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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, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Got a fascinating guest this week. Someone I've wanted to talk to since I first saw some of his videos. I'm talking about Congressman Dan Crenshaw. I was introduced to Congressman Crenshaw through another guest we've had on the podcast and another Congressman, Congressman Mike Gallagher.

Dan is a fascinating guy. He's a former Navy seal. He did five tours of duty with the Navy seals, you know, a real American hero. He lost his right eye in 2012 in an ID explosion.

He's an awarded two bronze stars, the Purple Heart and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander in the Navy. And then in 2018, he won an election for the United States House of Representatives in Texas's second World War II.

Texas's second congressional district, which is not far from me in Texas. I first heard of Dan like a lot of people when he was made fun of by Pete Davidson on Saturday and live.

I was telling you about his ID explosion. So so Dan wears an eye patch. And so he was teased on television. And while it would have been probably an easy way to score political points to be outraged to be offended.

Dan reacted with good humor and grace. He ended up going on SNL and joking about it. The sort of catapulted him to the to the national stage to be sure.

But he's had some awesome appearances on Joe Rogan's podcast. A couple of weeks ago, we did an amazing appearance on Bill Marr, where he sort of presented what was a pretty compelling counter narrative to the idea that Donald Trump has bungled the response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Dan's really smart. He's got a graduate degree from Harvard. You know, he knows his stuff. I don't agree with him on everything, but he knows his stuff and he's smart. And I think it is important that we have conversations with people we disagree with people who are smart, who can challenge our viewpoints.

And that's really the premise of Dan's newest book, which I read and really enjoyed. It's called Fortitude American resilience in the era of outrage. It's a great book.

You know, obviously fortitude and endurance and strength is a really important idea and stoic philosophy. He talks about epictetus in the book. You know, a lot of these sort of political memoirs are just sort of like.

You know, they're done by ghost writers. They're they're not really sincere. It's just it's a campaign device. You know, this book is not that it's a good book. It's an important book. It deserves to be read.

Again, don't agree with all of it. I think as I talk about with Dan, you know, the idea that I'll sort of lack of fortitude is victim culture snowflake culture exists solely on the left is a preposterous. We've talked about this before.

But we live in a culture where people are afraid of as general Mattis would say the dangerous world of ideas they want to retreat into the safety of their own views, their own partisanship, you know, their own convenient clean narratives.

But reality is history is messy. The world is complicated. We're all trying to do the best we can within it. And that becomes really hard when people say certain things are off limits instead of engaging with ideas. We label the other side as evil or racist or stupid or, you know, malicious or whatever it is that we're doing.

And so we have to talk about these things and it's actually in the conflict between these ideas that I think we get closer to the approximation of the truth. So there's a great conversation. Dan is a is a fascinating guy. I think you'll like this.

Check out the book fortitude fortitude is is clearly a virtue. It's something we all need more than ever. And as I would say, just as I've said in past episodes to people who are mad that I've criticized, you know, the president or criticized Republicans.

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