Author Ryan Holiday on Ego, Obstacles, Writing

Michael Gervais (0:09)

All right, welcome back or welcome to the Finding Mastery Podcast. I'm Michael Gervais. And the idea behind these conversations is to sit down with people who are on it, who are just flat out on it. They're on the path of mastery. They have a deep understanding about how their craft works. But more importantly, we don't talk about the craft very much. More importantly, we're working to understand their unique psychological framework, how they understand how the world works, how they understand how they work and people work.

And the idea behind exploring that is to see if we can use their insights and wisdoms to reveal deeper our insights and wisdom. So insight and wisdom is revealed. It's not gathered from outside of us. We have to work from within to be able to reveal insight and wisdoms. So this conversation for me at least is like this calibration tool. And it's to hear and challenging ideas and also to hear ideas that have alignment based on the things that I've worked to understand as well.

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