Lt. David Carey On Surviving As A POW W/ Admiral James Stockdale (with Stoicism)
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🗓️ 26 July 2023
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Lieutenant David Carey in the first of a two-part interview about his incredible experiences serving in Vietnam as a fighter pilot and being shot down and captured by North Vietnamese forces, how 2,022 days in captivity led to him embracing the teachings of Epictetus, why the community that he and his fellow POWs formed in prison saved them from depression, how he has been using his experiences to help others ever since, and more.
David Carey is a retired Navy Lieutenant Commander who served in the Vietnam War, as well as an author, motivational speaker, consultant, and trainer. After being deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany in 1966, he was forced to eject over North Vietnam and taken as a Prisoner of War. After serving 2,022 days in the camp, David was released during Operation Homecoming in 1973 and was awarded the Legion of Merit with Valor. Since his retirement from the Navy in 1986, David has dedicated his work to sharing his experiences in the hopes of helping others through his speaking and training engagements and his book The Ways We Choose, Lessons for Life from a POW's Experience. David’s work can be found at davecarey.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired |
| 0:12.6 | by the ancient Stoics, a short passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength |
| 0:18.5 | and insight here in everyday life. |
| 0:21.6 | And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of ancient philosophy, well-known |
| 0:27.5 | and obscure, fascinating, and powerful. |
| 0:30.7 | With them, we discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are |
| 0:35.6 | and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives. |
| 0:40.1 | But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. |
| 0:44.3 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday, welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:03.6 | I think I've talked about this before. |
| 1:05.0 | You may have seen or listened to, as I think we put some of them on this podcast, the talks |
| 1:10.3 | I've been doing at the U.S. Naval Academy over the last year, year and a half. |
| 1:15.2 | That all came about because I have been a fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical |
| 1:21.5 | Leadership, which is based there at the Naval Academy. |
| 1:25.0 | It's a very important part of Admiral Stockdale's legacy. |
| 1:31.8 | Someone we've talked about, I wrote about him in the obstacles the way. |
| 1:35.0 | One of the great modern practitioners slash philosophers in the great tradition of the |
| 1:41.8 | Stoics who didn't just talk about these ideas, but tried to live them. |
| 1:46.0 | As Stockdale himself said, tested the ideas in the laboratory of human experience. |
| 1:51.9 | I've gotten to know the folks there at the Leadership Center quite a bit. |
| 1:55.2 | They've been very helpful on the books that I've writing. |
| 1:57.5 | I've been writing and I wrote Courage. |
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