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🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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“When he was young, James Mattis hitchhiked to San Francisco to meet Eric Hoffer, the philosopher most famous for his book, The True Believer, and as Mattis said, “Eric was the one who told me, ‘Make sure you write down everything interesting you find,’ and I have ever since.”

Ryan explains how you turn the words and phrases you come across into actions, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today
0:12.0	Welcome to the Daily Stoke podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes
0:19.2	Illustrated with stories from history
0:21.1	current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week
0:26.0	We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoke intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on
0:33.1	Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing
0:37.7	So let's get into it
0:42.6	When he was a young man the future general James Mattis hitch typed to San Francisco to make Eric Hoffer
0:49.2	The philosopher most famous for his book the true believer and as Mattis said
0:53.6	Eric was the one who told me make sure you write down everything interesting you find and I have ever since
1:01.6	It's wonderful advice and we're lucky for instance that two thousand years ago a student named Aryan sat in on the lectures
1:09.3	In necopolis on the coast of Greece and decided that he would jot down the sayings that he heard his teacher epic teedis say
1:16.8	We're lucky that Marcus are really has jotted down his own thoughts because that's how meditations survives to us
1:22.4	We're lucky that Seneca chose to write those letters to lecilius for without them not only would we be without his wisdom
1:29.6	But we'd be without many of the quotes from the early stoics that are preserved only because he wrote them down
1:36.0	General Mattis has followed Hoffer's advice his entire life one of his former speech writers
1:41.7	Recently described the incredible treasure trove of wisdom that Mattis had accumulated to bring his speech writers up to speed
1:49.0	Mattis once gave them access to his closet there the speech writer records
1:54.2	He kept many years of meticulous notes in black Moschina notebooks from his time in uniform
2:00.5	Each page included a small printout of his daily schedule along with handwritten notes
2:06.4	lined up on the shelf above them were three special journals in old worn three-ring binders
2:12.2	These he referred to as his books of wisdom this treasure trove held decades of personal thoughts
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