James Clear, Robert Greene, Brad Stulberg, Tom Nichols, and Julia Baird on the Writer’s Process
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2022
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Today’s episode features some of the best interviews with authors from 2021. Ryan talks to James Clear about how to begin and maintain productive habitual action, Robert Greene about the process of writing some of his bestselling books and his newest book The Daily Laws, Brad Stulberg about practical steps to alleviate the anxiety that comes with the lifelong pursuit of greatness, Tom Nichols about what it means to take your responsibilities as a responsible citizen seriously, and Julia Baird about how the journey towards achieving stillness requires incremental progress.
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| 0:11.0 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday |
| 0:15.3 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:24.1 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics |
| 0:30.5 | We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives |
| 0:40.3 | And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things |
| 0:46.9 | 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 |
| 0:59.9 | Let's say you love sports, but are also you know a busy person you want to know the latest sports news |
| 1:05.4 | But don't want to sit through a two-hour podcast all right |
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| 1:20.8 | Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast as you know |
| 1:26.2 | I love books there what I make when I do for fun |
| 1:30.2 | And then of course if that wasn't enough |
| 1:32.3 | I also have this bookstore the painting porch here in Bastrop, Texas |
| 1:35.6 | Which all of you are welcome at and would like and I'd love to see you at some time, but |
| 1:40.1 | One of the perks of course of the Daily Stoic podcast is that I get to talk to authors of books that I like |
| 1:49.0 | I |
| 1:50.2 | Get to what now as I'm reading particularly new books have just come out. I'm thinking like oh |
| 1:56.0 | I want to ask the author about this right or |
| 2:00.5 | That reminds me of this I want to talk to so and so about that and so one of the perks of doing the podcast now for |
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