Brian Klaas on the Pursuit of Power and How It Corrupts | It’s About What We’re Willing To Give

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to professor Brian Klaas about his new book Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us, why we should minimize the psychological distance between leaders and the people they lead, the differences between functional and dysfunctional psychopaths, and more.

Brian Klaas is an associate professor of global politics at University College London and the host of the award-winning Power Corrupts podcast. Klaas is a contributor to The Washington Post and a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC News, Sky News, NPR News, BBC Radio, Bloomberg and CNBC. He has advised NATO, the European Union, and several major international NGOs. Klaas received his doctorate in politics from the University of Oxford.

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0:30.4	Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired
0:36.7	by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength
0:42.7	and insight here in everyday life.
0:45.8	And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known
0:51.7	and obscure, fascinating and powerful.
0:54.9	With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are
0:59.8	and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.
1:04.3	But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
1:09.8	It's about what you're willing to give.
1:14.1	Marcus Aurelius would have never chosen to be emperor.
1:18.0	It was destiny that chose him as I tell about in my book, The Boy Who Would Be King.
1:25.1	And Marcus Aurelius accepted this at considerable sacrifice.
1:29.7	Ritilius Rufus, whose story I tell in Lives of the Stoics, wanted simply to be good and honest,
1:35.9	which in Rome at that time meant he was attacked and ultimately exiled.
1:40.3	Cato gave his life in an act of devotion to the Republic.
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