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,

audiobooks that we like here or 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.

Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

So when I was writing The Obstacles Away, towards the end, I wanted to talk about people who had been influenced by

Stoic philosophy. And when you're writing a book, you never know when you're looking for one

thing, what you might end up discovering and how you might chance upon something that can

sort of change the course of your own intellectual journey, your ethical journey. So anyways, I was looking for people

who had written about Stoicism's influence on them. And I was searching through Google books,

doing some keyword search. And I found this old book that had been written in the, I don't know,

early 1900s by this woman, Beatrice Webb, who was a social activist and, uh, sort of political thinger that I'd

never heard of. And she's raving about the influence that Marcus Aurelius's and his meditations

had had on her life. And I never heard of this person. So I did what most people do,

which is I looked her up on Wikipedia. and I mentioned her briefly there in the, in the

afterward of obstacles away. And so then this would have been in 2012, 2012, 2013, flash forward

2023 and 24 when I'm writing right Thing Right Now. And I decide to read more about

Beatrice Webb. And I get her fascinating memoir. And I read this story that becomes a chapter in the book

about how, as a young woman, she goes and lives with essentially a working-class

family in Britain, someone very outside her social political class circle, to see how the

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