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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four

Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom, and temperance. And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

We have the time to sing to go for a walk to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. My guest today is one of my favorite people in the whole world. Rich Rule, endurance athlete, vegan, bestselling author, amazing podcaster.

I've had an amazing time, some of the longest best conversations I've ever had in my life with Rich Rule over the years at his amazing house in California. Unfortunately didn't get to do that one at his place. We had to do it remotely, which you're seeing right now or you're listening right now.

Rich has a new book out called Voicing Change, and it's sort of a best of greatest hits book, a coffee table book built around the podcast. I contributed a special essay to it, a bunch of awesome people. I know did as well.

I think many times Rich does something, you know, it's going to be thoughtful, you know, it's going to be wise, you know, it's going to give you a different perspective on things. And I think most of all, it's going to be really inspiring a couple years ago. I was teasing Rich on Instagram, like I worked out early and I said, take that ritual.

He proceeded to I think swim 3600 yards three times further than I had swam just to rub it in my face. Rich Rule is a machine. He was the first person to do an Iron Man on consecutive days of every single one of the Hawaiian Islands.

He did it as a vegan, which is just incredible. If you know anything about endurance athletes, he's really thoughtful. He's always compassionate always makes me think his father as it happens is also an amazing writer. He wrote a brilliant book about George Marshall, which I've recommended on the reading list news that are so check that out as well.

And I think that's really where change comes from. And that's where I think Rich is coming from in this new book. So if you check out that new book at Rich Rule.

Epic T2 Squad Socrates, he says some people delight in improving their farm, I delight improving myself. And I think that's really where change comes from. And that's where I think Rich is coming from in this new book. So you can check out that new book at richroll.com. You can check out the podcast there or anywhere you get your podcast.

And you can also check out this on YouTube. You can check out our interviews on YouTube as well, which is awesome. And I'm going to have another episode with Rich either before or after this. I'm not sure on the order. Rich was nice enough to interview me for LA live talks.

And so that will be coming soon. We did an event for lives of the stoics, which was supposed to be in person, but again was remote. So that's awesome. And coming up as well. And I can't wait for you to listen to this. My interview with Rich Rule in coming soon. Rich Rule interview and me and enjoy.

So how you hold not how's it been.

Overall, I would say that I'm better than most. You know, I get hit with waves of, you know, mild despair from time to time. I don't like not being able to travel. I don't like not being able to plan adventures, the uncertainty of all of it.

And then trying to parent to teenage daughters through all of this says definitely challenged my dad tool kit.

Yeah, and I feel like I have two sort of warning signs that friends may be going off the deep end. Number one is, is I hear they've started writing fiction. That's always something.

And then the other is, are they growing a beard? And so I just thought I'd check in. Yeah, I started growing this beard. The day that the NBA canceled its season.

Well, basically like, all right, well, I'm in home now. Here's a, here's a moment. So let's do this. I'm now entering Jack Dorsey, Respeutant Territory or David Letterman Territory. I don't know how much longer I can hang with this, but it's been kind of a fun little thing.

It actually hit me this morning that my son, my youngest son has now been a lot half of his life has been spent in some sort of quarantine pandemic.

That's so crazy. What is his awareness around all of it?

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