Zach Braff on Healing and Helping with Art and Stoicism
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🗓️ 25 March 2023
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Ryan speaks with Zach Braff about his new Stoicism-inspired movie A Good Person, how the idea of Amor fati has helped him translate recent personal trauma into art, what he has learned about supporting people who need help in the wake of a friend’s tragedy, and more.
Zach Braff is an actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, and entrepreneur. He is most known for his starring role on the TV comedy Scrubs (2001-2010), for which he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series as well as for three Golden Globe Awards, and in his directorial debut Garden State (2004), which he also wrote and starred in. Zach has also directed a second feature film (Wish I Was Here in 2014) and the hit Apple TV show Ted Lasso (2021) for which he was nominated for a Directors Guild of America Award. His new movie A Good Person is scheduled for release on March 24, 2023.
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| 0:11.2 | Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoke each weekday |
| 0:15.6 | We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stokes |
| 0:19.4 | Something to help you live up to those four stoic virtues of courage justice temperance and wisdom |
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| 1:04.8 | Hey, it's Ryan Holiday welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoke podcast. This is a very |
| 1:10.5 | special episode for me. I've had the sort of surreal experience over the last couple years as the |
| 1:16.0 | Daily Stoke Instagram is blown up as my own Instagram is creeped up north something like 500 and |
| 1:22.8 | whatever thousand followers |
| 1:25.2 | Sometimes I'll get a note from the person who helps me run the accounts. Her name is Chelsea |
| 1:29.1 | It should be like do you know who just started following you today? |
| 1:32.4 | And sometimes it's a people I haven't heard of sometimes it's people with tons and tons of followers |
| 1:37.8 | in some niche and I go that's really cool and then sometimes I go |
| 1:41.8 | You're you're kidding me no way because that person's work has been super influential to me or they occupy some |
| 1:49.3 | nostalgic or significant place in my own growing up |
| 1:53.8 | And so when Chelsea let me know that Zach Braff was following |
| 1:58.8 | That Zach Braff I think was following me personally and not Daily Stoke or something |
| 2:03.0 | I was just like this cannot possibly be real |
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