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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

Hello, I'm Hannah and I'm Sirete and we are the hosts of a Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. Every week on Redhanded we get stuck into the most talked about cases, from the Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga.

Last year we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like.

We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another Sunday edition of the Daily Stoke podcast. Today's episode is about habits and it's fitting because we're in the middle of watching our Daily Stoke Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness Challenge.

It's six weeks of psychological and philosophically based strategies for building better habits, foundational habits that will help you be both more successful and happier at home.

The Stoics had this word arate, which meant excellence and excellence is what we're after in all facets of life. And that's why we designed this habit challenge. We invite you to check it out at dailystoke.com slash habits.

We have a false picture about how success happens because we see only the results and almost never the process of things that we tend to think that if the finished product, a book being in shape, being wise is impressive, then therefore the process by which the event was created must have been equally brilliant.

In fact, it's usually the opposite. Success like the proverbial sausage is much less pretty when you see how it's made. I make no pretensions about being wise or in shape, but I do know books well.

I also remember equally well how I thought authors created them back when I was just a reader. I assumed that it must be some magical special process. If only that were so.

The single best rule I've heard as a writer is that the way to write a book is by producing two crappy pages a day. It's by carving out a small win each and every day, getting words on the page that a book is created.

Hemingway once said that the first draft of anything is shit and he's right. I actually have that on my wall as a reminder. And while it would be wonderful if books could be created through raw genius, if we could spit fire each time we sat down at a keyboard.

That's not how it goes. Instead the best writers have routines that put their asses in the chair and create opportunities to move the ball slightly forward each day.

Enough of these small actions strung together reviewed dissected iterated upon produces publishable work and it's a process that might even produce things that sell like crazy or take people's breath away.

And while this might be less glamorous the upside is that it means it's much more accessible businesses are also built by humble means good ones anyway sure the we works of the world get all sorts of attention for their ambitious plans for taking over the world and their stratospheric valuations can make it seem like a viable strategy.

This is often these companies collapse or implode and in the end not even the bones or the foundation remain because they never existed in the first place they were fictions created in a flash when no one was watching trees that grow tall and live long gross slowly especially at first but then they grow steadily they may be underground a long time and a vulnerable sapling for longer still but like a good idea or a new habit once the roots are in their hard to dislodge.

And so it goes with businesses and net worth Plutarch tells us the story of a rich ship owner who was asked how he built his fortune the greater part came easily he said but the first smaller part took time and effort how does that work creating anything of consequence or magnitude requires deliberate incremental and consistent work at the beginning these efforts might not look like they are amounting to much but with time they accumulate and then compound on each other.

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