Kathryn Schulz on Misinformation and Coping with Grief | The Strong Do What They Can but the Weak Must…

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🗓️ 2 March 2022

⏱️ 89 minutes

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Summary

Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to Kathryn Schulz about her new book Lost & Found: A Memoir, the perpetual disconnect between reality and rhetoric, the importance of confronting darkness and dealing with grief, and more.

Kathryn Schulz is a staff writer at The New Yorker and the author of Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error. She won a National Magazine Award and a Pulitzer Prize in 2015 for “The Really Big One,” an article about seismic risk in the Pacific Northwest. Her most recent book is Lost & Found, a memoir that grew out of “Losing Streak,” which was originally published in The New Yorker and later anthologized in The Best American Essays. Her other essays and reporting have appeared in The Best American Science and Nature Writing, The Best American Travel Writing, and The Best American Food Writing. A native of Ohio, she lives with her family on the Eastern Shore of Maryland.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired
0:10.2	by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength
0:16.1	and insight here in everyday life.
0:19.2	And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known
0:25.1	and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. With them, we discuss the strategies and habits
0:30.5	that have helped them become who they are and also to find peace and wisdom in their
0:36.4	actual lives. But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors.
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1:01.3	The strong do what they can, but the week must.
1:05.4	Twenty five hundred years ago, Thucydides laid it down as a law of geopolitics and, unfortunately,
1:12.5	of life. The strong do what they can, he said, while the week struggle as they must.
1:19.5	Is this reality that explains why great powers exert their will on the world, often without
1:24.8	consequences, and why victims, so often are stuck, the consequences?
1:31.8	While we often focus on the fatalism of the first half of this proverb, the Stoic
1:35.8	would point us to the second half for there is agency and inspiration, encourage in it.
1:41.8	Was that not the role picked up by Cato and the rest of the Stoic opposition in Rome as
1:46.1	they fought against tyranny, outvoted, and outgunned, and out of time?
1:50.8	Was that not the fate of Stockdale in the prison camp in Vietnam struggling valiantly against
1:56.4	his captors?
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