Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic podcast.

On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic

texts, audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic, and other long form

wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy, and most importantly,

that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

Thank you for listening.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday.

Welcome to a weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

I am recording this from my closet in Texas, not at the office today, and although I am

in Texas now, the episode I am bringing you came from Los Angeles, where I just spent

the last month or so with my family, saw some relatives, saw some old friends, kids went

to summer camp when you escape the heat, it was an awesome trip, got a lot of editing

and writing done.

But most importantly, I got to drive over and see one of my favorite people in the entire

world, someone who's changed my life in so many ways, the one and only Robert Green,

brought back some memories that used to drive over to Robert Green's house when I lived

in Los Angeles many years ago, and I'd picking up a book or dropping off a book or some

papers, something that he had me research or do, and then I might hopefully get a minute

or two to ask him a couple of questions, ask him for some advice.

And that's sort of what today's episode is.

He and I sat down and talked for about 30 minutes, about stoicism, about philosophy,

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