Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient stillics, 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. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stowed Podcast. Growing up in Sacramento, I don't know if there was that much to make me proud of being from Sacramento. I mean, I remember when the kings were good and we played the Lakers there was a lot of

defensiveness when Phil Jackson said we were a cow town and so there was always

this sort of under doggy sense of Sacramento and then also a sense that

it's pretty slow and boring, but they're, it's

weird as I've gotten older you think about where you're from differently, but I feel like it always did a bad job communicating how, what a kind of an

interesting tradition it had.

Supreme Court justices were from Sacramento.

So my favorite bands from Sacramento.

A great novelist was from Sacramento,

where his wife's family was in Sacramento.

He based one of his novels in Roseville.

I'm talking about my,

someone I rave about here a lot, John Fontay.

But then Joan Didian is from Sacramento,

like really from from Sacramento.

She has a great book called where I was from,

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