Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation

inspired by the ancient Stoics, something to help you live up to those four Stoic virtues

of courage, justice, temperance and wisdom. And then here on the weekend we take a deeper

dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we explore at length how

these Stoic 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 Stoic podcast. Today's

guest is someone I admire a great deal, not just because he got me to consider a different

perspective when I was in my late teens early 20s, not just because I think he's consistently

been an interesting iconoclastic thinker for nearly two decades now, but he has, I think,

comported himself with honesty and integrity. And I think actually a great deal of courage.

He's not everyone's a fan. I'm a fan. I was really looking forward to this conversation

and I was flattered at the end. We finished recording and he says, hey, I meant to say something

that I didn't get to say. And I said, oh, okay, let me hit record again. And he just said

some absolutely kind, but totally unnecessary nice things about Daily Stoic and my work.

And that respect and affinity goes way more in the other direction. Today's guest is an

American philosopher, a neuroscientist, an author, a podcast host. His writings and lectures

cover a wide range of topics from Eastern philosophy to Western philosophy, meditation and current

events and politics is the author of five New York Times bestsellers, the end of faith,

letter to a Christian nation, the moral landscape, free will, lying, waking up and Islam in

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