Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient stillics, a short passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you find strength and insight here in everyday life.

And on Wednesdays, we talk to some of our fellow students of

ancient philosophy well-known and obscure fascinating and powerful with them we

discuss the strategies and habits that have helped them become who they are,

and also to find peace and wisdom in their actual lives.

But first, we've got a quick message from one of our sponsors. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to the second part of this. I thought I'd give some other Tim Ferris facts here as I kick off the intro to the second half of the

episode. Number one you may have picked this up in the first episode but

I'm recording here at the painted porch.

The painted porch bookstore would not exist without Tim Ferris

because he's the guy I called when I was thinking about doing it.

The producer of Tim's podcast is someone who I am very fond of who helped research.

I think he started as my research assistant on ego as the enemy.

Fristo is, was my research assistant for many years and then Tim poached him and I was very happy to allow that to happen because he's just an all-around

stand-up fantastic guy and he was destined for bigger and better things.

So that's a, there's a fact there.

And then little known encounter,

Tim and I were both talking at the next web conference in Amsterdam.

This would have been in 2013.

We're sitting down or having dinner or something.

And he says, hey, what are you working on?

And I said, you know, I'm working on this book about stoicism.

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