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.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. There's not

a lot of people that I wanted to put in my books that I haven't found an opportunity to, right?

Like I get to read a lot, and this is my job, I get to read a lot, fall in love with interesting

figures or anecdotes or stories, and then I get to work them into the Daily Stoic emails,

I get to work them into my books. And the only person that I really am fascinated by that I've

read quite a bit about that hasn't made as strong of an appearance or a showing in my books as I

would have liked or even just have expected is Richard Feynman. I guess, I guess he's in the

intro or the preface of ego is the enemy, as it's cool, quote, about how the first thing

is that you don't fool yourself and the problem is that you're the easiest person to fool.

Feynman's written a bunch of amazing books. I think we carry, surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman,

the pain of porch. Awesome. Not just, it's just a great book of writing, period, and wisdom,

and insight, period, but that it's written by a physicist, it just makes it even more impressive

because at least for me, because I know nothing of physics or chemistry, my brain fogs over when I

hear anyone talk about it. So recently I was trying to fix that and I went and I wanted to read

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