Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan Holiday & Tim Ferriss Discuss ”Alive Time vs Dead Time”

Ryan speaks with Tim Ferriss, the author, podcaster, and investor. Tim has written five New York Times best selling books, including The 4-Hour Workweek, The 4-Hour Body, Tools of Titans and Tribe of Mentors. His podcast, The Tim Ferriss Show, has over 400 million downloads on iTunes. He has been an early investor in over 50 companies, including Uber, Facebook, Shopify, and Alibaba. Tim writes a hugely popular blog and has spoken in front of millions of people, whether on TV or to organizations like Google, MIT, Microsoft, and Palantir.

(4:57) - How Stoicism has helped them deal with COVID-19
(21:30) - How do you process anger about the response?
(32:08) - Fear - how do you defend against it? what do you tell someone who is overwhelmed by it?
(41:23) - “Turning alive time into dead time”
(51:16) - What can people do to help?

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