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Elliot Ackerman on Storytelling and the Cyclical Nature of History

The Daily Stoic

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What I Learned in the Military?

I approach it like I approach certain, uh, well, there's that I approach it sort of like with a discipline. There will be a thousand words that are written today, whether they're good or bad, they shall be written. And when I'll sit there and I'll stare at my computer, you know, and I'll not get up until the task is complete. When I was in the military, I think that was sort of how I approached, you know,. I don't know, fitness or unit readiness ... It was with that type of kind of discipline that could feel a little monastic at times. But that actually makes me happy, you know? Like I feel

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