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. 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.

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.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

I have this, I sort of have this dual experience, right? I hear from lots of random people,

I'll get recognized and go, oh, total strangers will come up to me on the street and say that

they read my books or they watch the YouTube videos. And then every once in a while I get like an

Instagram DM or a tweet or I'll read it in a news article or something, like some very well-known

person is talking about one of the books. And it's always really cool. And whether it's a regular

person or some artists that sold millions of records or some billion, I usually go like,

how did you find Stoicism? That's like, how did you hear about it? And usually what happened is

someone was, they were going through something and someone told them to read Marx Relius and they

maybe they struggled and so they ended up starting with the obstacles the way. They were going

through something and somebody gave them the Daily Stoic. Usually it's just like how I found

Stoicism, right? I've told this story before, but I was in college and I was at this event in

Los Angeles and went up to the speaker and I said, hey, do you have any book recommendations for

a kid like me? They recommended Epic Titus. I ended up reading Marx Relius and my life was

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