Ryan Holiday
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586 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 24 Jul
Ryan Holiday’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They think the rules don't apply.
And this is why they end up almost always overreaching, causing drama, getting sucked into conflicts, you know, missing warnings, etc.
And it's also, I think this is a big thing, egotistical people are very easy to manipulate because you can flatter them.
You can deceive them.
You can tell them what they want to hear.
A humble person, a confident person, they don't mind being disagreed with.
They seek out divergent opinions.
They're not threatened by talented people.
Look, that was one of the problems at American Apparel.
Dove, who was brilliant and very successful, was reluctant to hire other competent people around him because he thought they would constrain him.
He thought they would challenge him.
He wanted to like, like, look, on one level, it was absurd that I was the director of marketing at a publicly traded company at 21.
It worked out OK in my case, but
But there were just a lot of people there.
And again, myself included at times who were just unqualified to be there.
But because we were less threatening, that's why we were there.
And that is a recipe for building a dysfunctional organization and team.
Yes.
Yeah, look, that's what this virtue of self-discipline is all about.
And I do find people struggle with that.
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