Ask Daily Stoic: Guest Starring Steven Pressfield
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🗓️ 29 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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This week's extra-long Saturday episode of Ask Daily Stoic features Ryan talking about, and speaking with, author Steven Pressfield, writer of classic books such as The Legend of Bagger Vance, Gates of Fire, and The War of Art.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic. |
| 0:07.3 | For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, |
| 0:12.8 | wisdom necessary for living good life. |
| 0:16.0 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
| 0:20.5 | of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:23.0 | For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com. |
| 0:27.5 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:30.5 | And I'm Sirete. |
| 0:31.5 | And we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly true crime podcast. |
| 0:35.3 | Every week on Red Handed, we yet stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:38.8 | From the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch |
| 0:43.2 | saga. |
| 0:44.2 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for us |
| 0:49.1 | to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we |
| 0:51.6 | like. |
| 0:52.6 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, |
| 0:56.3 | who grew some history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of |
| 1:00.7 | genetic sexual attraction. |
| 1:02.4 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior. |
| 1:07.2 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? |
| 1:09.8 | What drives a child to kill? |
| 1:12.0 | And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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