Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation

inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic-virtues

of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper

dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how

these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things 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.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. You know,

it's funny. I remember it like yesterday. I was writing the proposal for stillness

is the key. And I was just looking for one of the tricky things about writing a book,

writing the book proposals. You have to write a proposal for a book that you have not written.

You have to be like, here's all the people I'm going to talk about. Once you pay me to

go do the research and figure out who and what I'm going to talk about. And so I knew

I wanted to write about this idea of stillness, ad-araxia, apathea, as the Stoic's and

apacurians talk about it. But I didn't know exactly who I wanted to talk about. And I just

needed to sort of put together a collection of potential examples or people. And I was

working with my research assistant and he suggested Mr. Rogers. And he sent me this

like sort of little 10 minute documentary that some person had made about Mr. Rogers.

And I obviously I remember watching Mr. Rogers as a kid, but I didn't know that much more

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