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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a

meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.

And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful.

With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.

But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.

You have to get to the outside. In sports, you want to get to the outside of your defender. In life, it's better to get outside to get to fresh air and sunshine.

And so it goes with decision making too. When we had Annie Duke on the podcast recently about her book How to Decide, she kept using the phrase,

getting outside, getting outside your biases, getting outside the immediacy of your problem or the situation.

You don't want to be stuck inside, metaphorically or literally. You want to break out and break free so you can really see and think.

And this is also what the Stoics advised. Marcus Aurelius referred to taking Plato's view. He wanted to get up and see from 10,000 feet above.

He wanted to see life, see what was bothering him, see what other people were doing with their perspective. He wanted to get to the outside.

Why? So he wasn't so biased, so he wasn't so frustrated, so he didn't make it into something more than it needed to be.

So he wasn't blinded by it, so he could make better decisions.

And this is what we have to do as well in sports, in life, in our thinking, in our choices, get to the outside. Don't be trapped inside, get some perspective.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast.

One of the coolest experiences I ever had in my life was when I lived in Manhattan. And I was down near Grammar C Park and was walking around and I just bumped into this building that said the birthplace of Theodore Roosevelt.

I had read a bunch about who was a hero of mine, and I knew he grew up in New York, but I didn't think the house was there. I didn't think it was a national park.

And if I remember correctly, it was free. And you walk in and you can see the gym, you know, the story I tell in the obstacles, the way about his father saying you've got a strong mind, but you've got to make your body.

You can see the gym that Theodore Roosevelt developed the strenuous life on. But most incredibly, on the downstairs, there's a little museum.

And in the museum, they have a copy of Theodore Roosevelt's copy of Epic Titus. And I remember I walked in and I saw this and I didn't know that Theodore Roosevelt had ever really connected with the Stokes in any way.

And it's, is that what I think it is? And it was and it's inscribed and it mentions that he took this book with him on his journey exploring the Brazilian Amazon down the river of doubt.

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