Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2023-12-20
Ryan Holiday & Ali Abdaal: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic (Dec 2023)
Ali Abdaal On Stoic Productivity Secrets And Overcoming Procrastination
Ryan Holiday discussed The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and others and Atomic Habits by James Clear. Ali Abdaal recommended The Designing Your Life Workbook by Bill Burnett and others and Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and others, and discussed The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss and In praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The 48 Laws of Power
Discussed“so I guess in the 48 Laws of Power the final law which I think a lot of people Miss is assume formlessness”
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Discussed“But then I miss that Thursday and think, Tim Ferriss says batching is good, so why don't I batch a whole week? I film 15 videos in that week, allowing me to chill for six weeks but then find that this week in Austin, I didn’t feel like filming anything at all.”
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In praise of idleness
Discussed“so I was rereading um Bertrand Russell's essay In Praise of idleness um where he's basically talking about how this you know this attitude that the modern world inculcates within us”
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Atomic Habits
Discussed“But first off, I like James; second, I think he's a great writer, and I think Atomic Habits is actually a very good book. And third, I don't know how many I'm counting now, but whatever—there's no universe in which that book selling more or less copies affects my life in any negative or positive way.”
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The Designing Your Life Workbook
Recommended“the most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is uh something called The Odyssey plan from the book designing your life by Bill Bernett is”
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Designing Your Life
Recommended“The most helpful exercise I've ever found for this is something called The Odyssey Plan from the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and another guy who are Stanford professors. Basically, the idea is that you imagine your life three to five years in the future if you continued down your current path, and you write out what that”
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Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Show Your Work!
“I was saying to you in that interview that, hey Ryan, you know I've just started writing my first book, any tips? You gave some really good advice.”
Plugged The Obstacle Is the Way
“Well, you asked me about self-publishing earlier; I experienced this unintentionally and intentionally when The Obstacle is the Way came out. Uh, I’d already sold the sequel and so in one respect that probably cost me a lot of money because The Obstacle is the Way did, over the next year or two, start to do really well.”
Plugged Ego Is the Enemy
“So if I’d waited, I probably could have sold what became Ego is the Enemy for a lot more money; a lot more money. But I was... But I’d actually sold like a proposal version of it while I was still figuring the book out.”
Plugged Discipline Is Destiny
“So again the downside is, uh, Courage came out, it did okay, Discipline came out, it did spectacular. So maybe I could have been selling Justice for more, but um all of that was irrelevant because I was just in the middle of writing the book.”
Plugged Courage Is Calling
“So again the downside is, uh, Courage came out, it did okay, Discipline came out, it did spectacular. So maybe I could have been selling Justice for more, but um all of that was irrelevant because I was just in the middle of writing the book.”
Plugged The Boy Who Would Be King
“So maybe I could have been selling Justice for more, but um all of that was irrelevant because I was just in the middle of writing the book.”