How to Use Stillness to Achieve Greatness | Ryan Holiday on Conversations with Tom
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Welcome to the third episode of Conversations with Tom, with guest Ryan Holiday. This episode again shows an unfiltered, unedited, free-wheeling conversation between two thinkers who discuss their grandest dreams, their deepest fears, and their own sometimes self-contradictory beliefs. Listen as Tom Bilyeu and Ryan Holiday riff on everything from a broken piece of an old tombstone to the Cuban Missile Crisis, and discuss ideas ranging from stoicism to profit maximization. Nothing is off-limits on Conversations with Tom, so enjoy the intellectual ride!
SHOW NOTES:
Tom is concerned that he is violating the rule to only do one thing [1:23]
Tom and Ryan discuss going where the heart goes but also making a profit [4:13]
Tom and Ryan talk about Lance Armstrong and following your own principles [6:59]
“Do people I respect really get a lot out of the book?” [9:59]
What is the relationship between stillness and obsession? [11:12]
Ryan talks about the dangers of survivorship bias and only looking at who succeeds [15:11]
Tom riffs on the need to access dark side emotional energy [18:10]
Ryan talks about death [26:47]
Tom talks about potential immortality [32:26]
Ryan discusses the relationship between accepting death and accomplishing greatness [35:04]
Different situations call for solutions [39:05]
Ryan attempts to define perspective [41:58]
Tom talks about changing your brain chemistry to change what drives you [45:25]
“You can’t teach YOUR old dog new tricks.” [48:44]
Ryan and Tom discuss how to create momentum [50:22]
Ryan and Tom discuss how to reach your real potential [53:20]
How malleable are people? [59:29]
Nobody expected Tom to succeed [1:02:02]
Tom describes his fear that people turn off empowering messages if they smell BS [1:04:29]
Tom and Ryan ask how to balance big goals and personal relationships [1:08:29]
What is stillness and why does it matter? [1:17:46]
Ryan illustrates stillness with the story of the Cuban missile crisis [1:21:52]
Ryan explains how to cultivate stillness [1:31:23]
Ryan and Tom discuss going to therapy [1:34:00]
Tom talks about what he wishes he had gotten as a kid [1:37:56]
Tom talks about people he loves that seem absolutely stuck [1:43:38]
Progress depends on the irrational man [1:46:29]
Ryan discusses what he hopes people get from his book [1:50:02]
Tom asks how to step outside the limits of accepted beliefs [1:54:16]
Ryan discusses the connections between stillness, enlightenment and fulfillment [1:58:01]
Ryan and Tom discuss the dangers of new tech and social media [2:01:26]
Tom talks about his history with drugs and alcohol [2:06:00]
Ryan and Tom discuss meditation [2:09:08]
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Tom said that he actually wanted to change peoples lives and he has changed mine. I listen to one of his podcasts almost every day and I’m inspired in some way! Keep it up Tom! I love your vulnerability and energy!!!
This is the most intelligent show on KZread. Thank you so much, Tom, for having these discussions!
I LOVE this conversation. Freedom in willingness to fail. Knowing we die allows us to really live.
@Koryogden
3 жыл бұрын
Check out Tom's interview with Chuck Pahalniuk.. he gets into this superbly
I totally bought almost ALL Ryan Holiday's books this Spring with the stimulus check! I respect Ryan Holiday in every way he represents. BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!! 1Million %.
This book was truly transformative. Thank you Ryan for writing it. This discussion format has also been so helpful. I am buying copies for my sons.
I absolutely flipping love this format, the back and forth and everything that comes out as a result of these interactions. Love it..
@harmeetsokhi
4 жыл бұрын
It is free flowing
@businessonline2116
3 жыл бұрын
It’s a mutual respect of opinions and ideas thru experiences. Thumbs up!
@deejackson6690
2 жыл бұрын
Agreed!! Good stuff.....
Loved this interview. Something new that is helping me is to imagine that all of time exists at once, yet time is linear at the same time. This is helping me see just how important yet insignificant everything is at the same time and is helping me to value each moment.
Confirmation for what I have known to be true! Tom you are the best and your guests are so powerful!!!
As always these talks are amazing, yet so powerful that I must watch and listen several times to burn these golden nuggets of information into my mind!
Tom, Please produce more of the long form videos, unedited. i have been a follower of your content for more than one year and have recently tapped into your long, unedited form of videos. These are amazing becasue they give me the details that i need to understand the exact message you and the guests trying to deliver. thanks a lot Tom for your amazing contents!
@bradleyburdett5361
4 жыл бұрын
I would just like to add that Tom started helping me with his videos 18 years ago. Helping me get over my problem with constantly lying was a big help when I was a Navy Seal. Sorry Im in a odd comedy mood.
This conversation is so incredibly transforming, touches on all topics that 2 friends in conversation would touch upon. Such brilliant format, wonderful topics discussed and you two brilliant minds just seem to illuminate the way to a new way of thinking❣️
@deejackson6690
2 жыл бұрын
Great descriptive word. Transforming. I agree with that as well!
My two favorite contemporary thinkers and impact theorists!! I'm very happy to have discovered Ryan Holiday and Tom Bilyeu. I honestly didn't think there were people our age (our generation, I'm 41) that were into these topics that I always found fascinating since a child. Keep up the good work and hope the next generation absorbs some of this wisdom because there's a lot of unenlightening content out there.
@AA-dz5fc
2 жыл бұрын
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@AA-dz5fc
2 жыл бұрын
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YESSS! We need more content around this topic - too many people these days are suffering from anxiety caused by overthinking. I’ve even just started a channel to help people overcome social anxiety incorporating concepts of personal development and spirituality!
@beedebawng2556
3 жыл бұрын
Overthinking is a product of anxiety - not the reverse.
@HB-he2eh
Жыл бұрын
Yes!!!!!!! ❤
@HB-he2eh
Жыл бұрын
@Beede Bawng what came first the chicken or the egg? I think they feed into eachother. Sometimes I get a feeling in my chest, and then look for something wrong, other times my thinking spins out of control and leads to anxiety and depression.. it's like the anger mentioned, how do you stop the anger and pull back to prevent from spiraling?
Genius, I've been listening to his motivational things for years, I didn't realize he learned about philosophy and everything. This is the best elevated conversation I've ever seen, beats any TEDtalk. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EXPRESSING MY EXACT THOUGHTS & for expressing them with the SAME URGENCY & FRUSTRATION that I’m feeling regarding people I love so much, who are stuck & can’t seem to move past patterns that keep them disempowered, and continue to just add more pain to their lives and those around them. My youngest sister struggles so much with PTSD from significant early childhood loss and multiple traumas. She has lived with us off & on since she was 11. It has been absolutely hellacious and exhausting at times! Right now is another one of those times and it seems there’s no place to set down the load for even a little awhile & catch our breaths & get a break. We have a 14-year-old daughter so the dynamics feel almost unbearable sometimes. Videos & new insight like this help fuel my own continued growth & development, and literally help me keep going!!
1:34:45 "Think about that thing that makes you really angry, or that thing that makes you really sad, or that thing that really makes you feel like a piece of shit. How old is that feeling--not how old is it in your life, but like what age would you ascribe to that feeling ..." ... What a mental/psychological jewel! This can literally help you grow out of your childhood and earlier insecurities that absolutely have no standing in your current life--and can sometimes be even completely the opposite to what you should actually be feeling. What an eloquent and simple way of delivering such a powerful introspective tip!
*Contrary to popular belief, ideas come from stillness.* Creativity is born in peace, not in chaos. The mind has to be empty for something new and interesting to enter.
@christopherrodway5070
4 жыл бұрын
O'SSÉIN - Master Your Mind With Me I agree!
Tom, I've just recently stumbled upon your channel and you've definitely just become my personal #1 mentor and aspiration in life. I love Ryan's perspective on death and seeing ourselves as constantly slowly dying instead of having the concept of death as a single moment in the distant future, that really makes you appreciate life in a different way.
@keepcreationprocess
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, such a brilliant concept ,we are dying
Wow, Ryan is a great interviewer. I learned so much about Tom.
@NatAnnSch
4 жыл бұрын
He's exhausting. The opposite of stillness. Also, if he used the F-bomb less often (instead of every other word) it would have way more impact. The way Sam Harris uses it, sparingly. For me, he comes across as unpolished and uneducated.
@rioguttaful
4 жыл бұрын
Ctfu 🤭😂🤣😭💯😌
@sayerslayer1854
3 жыл бұрын
the title says its a conversation, not an interview.
Respect! This is the best example of having a productive convo and respecting differences. Peace! conversation
F*cking hell guys, absolutely blown me away this morning!!! So much to take away from this. I need to watch this again and definitely going to buy the book(s).
Live everyday as a complete day! Love it, and Tom's idea that today is a practice run to relieve the stress. Cool!
Among all the 'motivation-related' cocktail I've listened to so far that is close to my experience, it is this 'negative energy' (anger, proving something with vengefulness, defeat/dominate someone over something I've decided to) that pushes me to great heights and achieve me great things. Its really unpleasant and i dont like it coz it breeds/projects to further similar energy and thus a vicious cycle and misery. Im frustrated to myself on this, but it works for me so far on this aspect. Im trying to learn and synthesize to transform this is to a more 'positive' energy. What I was able to come up with is to grow over these past frustrations and move forward to a more altruistic visions that I could align my revamped objectives. I confess that Im a Christian, but with this nature in me, it really saddens me, and I always pray for God's guidance and wisdom to work over me in this struggle and journey.
I agree that being in a family or in relationships enriches your insights into life. Ideally, you and your partner can provide one another with some free time each day when you can concentrate on your work uninterrupted. That would be a practical thing to do. Also remember that the time when kids are small and need lots of attention is a few years. Then they go off to school and you get more uninterrupted time. You may write more interesting books as a result of the rich complexity of family life.
I love the new focus. Refreshing to experience the riffing conversation.
You have to go where the heart goes, follow your purpose and have conviction, believing in what you do. When you are at PEACE with yourself, when you learn how to cultivate STILLNESS, everything in life is easier...
I just loved this video!! I felt like I was a fly on the wall while two great people have a long conversation. That was awesome!
Great conversation. Was nice to hear a discussion with varying perspectives it gave me loads to think about. I think this format and the original impact theory both are valuable and needed. Thanks for the great sunday morning listening x
Rawlicious. I have been doing unedited unscripted for some years and love it more every day. So happy to see you guys in this format.
Tom You are AMAZINGLY INFLUENTIAL every story every word of truth!
You can become the great by doing your work with greatness. Try to create great habits what great people have. Greatness is driven by your thinking. Think like a great person to become the great.
"Time is a tool, not a couch" "Tomorrow is a blessing" "Get some reps in before you write a book..." Thank you Tom and Ryan!
@rioguttaful
4 жыл бұрын
An My mom think she so smart 😌
This was AWESOME. Thanks guys. It was like being at a great dinner party. Much needed today and left me with a lot of resources and questions to research!
Sometimes other people's sufferings are a catalyst for us to become a person who will impact others to live their best lives. FanTastic conversation/interview.
Much needed cannot thank you enough for you content tom. Whenever I find myself struggling I know I can count on your channel to help me keep going. I know it sounds stupid but its true.
Great, great interview. Thank you for posting Tom and Co 🙏
I have recently started watching your videos and I find them fascinating. Your guests are so interesting to me. Keep up the great work.
I’m officially torn !! I think i love this format more than impact theory. This is the best. Wish I could sit down and just converse with these two brilliant minds.
Tom is bringing everyone who is masters of their lives and thank u tom for this great content
I set my goals high, so high that many people around me don't believe I'll ever achieve them. And they'll ask me if I actually think I'm capable. I tell then no. It's not me, I'm just the observer. I'm not attached to the outcome. But, it gives me something to shoot for. It gives me a journey and direction. It gives me motivation for today. The reason I set them so high is because I also know that if I were to achieve them all that eventually I would still have to ask, what's next?.
@timothyappleseed2986
2 жыл бұрын
The other thing though is that if I wasn't working towards my goals I would still be thinning about then and that would drive me crazy.
Loved this talk! Thanks Ryan & Tom
you both are one of my best and impactful show ever seen in my life
This is my second time watching this video! I especially appreciate that they are coming at the topic from different stands and dont necessarily agree with each other, loved it💖 Also , i took all that enthusiasm about KZread to my new KZread channel ✨
Tom, my respect for you has grown significantly since watching these interviews. You aren't just watching from afar anymore, you are a warrior in the Arena.
Thank you Ryan for writing an amazing book. I hope to see more books in future.
I am so fucking happy to hear Tom say things about just using the word "quantum" just randomly, and be aware of the dangers of BS. When I first listened to IT and it had Joe Dispenza, I almost misclassified most of the content as B.S. Took me a while to actually realize that both Tom and Joe Dispenza have the best of intentions and are using what they know to help. And I am more than happy to have listened to all the content, since it contains so many valuable life lessons.
@argileaustralia3854
4 жыл бұрын
Hi, yes - I too am fed up with hearing the word quantum thrown in by many people who claim to have some kind of therapy they can sell. AND from the moment The Secret was being touted around the world I refused to read the book, knowing full well it would be more BS packaged for the new age flock.
@bradleyburdett5361
4 жыл бұрын
@@argileaustralia3854 That reminds me of diets like Atkins that have and will continue to be repackaged forevermore.
Tom & Ryan, thank you for being my mentors 💗
I've been waiting for this!! knew it was coming, I just started stillness is the key
Good stuff!! If you’re lacking order and guidance in your life or looking to improve Ryan is the guy!!!💪🏾🔥
This was the best one yet Tom. More of this.
Ryan you are so insightful. Thanks Tom for this show you made it.
This is so good, I love this format, please keep doing it
This is one one of the best stuff guys!! Please, keep it up. I learn a lot from here.
The hours that I spent on the couch, I just died a little 😳💯😧
Checking in from the DMV
Using stillness, such as through mindfulness practices or meditation, can help individuals to cultivate a sense of inner calm, focus, and clarity, which can improve their ability to make thoughtful decisions, develop creative ideas, and maintain a sense of perspective in the face of challenges. By incorporating stillness into their daily routines, individuals can cultivate a more peaceful and fulfilling life, and achieve greatness through a balanced approach to work and personal well-being.
re. dad tomb stone, I was homeless for a long time, while my dad watched as a guardian angel, and my heavenly father. I walked at this park and found a pink feather (not bird). It meant so much to me. I found later that when you find a feather and angel is nearby and I knew it! Since then I've found an orange one. I have another story about a Buck deer crossing my path. When we are down and out, the spiritual gifts are heightened and even better than material.
I listened to the episode on the podcast app 3 times already, this format is extremely good in my opinion, and it is why I came on KZread to leave this comment. Thanks !
@bradleyburdett5361
4 жыл бұрын
Do you want to know what you are. Your a published author.
The potential of the internet, connectivity, communications is exciting to me. I see opportunity/potential as ever expanding, and how we focus, the feelings we choose to cultivate, determine how that potential plays out, or becomes what we call matter.
Some thoughts about wanting to help a family member who is stuck in their unproductive patterns (at about 1:45-1:48) and seeing more for them or wanting to crack the code. What has worked for me is to release my own resistance to their choices. (What is bound on earth is bound in heaven) is the reminder I need. My desire to change them only strengthens their desire to stay locked in. The real lesson for any of us is personal. What is this person here to teach me? Sometimes the lesson is trusting the Divine, or letting go of the need for the other to “get it.” Willingness is the fulcrum point of change. Someone has to be willing to shift first. When you shift your attachments to their story you release the binding. Very often with the letting go, the other magically finds their way.
Love this style! Great episode
This may be my favorite video yet! Super powerful and moving! Wow!
These are the kind of brutally honest conversations that if people really listened to and used as an example for critiquing their own way of thinking would solve a lot of the misinformation being spread through the media today.
I agree, A better balanced healthier way out of love and joy vs stress and anger.
Thank you so much for these motivational inner views, have a great day
really enjoying this format, tom. keep it up!
How does greatness get here in the first place? By having LIFE, that is why we reproduce so that someone else can create and experience greatness as well as ourselves. Thank you, I have been struggling in my 30’s as to if I want to have a child or not and this video made me aware of the answer I have been looking for. I want to have a child so that it has the ability to experience and create greatness in life. I believe in my ability to create greatness even while raising a child because I believe I can do anything. Children are not for everyone but now I know a child is for me. Thank you for helping me to understand what I want in my life.
Ordered the book a few days ago can't wait to get into it. This convo should be good in the meantime :] thanks tom! Another great guest again.
OMG that’s an Astro Boy tee! My childhood favorite cartoon along with Speed Racer!
Tom, your level of awareness and control over it is so fucking inspiring and motivating to me. Thank you so much.
Love this format Tom, stoked to see more
Fantastic conversation, I love this.
Loving this conversation!
Love this set brother 😍.
GREAT INTERVIEW! Life changing!!!
I marinate my mind with all these videos I cant remember everything but I'm more and more self aware with more hope for greatness I would love to be able to change my emotions on a dime if I need to .iv done alot of psychedelics i dont like to glorify it becouse it can be bad in so meny ways but u can get some deep perspective from it like being so intune u can read each other's minds basically from the smallest reaction. You guys are awsome it keep it up it keeps me goin.
Loving this conversation format Tom. Great stuff.
Thank You Tom 💖
Stillness is the foundation of greatness
@ahd200
4 жыл бұрын
Authentic Self Guide you are everywhere
I fuck with this show format, both this and impact theory are very needed! This is level 2
That was f**king awesome! Need to listen again and take notes.
Good talk Gentlemen~ it’s nice to feel like I’m listening to friends being candid. Moreover in a society that can’t sit still and gets off on the misfortune of “multi tasking” whose to say “laying on the couch” isn’t another form of resting and or self preservation? U can be busy and still BE wasting your life. Perhaps dying is more “of the flesh” than of the spirit. I like to think enlightened minds transcend time.
Love this format!
Great episode. Straight to the point with no BS.
Tom you have the natural difference,in you being you, love the consistency of you constantly growing,and your incrdebly specific layer peel back!!!!!!!!! you leave no stone unturned , Get clear when your not, and your ability to be vounerable and ask and not pretend to get it.. i'm a 53 year old mom of 2 who grew up in a shit divorce when I was 3 and then a shit divorce when my youngest was 3, by an unfaithful dad, sum total? awesomness ive become exactly the mother any kid would have wanted, at least from my lenses, and knew from my own experience, there would be no Step Father, long story short, they are both in college daughter getting a freeking Phd in math, the reason I share, Is Tom like, you ive been facinated by the human condition and collected my experiences and put them in a book called How to LOve your kids more than you dislike your ex, and I would love to meet your wife and be on your show.. When the book is done? what do you think? I'll send you a copy and it's a quick read, how has time in a divorcee? I,m still healing my childhood wounds, my Father hid us from my mother for years I have a "i need my mommy" issue, that pops up needless to say i should have a Phd. in phycology, because all ive done is read to figure out the brain, and cosmetology for 30 years so ive got stories about people. in 53 years i have had fun and been to hell in a laundry basket and back from illness with support of amazing friends and deep learning about yourself on a sailboat 35 feet long for five months. I am a super Fan, starting a pod cast, I know nothing about because of you, it's called voices of magic where I explore the things you can feel but can't see. pretty cool right, had to invent a new life to deal with the real thing called the empty nest deal it's called 4 years of grief, then pick up your shit and become a unicorn. i enrolled in school and learning in Jan so excited to find my own passion in helping others..... the best day at work...... when i make a new sparkliy connection Thanks for being true to you,,,,, do yourself a favor.. don't change who you are, the set is cool but stay you dude and that adorable wife of yours with your brittish accent you anticipated before she arrived. you guys rock and now I have hope that I can find my other unicorn forgive the shit spelling if you can read it, does it really matter?
This interview is amazing!
I like you new Joe Rogan podcast format is the best way to actually know a person. I bought "the obstacle is the way" and "the ego is the enemy" on audio books and is nice to learn and reafirm stoic values.
This is so very true‼️‼️‼️ When I was 9-10 years old I had Doctors telling my dear mom that I will be crippled by the age of 40 cause I had severe pains in my wrist. My response was No I won’t ! It turns out I had growing pains cause I was tall for my age and they mistook my pains for rheumatism. Lol. Doctors don’t always know what they are talking about and I’m so glad I had the six science knowing better then to believe nonsense. I’m after 50 now and it’s all about nutrition and exercise.
This is the best. Loved listening to where these philosophical ideas took you guys. More of this!
@jodyclaggett786
4 жыл бұрын
Also, I have an idea to grow your audience. Take it or leave it, message me.
What a great book.. Who else has read all of Ryan's books? I have them all as summaries on my channel!
@establishonlinemarketing8398
4 жыл бұрын
I have read them all!
@infairvarona
4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome! Made me subscribe to your channel! ☺️
@EthanSchwandtTheMindMapGuy
4 жыл бұрын
@@infairvarona Awesome!
Loving this new platform! Also that shelf of books and the brain is the shit!
That was solid! Thanks for sharing
This was really impactful at @18:00 or so about how to channel that dark energy.
I saw Lance Armstrong interview Caitlin Jenner, and that was awesome! Even though he was stripped of his titles, he helped so many cancer survivors through his Livestrong foundation. That was his piece de resistance.
Great talk. It's great to get to know you guys in this more natural and less prepared way. What I wanted to say is that "Umwelt" means exactly the same as environment. Could be environment in like global warming or environment in the things around you but it's not about perspective.
Thank you Tom and Ryan
You can do multiple things at the same time IF you prefer doing so and get more results. With all the respect I have for Tom he's saying this because that's the way HE behaves, maybe that's not yours. When you hear a advise please take it as it is. And build YOURS ON TOP OF IT. That's how you'll get incredible results! Much love ❤️
Update guys! Completed reading another book. Book count: 162
@successfularabsl6225
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome 👏👏.. I look forward to your comments 😍😍😍.. I ordered a books 2 days ago,, & I think about you.. what would you recommend 💭💭
@bnsgokugreat
4 жыл бұрын
@@successfularabsl6225 Thank you for your comment! It made my day :) I recommend you to check " Unthetered Soul " and " Atomic Habit " books :)
@successfularabsl6225
4 жыл бұрын
@@bnsgokugreat You are more than welcome... some times we sell our self short.. you really have an impact even if you don't realize it 👏👏🙏🏻.. about the books I already read Atomic Habit & I love it.. but the other one still I checked the reviews on Amazon & it's a little bit discouraged 😕😕what do you think?
@bnsgokugreat
4 жыл бұрын
@@successfularabsl6225 If people ask me to just give a book recommendation out of all the books I have read, I will say it as "Untethered Soul". My life changed after reading that book :) BTW, Thank you for the support :)
@AnonyTests
4 жыл бұрын
bnsgokugreat adding it to my reading list, thank you!
I wish I could talk to Ryan Holiday! I haven't met anyone as fine-tuned on the awareness of death as I am. I love that he has a tombstone as a reminder to be present, that's really neat. Man I enjoyed this! I believe Momento Mori is the most important message to be aware of & I use it in my own life too. I love talking about death, it gives us many lessons about life in itself.
@keepcreationprocess
3 жыл бұрын
Very fine tuned,just like Robert.
two brilliant dudes. thanks fo yo contributions to humanity broz