David Rubenstein on Patriotic Philanthropy and the Value of History

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Education, Philosophy, Self-improvement, Stoicism, Stoic, 694393, Daily Stoic, Stoic Philosophy, Society & Culture, Ryan Holiday, Business

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🗓️ 16 October 2021

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Ryan talks to American billionaire businessman David Rubenstein about his new book The American Experiment: Dialogues on a Dream, learning from past historical figures' successes and from their mistakes, his original concept of patriotic philanthropy and giving back after coming from a middle class family, his thoughts on finding enough and finding peace in success, and more.

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0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.3	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:19.2	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:24.1	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.5	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things
0:46.9	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
1:01.2	Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode the Daily Stoic podcast. I am just digging myself out of the
1:11.1	Backlog from the courage is calling launch trying to you know, Mark's really talks about when you lose the rhythm try to
1:20.3	Revert back to yourself get back on to it when you're jarred by circumstances, you know
1:26.8	Get back on track basically and that's what I find happens on book launches like it's just this thing that consumes so much of your time and energy
1:34.2	Just like been recording several hours of podcasts every day. I had to travel for it
1:38.9	I'd assign all the books I'd oversee the books getting out and there was disaster after disaster after disaster
1:45.8	Got through it so honored and grateful for all the support and
1:51.3	Help and I do hope you you like the book. I've heard great things if you did like the book
1:56.3	Please leave an Amazon review and make a big difference helps people understand
1:59.9	I don't care if it's positive or negative
2:01.7	I really just care if you say what you think and and the more in depth you go the better people really
2:07.1	Benefit and take seriously those reviews that are a couple paragraphs not like a two cents thing
2:12.8	It was a great book or I hated it
2:14.5	But just like really say what you think say what you liked what you didn't like what I could have done better
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