BONUS | Ryan Holiday’s Office Tour: Books, Stoic Artifacts, and Daily Rituals
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. I'm Ryan Holiday. I'm an author. I have a bookstore here outside Austin, Texas. And I'm going to take you through my office today and show you a couple of things that I think explain how I work, how I think about what I do, and how I think about life.
The most important reminder I have on my wall sits between two pictures of my kids. Here and here. I don't show their faces. But that's Dr. Oliver Sachs and behind him is a sign in his office that just said no.
This was given to me by the sports psychologist Dr. Jonathan Fader. You develop a career by saying yes to everything, but you can only keep a career by getting good at saying no to things. And he told me that that that there's something similar in baseball.
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