Garland Robinette On The Stoic Principle That Shapes His Incredible Life
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Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Garland Robinette about the brain-altering effects of chasing dopamine, how he has coped with his morally injurious experience serving in Vietnam, his movie-like life and career path, why working in broadcast forced him to let go of his ego, the deep sense of peace and purpose that painting gives him, and more.
Garland Robinette is an artist and former journalist, television news anchor, radio host, entrepreneur, and janitor. Born in deep Louisiana bayou country, Garland dropped out of college and joined the Navy to serve in Vietnam. Just thirty days after returning home from an intense deployment, he found work as a janitor at the New Orleans TV station WWL-TV Channel 4, and four months later, with no experience, he was hired as the news anchor and investigative reporter. After a twenty-year stint which saw him marry his co-host, Garland left news to form his own company, which, after a highly successful run, he then quit to spend more time with his daughter. Finally, he spent ten years hosting a radio program that brought him national acclaim for his coverage on Hurricane Katrina. Now in his seventies, Garland spends his time indulging in his passion and twilight career: painting. You can follow Garland’s work on Instagram @thegarlandrobinette.
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| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:15.6 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.4 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
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| 0:35.6 | How these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:43.4 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:48.9 | 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 |
| 0:57.7 | may bring |
| 1:05.4 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
| 1:10.1 | Some of you know this and you don't I moved to New Orleans to write what became my first book |
| 1:15.9 | I don't know exactly why I picked New Orleans. I wanted to live someone some were very different |
| 1:21.5 | Then where I'd grown up then where I went to college then where I was working |
| 1:25.4 | And I just wanted to live a writer's life in New Orleans seem like a place you could |
| 1:30.1 | Live cheaply going long walks be surrounded by history and characters and |
| 1:35.5 | one of the great |
| 1:37.5 | New Orleans characters is actually today's guest if you saw Spike Lee's documentary |
| 1:43.4 | When the levees broke you might know the named Garland Robinette |
| 1:48.2 | If you've seen the movie anchor man |
| 1:49.7 | Well, you kind of know his story because it feels like they ripped a bunch of headlines straight from Garland's life |
| 1:55.4 | I'll give you that sort of top line of it. He's |
| 1:59.1 | Born basically to swamp people he becomes an orphan you get strapped it. He fights in Vietnam |
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