ESPN’s Seth Wickersham on the Patriots, Tom Brady and Greatness
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Ryan talks to Seth Wickersham about his book It's Better to Be Feared: The New England Patriots Dynasty and the Pursuit of Greatness, the struggle and tension that exists in the pursuit of greatness, how Tom Brady has cultivated greatness and maintained it throughout his career, and more.
Seth Wickersham is an American sports writer for ESPN and ESPN The Magazine. He has written for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine since graduating from the University of Missouri in 2000. His work primarily covers the National Football League (NFL) and has been featured on Outside the Lines, SportsCenter, NFL Live, The Ryen Russillo Show, and E:60.
Blinkist is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. Blinkist lets you get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own The Daily Stoic, Yuval Harari’s Sapiens, and more. Go to blinkist.com/stoic, try it free for 7 days, and save 25% off your new subscription, too.
Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training shorts I have ever worn. They are a direct-to-consumer company, no middleman so you get premium fabrics, trims, and techniques that other brands simply cannot afford. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code STOIC to receive 15% off your purchase.
Trade Coffee will match you to coffees you’ll love from 400+ craft coffees, and will send you a freshly roasted bag as often as you’d like. Trade is offering your first bag free and $5 off your bundle at checkout. To get yours, go to drinktrade.com/DAILYSTOIC and use promo code DAILYSTOIC. Take the quiz to start your journey to the perfect cup.
Competitive Cyclist is THE online specialty retailer of road and mountain bikes, components, apparel, and accessories. Go to competitivecyclist.com/DAILYSTOIC and enter promo code DAILYSTOIC to get fifteen percent off your first full-priced purchase plus FREE SHIPPING on orders of $50 or more. Some exclusions apply.
Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/signup
Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.
Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook
Follow Seth Wickersham: Twitter
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday |
| 0:15.4 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage |
| 0:23.5 | Justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.5 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview |
| 0:31.9 | Stoic philosophers. We explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the |
| 0:41.3 | Challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.0 | 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 |
| 1:00.9 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic |
| 1:07.5 | Podcast one of my favorite books of all time and I've raved about it here |
| 1:12.2 | We carry it in my bookstore the painted porch is the cost of these dreams by Wright Thompson |
| 1:17.3 | One of the greatest sports writers of all time certainly of our time |
| 1:23.0 | Come a great dude who I've gotten to know a little bit |
| 1:25.6 | I had him on the daily so podcasts if you didn't listen |
| 1:28.9 | Anyway, it's got an email from him out of the blue a couple of months back and said hey |
| 1:33.5 | You've got to read this new book by my friend Seth Wicker sham about the New England Patriots |
| 1:38.7 | I know that they'd read some of your books and I think you guys would like each other |
| 1:41.6 | I said pretty fucking kidding me of course that sounds like a book designed for me |
| 1:45.8 | So Seth sent me his new book. It's better to be feared the New England Patriots dynasty the pursuit of greatness |
| 1:52.3 | Which I read actually |
| 1:54.4 | While I was doing the launch for courage is calling |
| 1:58.2 | If you watch the vlog of me heading out to LA to do the promo tour |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.