Nils Parker, Bestselling Writer and Editor Behind Lives of the Stoics, The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic
The Daily Stoic
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4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
On today’s Daily Stoic Podcast, Ryan talks to his longtime writing partner and friend Nils Parker. They discuss Stoicism, their ongoing collaboration with Daily Stoic and Ryan’s other written works, and more.
Nils Parker is one of the most sought after writers and editors in the business, having worked on books that have grossed more than $100M in earnings in the last fifteen years. He and Ryan have been collaborators, friends and business partners.
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| 0:40.2 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:43.2 | From Idaho student killings, the Delphi murders and our recent rundown of the Murdoch saga. |
| 0:49.2 | Last year, we also started a second weekly show, Shorthand, which is just an excuse for us to talk about anything we find interesting because it's our show and we can do what we like. |
| 0:57.2 | We've covered the death of Princess Diana, an unholy Quran written in Saddam Hussein's blood, the gruesome history of European witch hunting, and the very uncomfortable phenomenon of genetic sexual attraction. |
| 1:07.2 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour. |
| 1:12.2 | Like, can someone give consent to be cannibalized? What drives a child to kill? And what's the psychology of a terrorist? |
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| 2:02.2 | Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke Podcast. I don't remember when, when this was, it's probably 14 years ago, maybe 15 years ago, through Tucker Max, who was one of the first sort of writers I worked for. |
| 2:22.2 | I met Neils Parker. Neils Parker had a website. He was one of Interly blog and he was one of Tucker's editors. And as when I interned for Tucker, I met Neils and Neils kind of watched me grow up as a human and as a writer. |
| 2:37.2 | And Neils was instrumental then in editing my first book, Trust Me Am Lang, and his collaborated with me on every single one of my books since then. |
| 2:47.2 | And then when I started Bras check, he was one of my business partners. And then when we started Daily Stoke, which Bras check owns, he was a part of that. So Neils and I have had an ongoing collaboration now of at least 10 years. |
| 3:00.2 | And so almost every word you would have read of mine. Neils has touched or edited or shaped or refined or pushed back on and helped make it into what it was. |
| 3:11.2 | And Neils is a great writer in his own right. He and I have collaborated on many other books, which you have read. I'm sure that you don't know we were responsible for is one of the things Bras check does is a lot of ghost tried and we sold proposals for for big podcast hosts and. |
| 3:29.2 | Celebrities and athletes and we've written their books we've marketed their books. So he and I have this sort of longstanding kind of collaborative relationship that has been incredibly fruitful and rewarding for me. |
| 3:43.2 | We've been through failed companies together and conflict together and all sorts of ridiculous stuff together. |
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