Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-10-21
Ryan Holiday & Chase Jarvis: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic
The Uncomfortable Truth About Success | Chase Jarvis
Ryan Holiday recommended The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz, and discussed Meditations by Aurelius Marcus and Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Recommended“Ben horz great book the hard thing about hard things one of the best entrepreneur books all time first chapter is like how to fire your friends”
Where to get it
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Meditations
Discussed“the other side of momentto Mory like the part where Markus talks about it specifically in meditations which I've always been struck by and it struck me before I had kids and a lot more after he he says that you know try to do this as you're tucking your kids in at night”
Where to get it
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Flow
Discussed“and there's the one of the original authors of the concept of flow isi chick set me high I don't know his name I just know what it looks like and read the book”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (3) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Never Play It Safe
“and in the beginning of never play it safe I say look we're not talking about seat belts and sunscreen”
Plugged Trust Me, I'm Lying
“trust me, I'm lying well I I was like if this book doesn't come out like right now it's going to be like irrelevant I was like this is like of the moment I should have in retrospect”
Plugged Never Play It Safe
“I'm telling you man, I hate to be that dude talking about his book, but there’s a whole chapter about that—it’s the constraints chapter.”