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 Holliday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I remember

it quite clearly because it was totally unexpected and very cool, but I was in New York City.

I was doing the launch of conspiracy. I met my friend Casey Neistat at Chelsea Pears,

and we went for like a six or seven mile run up the side of Manhattan to the USS Enterprise.

That's the one there we turned around. There's a great little run and I could see I was carrying

my phone because I had to meet up with them and I didn't want to get lost and blah, blah, blah.

I could see stuff was like going off on my phone and I was getting a bunch of text and messages,

but I didn't check them. I try not to check the phone in the morning. I try especially when I am

in the midst of a book project or a launch, not to let news in for concern that it could be really

bad news that knocks me out of the headspace. I want to be or good news that sucks me into a

bad place as far as the ego goes or just distracts me. So I didn't check it. I get back to my hotel

and there's like a ton of texts from basically everyone I know in publishing because

conspiracy had been somewhat unexpectedly reviewed in the New York Times and it was a crazy review,

like a crazy good review. It's very unusual to get a review in the Times. It's certainly unusual

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