Adam Nicolson On The Rule Of Philosophy & Greek Mythology
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🗓️ 27 January 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks with English author Adam Nicolson on greek mythology, real meaning of the oceans, travel, the grand question about philosophy, that what really matters more? to understand the higher things above you, or the material actualities, along with his new book How To Be: Life Lessons from the Early Greeks
Adam is an English author who has written about history, landscape, great literature and the sea. He is noted for his books Sea Room, God’s Secretaries: The Making of the King James Bible, The Mighty Dead, and Life between the Tides. He is also the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the W. H. Heinemann Award, and the Ondaatje Prize.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a |
| 0:08.4 | meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage, |
| 0:15.7 | justice, temperance, and wisdom. |
| 0:18.3 | And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at |
| 0:26.8 | length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time. |
| 0:35.7 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down, be |
| 0:41.0 | sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal, and most importantly |
| 0:47.3 | to prepare for what the week ahead may bring. |
| 0:55.0 | Hey, it's Ryan. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. |
| 1:00.0 | Had a bit of a crazy experience on the way to recording today's interview. |
| 1:06.0 | We got the kids in the car. It's absolutely freezing here in Austin. |
| 1:09.2 | We're prepared, preparing slash prepared for a very big freeze. |
| 1:14.0 | And everyone in Texas has a little bit of PTSD because two, three years ago, |
| 1:21.0 | the whole state's power grid basically failed and we were trapped in our houses and here |
| 1:26.7 | at the painted porch the roof had so much snow and ice on it it's partially caved in, pipes froze. |
| 1:32.1 | Even just a year ago we had a freeze in some pipes for us. |
| 1:34.4 | So we all have a, you know, we're a bit sensitive here to it in Texas. |
| 1:37.6 | Anyways, we're driving down on the dirt road where we live, |
| 1:40.7 | and we see these two deer standing out in a field we point them out to the kids who |
| 1:45.0 | roll their eyes they're not interested in deer at all anymore and then my wife |
| 1:48.6 | goes stop the car stop the car and she's like pull up to the side don't let the |
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