Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

This is how I got down the path , mainly because I didn't realize how many people valued other people's opinions . So of course , you want to be successful at 25 . You wanna show your mom , you wanna show your friends , you wanna show the world , of course , you're lacking patience .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

You want BMW , you want a Rolex , you want a blue check mark , you want a million followers , you wanna be an entrepreneur and all this bad behavior happened in the last decade because of it . Well , I think it's important to point out how they interrelate with each other because this is so when people hear accountability or humility or candor in isolation , they're OK . But you can , they can also turn into problems , right ?

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

It's nice to have standards . I'm not saying that , but like this notion of beating yourself up when you fall short on something that is a standard or an ambition is incredibly unhealthy . Well , it's like you would never talk to someone else the way that you talk to yourself .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

Yeah . Or it's like if you're driven and ambitious you work 15 hours a day , it can be really easy to just expect that from other people . One of my favorite videos you're talking to someone , they're like , you're like the other people , they're not owners of the business .

Eliminate Fear in the Workplace | Ryan Holiday Podcast

And uh they can also speak to you the most directly . I think that it is just a big goddamn deal and all of this is and it's really time that we actually talk about it as like the like the alternate title to this is the Soft Skills are hard . That'd be a good title .