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The Daily Stoic

Steven Rinella on Hunting, Self-Discipline, and Finding Balance

The Daily Stoic

Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures

Education, Business, Ryan Holiday, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Stoicism, 694393, Stoic Philosophy, Daily Stoic, Self-improvement, Stoic

4.55.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Ryan talks to Steven Rinella about his new book Outdoor Kids in an Inside World: Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature (which you can pick up at the Painted Porch), the temperance that is required to be a great hunter, how to find the right balance between pursuing your purpose and spending time with family, and more.

Steve Rinella, from his books to his groundbreaking show MeatEater, has made hunting and nose-to-tail wild game gourmet cooking popular from New York City to Hollywood. Thanks in large part to Steve’s humor and extensive historical and anatomical knowledge, MeatEater is one of the top “reality” shows not just in outdoor media, but arguably across all media combined. As a writer, TV host, and now podcaster Steve and the MeatEater crew are as trail blazing as they come. We carry one of Steve’s books, American Buffalo, here at the Painted Porch Bookshop. His most recent book, released just this week, Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, offers practical advice for getting kids radically engaged with nature in a muddy, thrilling, hands-on way, with the ultimate goal of helping them see their own place within the natural ecosystem.

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1:04.0

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.

1:26.0

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.

1:43.0

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.

2:01.0

Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to a weekend episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. Today's guest is someone whose books I just adore. I am a huge fan. I reread one of them earlier this year. We sell like five different of them in the painted porch.

2:22.0

And I met him as we talk about in today's episode at a coffee shop in New York City. We were linked by a bookage that we both both know. And I've more recently become not just a huge fan, but it's like his works become an integral part of my daily routine because my five-year-old son who you will hear at the beginning of this episode is obsessed with Stephen Rinala.

2:47.0

YouTube suggested one of his videos. It's also a show in Netflix called Meet Eater. And he's just one of the great hunters. You wouldn't think you could be like the LeBron James of Hunting, but that's what Steve Rinala is. But he's also America's great philosopher of hunting and outdoors and conservationism.

3:06.0

And also an incredible entrepreneur. There's a great New York Times piece about him recently, which you can check out. Anyways, my son watches one of these videos. He picks one every night and we watch it together. He usually almost always falls asleep before it ends. So it might take three nights to get all the way through.

3:22.0

But he just loves Stephen Rinala's stuff. There's one where he hunts a Havillina. There's one where he hunts a Buffalo. There's one where he hunts a mountain lion. There's some where he hunts does. Turkey's squirrels. Grizzly bears. Anything you can imagine. He is hunted.

3:38.0

I know hunting isn't for everyone. I happen to live out in the country. I hunt on a regular basis. Nothing exotic. Just, you know, white tail or rabbit sometimes or hogs.

3:48.0

But I think there's a ton of stoic lessons in Steve's work. And I think you're going to like this interview because I was just reading his new book. Sorry, the first book I mentioned that I love his book, American Buffalo in search of a lost icon is I think one of the great books ever written about America, about the West, about hunting, about nature.

4:11.0

It's just an incredible story. Absolutely written. I reread it earlier this year. I love it. We carried the Pandaport. You have to read American Buffalo. Seriously, one of my all-time favorite books.

4:21.0

But his new book was perfect. We were just on a trip to Big Bend. We took the kids out there for four nights. Just did some hiking and swimming and observing nature. And we went to this ghost town out there called Terlingua.

4:37.0

And just spent some time in one of America's great national parks. I think one of the most underrated of the national parks, the only national park in Texas. And it's incredibly huge, incredibly far away. Also, as it happens, the scene of one of my son's favorite Steve Rinalov videos.

4:55.0

We're Hans Havillina by Bo. And we talk about this a little bit in today's episode. Anyways, his new book Outdoor Kids in an Inside World, Getting Your Family Out of the House and Radically Engaged with Nature is a fantastic book.

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