Major General Dan Caine on Becoming a Great Leader

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🗓️ 9 October 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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On today’s podcast, Ryan talks to Major General Dan Caine about the importance of defining success before you set out to try to solve a problem, the responsibility of leaders to be as prepared as possible, the ineffectiveness of holding others to the standards you hold yourself to, becoming a lifelong student of leadership, and more.

Maj. Gen. J. Daniel Caine is the Director of Special Programs and the Department of Defense Special Access Program Central Office (DoD SAPCO), the Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. He has commanded a joint special operations air directorate, a joint task force and a group. Maj. Gen. Caine is a Command Pilot with more than 2,800 hours in the F-16 and has served as a Joint Terminal Attack Controller in a special mission unit assigned to the U.S. Special Operations Command.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:11.0	Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic each weekday
0:15.3	We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics
0:19.2	Something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage justice
0:24.1	Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics
0:30.5	We interview Stoic philosophers we explore at length how these Stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives
0:40.3	And the challenging issues of our time here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things
0:46.9	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
1:01.7	Hey, it's Ryan welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast
1:07.8	One of the best experiences I've had in all of the cool stuff
1:12.2	We've done with the Daily Stoic over the years has been over the last
1:15.8	Nine or so weeks this leadership challenge that we did we call that the Daily Stoic leadership challenge
1:22.2	You know a lot of our challenges been like 10 days or five days or 14 days or 21 days
1:27.4	But this was a nine week challenge originally I thought I was gonna be six weeks
1:31.5	We ended up having so much good stuff it became nine weeks basically an email every day for nine weeks
1:36.5	The best Stoic thinking on how to be a leader because although not all Stoics are leaders
1:43.0	All the major Stoics of history were leaders marks to really is Sennaka
1:49.1	Musone is Rufus
1:50.9	Zeno
1:52.1	These were people who made things who founded things who led people who made the hard decisions of
1:57.6	Leadership and and one of the coolest parts about the challenges we did these deep dives these hour conversations
2:03.8	With me and real leaders in different
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