Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed

to help you find strength and insight

here in everyday life.

And on Wednesdays, we talk

to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known and obscure, fascinating and powerful.

With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are and also to find

peace and wisdom in their actual lives.

But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stowe

podcast. I'm going to take you way back to the Ryan Holiday who had never read Marxists his meditations.

I've told you this story. I'm at a conference, I'm in college, and I go up to Dr Drew,

if you remember him from MTV in Love Line and I he was speaking at the conference and I asked him for a book recommendation so he recommends the Stoics who recommended Epictetus specifically but I went back to my hotel room and I bought that book and another one that he recommended.

You know what that book was? So book by Edmund Morris called The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt.

It's a three-part series of biographies on Theater Roosevelt and they're

incredible. That was an amazing book. Totally opened up. I never read a

biography like that. I don't know if I'd read any books like that and actually the

story of young Theodore Roosevelt which he tells so brilliantly in that book is the

story that I tell in part three the inner citadel chapter of the obstacle is the way.

And it's a book I think about to this day.

It's a person I've read about many, many times.

And so I don't know how I first heard about today's guest,

Kermit Roosevelt, the third.

Another amazing book where I first heard of Kermit Roosevelt.

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