Hello everybody. Welcome to Mindful Metal Jacket. You're back. I'm back. Thank you for coming back or for trying it out for the first time.

Like anal. for trying it out for the first time.

Like anal.

I appreciate you listening.

Glad you're here.

Hope you're doing well.

Are you doing well?

It's a good thing to ask yourself, right? I mean I'm asking you, but I'm not there and most likely you don't really know me. So my asking you is like you asking yourself, hmm? Are you doing okay? Are the people

around you doing okay? That's an important distinction. Sometimes you feel good

but you're making everyone else miserable or vice versa.

I hope you're doing well and I appreciate you being here.

I'm excited about today's episode. I had a great conversation that I hope you enjoy and

everyone keeps asking for a list of all the books that are mentioned. I should start

that or put that somewhere. Maybe I'll post it on Instagram, but some of them, I'll just tell you about it right now or recall.

One that Shafi Hossain and I were talking about is a guide to the good life by William Irvine.

That's all about Stoicism, which we talked about a bunch of that episode.

A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine.

And here's a book I haven't really mentioned on the podcast

that I forgot about that I love.

Well, not that I forgot about it,

it just hasn't been in the front of my mind,

but the compassionate life by a guy named Mark Ian Barash, B I A R A S C H, it's called the compassionate Life, Walking the Path of Kindness.

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