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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare, we think deeply about the challenging issues of our time.

And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not rushing to worker to get the kids to school, when we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

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Hey, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. Today's guest is this is a great. I'm really excited to do this episode.

This is someone who was incredibly formative in my development as a writer. In fact, now that I think about it, they were they were the first writer that I ever met. I'm talking about the novelist Susan straight when I was a freshman at UC Riverside, I was enrolled in this honors program and they they brought us out early in the summer.

And they gave us a book to read beforehand. They gave us the novel high wire moon by Susan straight and then Susan who was a professor at UCR came and talked to us and it was just an incredible experience to meet her to read a great novel and it is a good knowledge you read it if you haven't.

And then meet and see the human being who wrote it and I remember I dropped it in the swimming pool over the summer. And so my copy was all water logged and not not super in great shape and she's teasing me about it.

And that was the first writer that I ever met and I think that helped so the seed that allowed me to go on and become a writer. It was again, it's a great novel is nominated for National Book Award. I highly recommend it. She's written a bunch of other great novels. I've been in Saros kitchen and looked out all the pots, blacker than the thousand midnight take one candle in light of room.

But I got reconnected with professor straight. She corrected me when I called her that recently. She said, appears now, but I feel more comfortable calling her professor straight.

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