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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, everyone, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Today we have an awesome guest, someone I've gotten to know through one of my favorite people in the whole world. We end up talking about an interview coach George Raveling.

Today's guest is a coach himself coach Buzz Williams. He's currently the head basketball coach at Texas and university. He's a fascinating guy who's previously the head basketball coach at Virginia Tech and then at Marquette, the head coach at New Orleans, which we talk a little bit about.

I find Buzz to be very fascinating. He's a self-effacing guy. I think he somewhat plays up that he's not as smart as he is. I think he's a brilliant guy. He's a hella of a reader. Well, that's one of the things we talk about in the interview.

He's a very talented guy who Buzz not only reads, but sort of a man after my own heart has has a very regimented reading practice. He was telling me and I got to see it when I went and visited him at Virginia Tech, he has notes from every book he's ever read.

I was lucky enough to speak to his team at Virginia Tech and then I spoke to his team at A&M at the beginning of this season. One of the things he's sent me after both talks were the pages and pages of notes that he took. He uses different color pens. He has incredible penmanship, which is also something I'm not quite good at.

But he treats reading like an athlete treats the game of basketball or the game of baseball or the game of football. He's disciplined about it. He reviews his progress. He breaks down what he's doing. He's committed to it.

And I think that's why he's partly why he's been able to accomplish all the things that he's been able to accomplish. But as a big fan of stoicism, that's what he had me come speak to the team about both times. He's got all our daily stoke challenge coins. He's got a bust of Marcus really is in his new office there at Texas A&M.

So just a fascinating guy, super connected in sports is always looking to learn from different people. He asks lots and lots of questions. As you'll see in the interview, I think he's someone that we can all learn from whether we're interested in sports or not.

One of the things I also think's interesting about buzz and the schools that he's taught at, he's really kind of carved out a niche for himself as a coach who isn't at the biggest school. So he's not able to get the sort of cream of the crop athletes, but he's able to find the sort of the undiscovered gems.

He's able to find guys with a lot of heart and he's been able to accomplish with his teams, you know, things that people just didn't think were possible. He's gone really far in the NCAA tournaments many times over the years.

Again with with teams that I don't think other coaches probably would have recruited and I don't think they would have been able to lead as far into the tournament as buzz has been able to do. And I think that's sort of a testament to his skill, his communication strategies.

The way he's able to inspire his players. And yeah, this is just really impressive and partly why I wanted to talk to him and bring some of his insights to you guys. He's on lockdown during this quarantine, like the rest of us, but it's been focusing on turning that into a live time.

And I've just been lucky enough to see some of the impact and influence that buzz has had the lives that he's changed as a coach. One of the most surreal ways that I felt that is about a year and a half ago, Jimmy Butler, who was then I think with Boston was interviewed and was talking about how he'd read ego is the enemy.

And I was trying to figure out how he could have possibly heard about the book and it turns out that he had gone to a market and buzz had been his coach. And because he has such a great relationship with his players over the years that buzz had recommended my book to Jimmy and Jimmy had read it and talked about it. And as it happens, pow,

the saw who we had on the podcast heard about my books from Jimmy Butler. So you know, this idea of passing books around how sort of ideas can worm their way through culture and the importance and the power of connection and influence and sort of trying to help people. I think these are all themes that we talk about in the interview. So I'm really excited for you to listen to buzz and I will talk to you all soon.

Hey, it's Guy Ross here and on my podcast how I built this I talked to the founders behind some of the world's biggest and most innovative companies like Starbucks, Google and Patagonia.

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