#355: Leadership and Public Service With Gov. Eric Greitens

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

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🗓️ 9 November 2017

⏱️ 44 minutes

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#355: Leadership and Public Service With Gov. Eric Greitens by The Art of Manliness

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0:00.0	[♪ INTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪
0:13.9	Bremake here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcasts.
0:18.7	Now the Art of Manliness is intentionally and rigorously politically neutral and I never
0:22.9	had a politician on the podcast before but then, never before has a previous guest
0:27.4	gone on to become the governor of a state.
0:29.7	I previously had Eric Gritans, a former Rhodes scholar, humanitarian worker, and Navy
0:33.4	Seal on the Show to talk about his book Resilience.
0:35.2	That's episode number 105.
0:36.8	You want to listen to that?
0:37.6	That's a good one.
0:38.1	But last year, without any prior political experience, Gritans successfully ran for
0:42.3	Governor Missouri becoming the second youngest governor in the country.
0:45.6	Recently, I met with Gritans in the governor's office at the Missouri State Capital in Jefferson
0:49.3	City, Missouri to have a very non-partisan high-level discussion about public service
0:53.4	and the duties of citizenship.
0:54.8	We discuss why he decided to run for elected office and why he incorporated service projects
0:59.8	and community projects and his campaign stops around the state.
1:02.5	We then discuss how the governor's study of ancient philosophy informs his idea of public
1:06.7	service and how stoicism comes in handy in the rough and tumble political arena.
1:10.9	Governor Gritans then shares what he's been reading to be an effective leader in statesmen,
1:14.5	his role models for public office, and how he manages being a young father and a busy governor
1:19.5	at the same time.
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