Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2023-10-14
Ryan Holiday & Arnold Schwarzenegger: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic (Oct 2023)
Arnold Schwarzenegger On Finding Ways To Be Useful
Ryan speaks with Arnold Schwarzenegger on how to be useful while we still have the time, the mental, physical and psychological benefits to nurturing the mind and body, keys moments during his bodybuilding career, running for governor and more..
Ryan Holiday discussed Be Useful by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Meditations by Aurelius Marcus.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Be Useful
Discussed“you talked in the book I thought it was interesting you're saying you see people in the gym and they're like I just want to get in shape and you say but sort of for what or how right”
Where to get it
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Meditations
Discussed“you and I were both struck by the fact that Markus the most powerful man on the world he's writing this private journal to himself and he opens it with all the things that other people did for him that he learned from them it's this”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (8) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Meditations
“when I wrote The Daily Stoke 8 years ago I had this crazy idea that I would just keep it going the book was 366 meditations”
Plugged The Daily Stoic
“When I wrote The Daily Stoic eight years ago, I had this crazy idea of continuing it after releasing 366 meditations, writing one more every single day and giving it away for free as an email.”
Plugged Be Useful
“In your book, you highlighted how many people enter the gym with the goal of getting in shape, but there’s often a lack of specificity around that. Still, I worked hard, and although it seems trivial now, that was my motivation, and it drove me to train every day.”
Plugged Be Useful
“my father's upbringing had a tremendous impact when he talked about be useful”
Plugged Be Useful
“That’s a key reason I wrote 'Be Useful': to inspire people to pursue success and achievement without a specific blueprint.”
Plugged Be Useful
“so this is why it's more fun when we have a goal and this is why I stress this in my book about have a vision have a clear goal like I had when I was 15 years old”
Plugged Be Useful
“because I remember for instance and I mentioned that also in my book that um I was in the middle of my bodybuilding career winning one M Olympia competition after the next and being known as the bodybuilder with the business brain”
Plugged Be Useful
“and I think this is one of the reasons also why I wrote this book be useful is to kind of inspire people that hey I know you don't want to maybe be another me”