The Daily Stoic

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

Jan 7, 2023

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Episode guests

Highlights

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Embracing the Process and Avoiding Overthinking

01:15

The Key to Happiness: Being Free of Passion, but Full of Love

00:50

The lesson from a stoic practice on not rushing through life

01:27

You're a Professional, You're a Writer, Sit Down and Write

01:17

Introduction

4min

The Daily Stoic Podcast - Is This Good?

2min

Is the War in 65?

2min

Is There a Resurrection?

2min

Do You Have Time?

2min

Going Slow, Not Racing

2min

What's After the Next Thing?

2min

You Can't Go Around Expecting Plato's Republic

3min

Just Because Your Cause Is Right, Always Appeal to Self-Interest

2min

10.

You Know, It Takes Effort to Get Outside of Yourself

2min

11.

Love Is Not Anger, You're Not Jealous, You Want Retribution

3min

12.

The Dalai Lama's Guide to Happiness

2min

13.

Theodore Roosevelt and the Military

2min

14.

You're a Writer, Sit Down and Do the Work

2min

15.

When You're Not Writing, It's Not Working, Right?

2min

16.

What Was Your Passion for a While?

4min

17.

How to Start the Transition Before You Leave the Military, Right?

2min

18.

Sitting Down and Writing a Novel

3min

19.

Writing Is a Science and an Art

2min

20.

You Be Mother

3min

21.

I've Done It, I'm Not a Writer, I Don't Know What I Should Be Doing

2min

22.

Is There a Trend in Pastell Covers?

2min

23.

You Don't Want to Be Difficult

2min

24.

What Happened May 22, 1787?

6min

25.

The Slavery Campaign in England

3min

26.

Is It Right or Wrong to Own Another Human Being?

2min

27.

The Daily Stoke Podcast

3min

Ryan looks back on some of the best interviews of 2022 about writing. Featuring Steven Pressfield on what it takes to build discipline and why it’s so important, Robert Greene on our natural tendency as humans to take the path of least resistance, Jack Carr on how your character impacts your work, Meg Mason on how important it is to develop taste as a writer, and Adam Hochschild on how history can inform the push for change in the present.

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