Sebastian Junger on the Wonder of Existence and the Complexity of Freedom
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🗓️ 22 May 2021
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Summary
On today’s episode of the podcast Ryan talks to author and filmmaker Sebastian Junger about his new book Freedom which details his 400 mile journey along the railroad lines of the American East Coast, the unforeseen consequences of fighting for freedom, how the fragility of life reveals a wonderment at existence, and more.
Sebastian Junger is the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of The Perfect Storm and Tribe. As an award-winning journalist, a contributing editor to Vanity Fair and a special correspondent at ABC News, he has covered major international news stories around the world. Junger is also a documentary filmmaker whose debut film "Restrepo" was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance.
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| 0:10.5 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:14.8 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:18.7 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice |
| 0:23.9 | Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend |
| 0:27.0 | We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview stoic philosophers. We explore at length |
| 0:35.0 | How these stoic ideas can be applied to our actual lives and the challenging issues of our time |
| 0:42.8 | Here on the weekend when you have a little bit more space when things have slowed down |
| 0:47.8 | 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 |
| 1:02.3 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast |
| 1:06.9 | I was so excited to have today's guest on the podcast. I've been a fan of his work |
| 1:11.6 | Since I don't even remember I almost feels like I was a little kid when I first saw the perfect storm |
| 1:16.4 | When I was starting out as a writer someone gave me this great advice |
| 1:19.8 | They said if you want to be a good writer you have to go live an interesting life you have to do interesting things |
| 1:25.0 | And I think Sebastian's work is a great reflection of that |
| 1:29.7 | He's had hard jobs. He's gone to dangerous places in the world |
| 1:34.2 | He's even this book his new book freedom which just came out is about him walking across the United States with not much more than a few friends and a dog and a backpack and |
| 1:44.4 | And |
| 1:46.0 | He's exploring the idea as as the stokes say not abstractly not theoretically but practically |
| 1:52.4 | You know stokes talk about these sort of pen and ink philosophers |
| 1:55.6 | I'd argue Sebastian is not a pen and ink writer |
| 1:58.8 | He's a writer who go lives the stories and then puts them through |
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