Metadata
- Author: Deep Dive with Ali Abdaal
- Full Title: You’re Not Lazy — How to Make Discipline Easy - Ryan Holiday
- URL: https://share.snipd.com/episode/8c7d8f13-2e64-4597-8c06-385c733defe3
Highlights
1min Snip (Time 0:50:25)
I think Seth Godin has a blog post about this that I remembered at the time, which was you can just reframe that to I get to do the thing. Sure. I was like, huh, I get to do this. I get to make this person’s morning sickness better so that, you know, her baby’s better and that she’s better because I was working on. And it was just like this huge wave of relief that came over me purely as a result of a simple mindset shift of like have to becomes get to. Well, also, I think one of the things I had that is like important things are hard, right? And so if you are good at something, if you have some sort of calling, you’re supposed like, like, I feel like each of us has kind of a unique potential, or we get sort of certain opportunities. And with those opportunities come a kind of an obligation. So like, when
Important things are hard Your skills and potential come with an obligation to use them
One of the stoics, his name was Musonius Rufus. He says: “When you do something shameful for pleasure, the pleasure passes quickly, but the shame endures. And then he says, but when you do something hard for good, the effort passes quickly, but the good endures.”
1min Snip (Time 1:02:25)
if you’re trying to absorb a philosophy or a new way of thinking or transform yourself from here to there, it’s not 300 pages that you read from October 1st to November 17th, that takes you a month and a half to read. It’s much better if you’re layering it like a page a day for a year.
Transformation is a process better performed slowly over time than through a binge
1min Snip (Time 1:10:11)
Other people’s success doesn’t negatively or positively affect you
1min Snip (Time 1:26:39)
To people who have never heard of you, you are new Don’t be afraid to repeat yourself
1min Snip (Time 1:36:16)
Most people don’t know you exist You are not the main character in this story Even to your fans, you are 500th on their priority list
1min Snip (Time 1:37:56)