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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes.

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom.

And then here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics.

We interview Stoke philosophers, we explore at length how these Stoke ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time.

Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things 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.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast.

Writing for me has hit a little bit of a snag. I think I broke my middle finger playing basketball over the weekend.

So I haven't been able to sign as many books downstairs at the store and my typing has been a little screwed up.

I've got these two fingers taped together, but it's funny. It takes me back to when I broke my arm writing my first book.

I might have already told this story before, but I broke my arm while I was writing, trust me, I'm lying.

And it set the book back in quite a bit, but it actually eventually ends up queuing up the obstacle as the way because the walks that I ended up taking the extra time that I ended up taking because of it.

Opened up all these wonderful little avenues. I guess my point is you never know where life is going to take you.

And that takes me to today's guest. I'm writing now. The book that is tied up a little bit is my third book in this virtue series. I'm writing about justice.

So when a book arrived, the 10th anniversary edition of the Life You Can Save by the philosopher Peter Singer.

I was like, not only do I need to read this book and not only was I planning to read this book, but he is someone I absolutely want to talk to on the podcast because he's one of the foremost thinkers in the world about these ideas, one of the most influential philosophers in the world.

You know, the stokes turn up their noses at the so called pen and ink philosophers. Well, Peter Singer is not just a professor and a teacher of philosophy, but his philosophy has guided billions of dollars of aid that's been given to people all over the world.

It's changed how many people think about animal rights, whether they eat meat, don't eat meat animal welfare.

And he's one of the pioneers of what they call effective altruism, which thinks about effectively doing good.

How one can do the most good with the good or the donations that they make.

It's just an all around fascinating person. And I think put his money where his mouth is quite literally.

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