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.

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Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. As we wind up the

year, I like to do some best of episodes, things worth revisiting, hearing again, Stoic

advice from people who have been there, who have their own spin or ideas or takes on it,

which is what we're going to talk about in today's episode. I'm bringing you Steven

Presfield who's talking about overcoming the dreaded resistance building discipline and

why that's so important. We're going to talk to the novelist Meg Mason about how you develop

your taste in her beautiful book, Sorrow and Bliss. We're going to talk about the novelist

and former Navy seal Jack Carr about how your character impacts your work. Talk to one

of my heroes, the great Robert Green on how often we take the path of least resistance

and his work on the sublime. We're going to talk to the activist and historian Adam

Haaschild about how our understanding of history can inspire us to change the future.

Just a reminder, the Daily Stoic New Year, New Year challenge is up. People have been

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