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The Daily Stoic

ESPN's Paul Kix - How Anyone Can Change Everything

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

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

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

On today’s podcast, Ryan talks with Paul Kix about the French Resistance (the topic of Kix’s first book), what we can learn from historical events and the people who made them happen, and more.

Paul Kix is a writer, editor, and podcaster. Kix is a deputy editor at ESPN who both writes and edits articles. He has written for outlets such as The New Yorker, GQ, and The Wall Street Journal. Kix’s first book, The Saboteur, discusses the wartime exploits of a French aristocrat who fought against the Nazi occupation of France.

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0:00.0

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0:11.7

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

0:22.0

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.

0:51.0

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.

1:01.0

Hello, it is Matt and Alice from British Scandal here and we wanted to let you know that this season we are very excited to be covering the Cambridge Spies.

1:11.0

It's got everything you could possibly want from a series of British Scandal, treachery in the establishment, overconfident public school boys, and strange meetings on part benches.

1:20.0

Check, check, and double check. You can search and follow British Scandal wherever you listen to podcasts, or listen early and add free via the 1D++ subscription in Apple Podcasts or the 1DREAD.

1:51.0

But if you ask me, I'm just getting started and there's so much I still want to do. So I decided I want to be a podcast host. I'm proud to introduce you to the Baby Mrs. Kiki Palmer podcast.

2:00.0

I'm putting my friends, family, and some of the dopest experts in the hot seat to ask them the questions that have been burning in my mind.

2:06.0

What will former child stars be if they weren't actors? What happened to sitcoms? It's only fans, only bad. I want to know. So I asked my mom about it.

2:14.0

These are the questions that keep me up at night, but I'm taking these questions out of my head and I'm bringing them to you because on Baby Mrs. Kiki Palmer, no topic is off limits.

2:23.0

Follow Baby Mrs. Kiki Palmer, whatever you get your podcast. You can listen early and add free on the Amazon Music or 1DREAD.

2:33.0

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. I don't know if you saw, but earlier this summer, ESPN wrote a piece about stoicism in sports.

2:48.0

That article titled The Ancient Credo That Fueled the Patriot Way Inspired Nick Sabin and Helped Ryan Shay's Ear Heal was written by Paul Kicks, a deputy editor at ESPN, the magazine.

3:01.0

He's written everywhere for the New Yorker and GQ and New York and men's journal on the Wall Street Journal.

3:06.0

Anyways, a great guy who I've gotten to know, not just in the course of reporting that article. It was cool he interviewed everyone from CJ McCollum to Ryan Shay's Ear, Michelle Tafoya, he interviewed Lane Kiffin who I've gotten to know.

3:19.0

Anyways, it was great not just to see him talk about all those other people, but I got to have a bunch of conversations with Paul and as a result, I read Paul's book, which I loved.

3:31.0

It's called The Sabotour, the aristocrat who became France's most daring anti-Nazi commando. It's this fascinating, totally true story about one of the leaders of the French resistance in World War II.

3:45.0

He's like this daring commando who does all these behind enemy lines, raids, he gets captured, he escapes a bunch of times. It's just an incredible book.

3:55.0

I really liked it. One of my favorite genres to read is this genre we call it sort of narrative nonfiction. I feel like this book fits perfectly in that.

4:03.0

And then to know, obviously that the author ended up being a fan of and inspired by stoicism makes the whole thing very serendipitous.

4:11.0

And so anyway, it was great to have Paul Kicks on the podcast. He's got a great newsletter. You can check out if you go to PaulKicks.com.

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