Is It What You Wanted to Be Like?

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"It's been great. Certainly much worse places to be a to write out a pandamicye," he says. "I think one of the benefits of austin or or texas is, you know, i'm thirty minutes from a major airport ... You could certainly also get that in the middle of south dakota." 'The fantasy of thoreau's walden is made a bit more realistic'...

In this episode of Deep Questions we try something a little different: our first guest!

Bestselling author Ryan Holiday joins me to help answer reader questions, as well as more than a few queries from me. We cover a variety of topics, including his life as a writer living on a ranch, how he fosters discipline, the impact of our diminishing reading culture, and why everyone keeps trying to get me to move to Austin.

Be sure to check out Ryan's new book: LIVES OF THE STOICS (https://dailystoic.com/preorder).

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Thanks to listener Jay Kerstens for the intro music.