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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 Russian to worker to get the kids to school.

And 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, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of The Daily Stood Podcast. Here we are. And I wanted to talk today about someone who I got to mention briefly in the new book, Lives of the Stoics, but we decided in that book to sort of cut off at Marcus Aurelius.

First up, there's a perfectness of starting with Zeno ending with Marcus Realeus. You got Zeta A, so to speak, but just decided to profile the ancient Stoics in that book.

Were there Stoics after Marcus Reus? Absolutely. Are there even modern recent-day Stoics? Yes. The most impressive and awe-inspiring is probably Admiral James Stockdale. I've been lucky enough to speak at the Stockdale Center at the US Naval Academy a few times. I'm actually a fellow there at the Stockdale Center.

But I didn't get to profile Stockdale the way I wanted to in the book. I mentioned briefly in the Epictetus chapter in a few other places, but what I wanted to do today was give you a glimpse into the life and philosophy of the great James Stockdale.

What we could learn from him, I call him in today's episode, not a prisoner of war, although he famously was a POW in the Vietnam War, but a prisoner at war. He was at war against fate, at war against adversity, at war against his own limitations, at war against doubt and fear, at war against pain and despair.

And he was largely victorious in those battles and I think that makes him a particularly awe-inspiring figure. And so here we are today looking at the incredible Stoicism of the great James Stockdale.

On September 9th, 1965, James Stockdale's A4 Skyhawk was shot down over Vietnam. He was taken prisoner by the North Vietnamese and spent the next seven years being tortured and subjected to unimaginable loneliness and terror.

But fortunately, three years earlier, he was recommended a book, that book, he says, saved his life.

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