Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a

meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage,

justice, temperance, and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics we interview stoic philosophers

we explore at length how these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenge and issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down,

be sure to take some time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with your journal,

and most importantly to prepare for what the week ahead may bring.

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

If you're following closely, which I assume you all are, with bated breath, my recovery,

I got my first run in on Monday, then a mile, walked a mile, then Then Tuesday I ran two miles and walked a mile and then today I ran four miles. I'm not exactly back, but I feel better. Actually I felt a little blister popping up on my heel which was unclesant and then also I said

I'm grateful for it right because it means I'm getting to do the thing that I like and I get to I will pay the tax as Seneca's that I'll pay the tax if if blisters if a blister is a result of getting to run again. I'll take it. But it's funny because the topic actually came up when I had today's guest on the podcast.

I was talking about how I was a little bit out of commission because of the ankle and that I was having to think about it as its own kind of marathon or ordeal to not get to do this thing that I get so many physical and mental benefits from.

I would have to practice the virtue of temperance in holding back as opposed to pushing forward.

And we talk about that more in the second half of the podcast,

which I'll bring you later in the week.

But the first one, Sam jokes that this is the business edition of the Daily Still,

because we talk about money, we talk about growth, we talk about newsletters, we talk about

being goal-oriented, and how to do things that make you happy and of course how to how to

build a life or a business or a career around that also. Sam is someone I'm

known for a very long time I I've known his work for a long time because he's the

founder of the Hustle which was a huge newsletter and media company and we met at a conference in Colorado I think and hung out and became friends and then he moved to Texas and we've gotten to see each other quite a bit as well.

I've been on his podcast, my first million a a few times so I'll link to those

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