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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Sundays, we take a deeper dive into these ancient topics with excerpts from the Stoic texts,

audio books that we like here recommend here at Daily Stoic and other long form wisdom that you can chew on on this relaxing weekend.

We hope this helps shape your understanding of this philosophy and most importantly that you're able to apply it to your actual life.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I was just talking about this. I just recorded an episode of the podcast with Martha Nowzbaum.

It was a great translator and scholar on the Stoics and we were talking about what the Stoic said was one thing, but how they actually lived was another.

Who were they? How did they apply these ideas? It's one thing to say, don't be overcome by your emotions.

Then you look at someone like Cicero and he loses a child. How could he not be affected by that? And was he affected by that?

Do we misunderstand him when the Stoics say don't be overwhelmed by your emotions that they mean feel it to a certain degree?

By actually looking at who the Stoics were, we get a better understanding of what they said. Conversely, we understand where they were just saying things and then whether they lived up to them.

There's something obviously I think about a lot myself. It's easy to write about these ideas, but living them is what's hard.

That's obviously the idea behind lives of the Stoics, the art of living from Xeno to Marx's realist, which is a book I wrote with my collaborator Steve Hanselman a couple years ago.

And I wanted to bring you a chunk of that book today because it starts us at the start of stoicism with Xeno, who I call Xeno the prophet, the founder of Stoicism.

You wonder why it's called stoicism and not Xenoism. Well, we'll get into that in the chapter, but basically it's because stoicism starts on the stoa poquile, the painted porch, also then in my bookstore.

That's where Xeno taught. And I think to his credit, but also to the credit of the school, it wasn't about celebrating the one dude. It was about celebrating the ideas that happened on that porch.

And I'm going to bring you today my essay, my biography of Xeno, a city, a founder of stoicism.

We're going to go all the way back to Greece, the time of Alexander, the great, and we're going to start where stoicism started. So you can check out lives of the Stoics anywhere, books or sold to get signed copies in the Daily Stoics store.

And here at the painted porch that modern stoa poquile, if you will. And I hope you enjoy this episode and enjoy learning a little bit more about Xeno.

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