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Steven Pressfield, Robert Greene, Jack Carr, Meg Mason, and Adam Hochschild on Writing

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

What's After the Next Thing?

There's this stoic practice that marks through those kids from epic teetuses as you tuck your child in at night. And so there's a haunted, tragicness to that in that Mark Sreelis loses like six children before they become adulthood. But I don't think that's actually what the exercise was about. What if that is true, you would not rush through the evening. So why are you trying to get this over with? You might as well slow down and be here for the thing while you're in it.

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