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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday

We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes

Something to help you live up to those four Stoke virtues of courage justice

Temperance and wisdom and then here on the weekend

We take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoke philosophers. We explore at length

How these Stoke 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 welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoke podcast

One of the questions I get the most obviously from podcast listeners is like what are the best audiobooks of the Stokes

Because there's not that many great options obviously marks realist did not record his own audiobook

For instance the translation I love of meditations. It was published in like 2003 maybe

Maybe earlier. So like audiobooks weren't even really a thing

So there's not a great selection and that's why I was so excited when a few years ago

My friend Tim Ferris brought out the Dow of Seneca an audiobook that's essentially the best of

Seneca's letters. I recommend this to people all the time

Who maybe are more listeners than readers and I said hey Tim could I run some of my

Favorite letters from your audiobook on the podcast?

Absolutely and you can get the PDF of these letters totally for free if you go to Tim.blog slash Seneca

Again, I think this is a great public service. He's done in today's excerpt

Seneca is talking about why we're here

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