How Country Living Can Improve Your Life
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 8 January 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Ryan celebrates country living with this presentation of the first in a four-part reading of MD Usher’s translation of Princeton University Press’s How to Be a Farmer: An Ancient Guide to Life on the Land. This excerpt examines the benefits of living with nature, dealing with good and bad days on the farm, being neighborly in the country and more.
Ryan’s conversation with MD Usher can be heard here
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:08.2 | On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic |
| 0:13.3 | texts, audiobooks that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom |
| 0:21.6 | that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend. |
| 0:25.6 | We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that |
| 0:30.2 | you're able to apply it to your actual life. |
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| 0:47.2 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. |
| 0:50.4 | Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. |
| 0:53.6 | I'm here recording this in my office. |
| 0:55.5 | I'm going to go for a run in a minute. |
| 0:57.3 | And then I have to get home before it gets dark to hop in my ATV, hook up the trailer, |
| 1:03.9 | and put out some hay for my cows. |
| 1:06.8 | It's funny. |
| 1:07.8 | I was just at this thing for my son's school and we knew a couple other people who live |
| 1:13.2 | on ranges out here and all we were talking about is the price of hay and did they have a |
| 1:18.4 | good hay guy and how much were they paying per round bail? |
| 1:23.8 | Big round bails that weigh probably a thousand pounds. |
| 1:28.8 | They went from 50, 60 bucks a bail to 120, 130 bucks a bail. |
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