestamps plz 🙏

[@chasingpurpose]

no time stamps?

[@TheYogaHubDublin]

Why don't you timestamp?

[@__-tz6xx]

1:33:42 I often times have to catch myself for labeling others as "basic" but I think I should just do what Ryan says and think as if they don't have free will but I do and I need to choose better. Robert Sapolsky says free will is a delusion because of all that has came before, largely biological.

[@spatyo]

Ryan, you gotta get off the caffeine pills. Saying this with love, been there.

[@jamesbaker9342]

Timestamps is a well known stoic principle I’ve heard 😳

[@sarawilde7493]

❤

[@DJSTOEK]

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[@mississippiapple1078]

I always if and when Tim gets married with children how else he'll change

[@HMuny55]

Odd observation, Tim has great skin

[@ChaNayNayAnime]

I realize Ryan holiday treats stoicism like a religion

[@connorstar164]

Yet it can’t be, never has been and never will be. Why? Because religions serve Gods, all stoics and Roman’s eventually rebelled against their deities. Most were agnostic like Marcus states so, others went full blown athiest like Seneca. A religion, serves the writings or hearing or connection with of Gods. Europe has only taken apart of Christianity, Europe has no foundational religion they stuck with. India and China have Hindusim and Buddhism. Middle East and North Africa has Christianity and Islam. No one in the world by even greater than 1 million people practice stoicism, even Jews and Judaism has only 50 million. Europe has no real spirituality other than attaching themselves to Christianity.

[@Ashiq.Ibrahim]

That might be true (I think it is too), but I’m sure he faced such comments before lol. And since he practices stoicism so frequently.. He won’t let such comments get to him haha (I’m assuming such comments are written to offend him or something like that) because.. “You don’t’ focus on what you can’t control.” In this case, what other people think of him.

[@ChaNayNayAnime]

@@Ashiq.Ibrahim no offense, but maybe you should apply that to yourself. my comment was actually written from a place of "simple observation" not to offend- i imagine others as well. but i do acknowledge that what someone sees as offensive is subjective, depending on their level of resilience and/or ego. sometimes you can't land your words soft enough. someone will always be offended. i think there are many things people will be "Faced" with, but a 9 letter comment should hardly touch your toes.

[@JoeFromSomewhere2303]

​@ChaNayNayAnime of course it's offensive. Religions are illogical and unreasonable. Stoicism is based in reality and is functional.

[@sevensages5279]

4:08 most don't have the $200k to invest, so they take the $200k school loan!

[@marksoberay2318]

1972? Um we landed on moon in 69 and did orbits several years before

[@mariolongtin8271]

It's hard to respect Tim, what he did to his fans in web3 - outright fraud - and how he loves to over exaggerate everything and he's horrible for spreading misinformation such as healrh and fitness, the list goes on. As a stoic, when you see fraud and don't say fraud, you are a fraud. Stay real Ryan, please!

[@Great_PatBingsoo]

A lot of words were spoken, but few were worth hearing here. Just my honest take.

[@kaine3805]

That backdground is near insufferable

[@healthymealthy775]

Tim is such a clown 🤡