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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes

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 challenging 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 Stoke podcast

I was thinking about this the other day. I bought my first copy of Marcus Aurelis's meditations on

On Amazon in the fall of 2006. I pulled up the receipt not that long ago

But and I remember the other two books I bought I bought a book called Sex on the Brain which is about the the relationship between sex and gender and

A book called the Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris which remains one of my absolute favorite books

um

But I think about how lucky I was not just that I lived in a country where I could

uh buy a book on demand over the internet or that that I could afford to do so

But I had been recommended Marcus Aurelis's meditations and so I typed it in on Amazon

And for whatever reason the one I bought the Gregory Hayes translation for the modern library

Which we sell in the painted porch uh which you can you can check out in the show notes here

But that for whatever reason Amazon's algorithm surfaced

The right translation for me at the time they didn't value some you know, chinsy or cheap

Uh rip-off translation or you know

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