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Ask Daily Stoic: Ryan and NBA G League Coach Coby Karl Answer Your Questions About Stoicism and Sports

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Education, Daily Stoic, Stoic, Ryan Holiday, Self-improvement, 694393, Stoic Philosophy, Business, Society & Culture, Stoicism, Philosophy

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Today Ryan talks with Coby Karl, a former member of the Los Angeles Lakers and current head coach of the NBA G League’s South Bay Lakers. They take questions from Daily Stoic readers and listeners about the merits of coaching, and how to stay physically and mentally healthy with the tenets of Stoicism.

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0:00.0

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0:12.6

Welcome to the Daily Stoke, where each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight,

0:19.8

wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.

0:30.0

For more, you can visit us at dailystoke.com.

0:36.0

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete.

0:38.0

And we are the hosts of a Red Handed, a weekly True Crime Podcast.

0:41.0

Every week on Red Handed, we get stuck into the most talked about cases.

0:45.0

From the Idaho Student Killings, the Delphine murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

0:50.0

Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Short Hand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

0:59.0

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

1:09.0

Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behavior.

1:14.0

Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist?

1:20.0

Listen to Red Handed wherever you get your podcasts and access our bonus Short Hand episodes exclusively on Amazon Music, or by subscribing to Wondry Plus in Apple Podcasts or the Wondry app.

1:32.0

Hey, I'm Cassie Depeckle, the host of Wondries Against the Odds. In our next season, Amelia Earhart wants to make history by flying across the Atlantic alone, but brutal weather and malfunctioning equipment could leave her lost its sea.

1:46.0

Listen to Against the Odds on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts.

1:51.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. We are doing another episode of Astyle Stoke today, but with a guest, as you know, we've had Stephen Pressfield on, we've had Austin Cleon on, and then this week we've have Kobe Carl, the former NBA player, now the head coach for the Los Angeles Lakers, G League team, the South Bay Lakers.

2:11.0

He shot me a random email. Apparently got my email from Brent Barry, the former NBA player who's now with the Spurs.

2:19.0

It's been really cool to see the books sort of work their way through the NBA and professional sports over the years. Certainly when you sit down and you write a book about ancient philosophy, you're not thinking like professional sports.

2:31.0

But I think the reason the books have resonated in sports is first and foremost, the Stoics were almost certainly athletes. Marcus Reles talks so comfortably about wrestling, about boxing.

2:45.0

He was a hunter. He clearly, although he wasn't into sort of frivolous activities, I think he saw sports as a metaphor, as a training ground for life.

2:54.0

And this goes way back in the Stoic history. There was one of the early Stoics clientes, was a boxer.

3:02.0

Cricypus was actually a distance runner. They did this insane distance event in ancient Athens.

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