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Hello and welcome back to practical stoicism. I'm your host, Tanner Campbell. And before we get

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I'm doing here seven days a week. Now, I thought I was going to get an opportunity to air a conversation

between myself and Eric, and by that I mean Eric DeMott, not yesterday's guest, the gentleman who does the

practical cynicism segments. But I forgot he's traveling this week. I got my dates mixed up, so I'm

kind of unprepared for today. So I wouldn't ordinarily do this, but because I don't have anything

prepared, I'm going to read the first two chapters of my book to give you kind of a taste of

what's coming. Again, I wouldn't ordinarily do this because it feels very self-promotional,

and I guess by its nature it's going to have to be because it's a book I'm writing. So obviously

I'll be selling it. But I'm just caught a little unprepared due to my own poor planning

this week. So I hope it

doesn't bother you to hear these first two chapters. If you'd rather skip it, hey, I get it. No big deal.

The name of the book, if you have missed it, is Living Well, Stoic Ideas for a Better Life. If you want to

get on the notification list for when this book comes out, you can go to livingwellbook.com and add your name to that list. The only kind of

emails you're going to get from that list, by the way, have to do with the book and nothing else.

I don't use it for some kind of scammy marketing or anything like that. So feel comfortable putting

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