Donald Robertson

I'm going to have to massively abbreviate some of his arguments and just give like key selections out of them. And I'm going to have to figure out ways to, you know, to kind of simplify the history of the Peloponnesian war. So, You know, I'm kind of surprised that I managed to compress all of that into one book. But, you know, I thought very long and hard about how to do it.

And, you know, there was a lot of planning that went into it. I think I put four times as much work into this book as I put into the preceding How to Think Like a Roman Emperor book.

And, you know, there was a lot of planning that went into it. I think I put four times as much work into this book as I put into the preceding How to Think Like a Roman Emperor book.

And, you know, there was a lot of planning that went into it. I think I put four times as much work into this book as I put into the preceding How to Think Like a Roman Emperor book.

Yeah, there's really frustrating things about the life of Socrates. So this thing about going to Delphi and the pronouncement is presented as a key moment in his life. We've really got no... We don't know for certain when it happened, right? So for instance, we don't know if it happened before or after other key events in his life, and then it would change the whole narrative.

Yeah, there's really frustrating things about the life of Socrates. So this thing about going to Delphi and the pronouncement is presented as a key moment in his life. We've really got no... We don't know for certain when it happened, right? So for instance, we don't know if it happened before or after other key events in his life, and then it would change the whole narrative.

Yeah, there's really frustrating things about the life of Socrates. So this thing about going to Delphi and the pronouncement is presented as a key moment in his life. We've really got no... We don't know for certain when it happened, right? So for instance, we don't know if it happened before or after other key events in his life, and then it would change the whole narrative.

So with things like that, you just have to go, we could write an academic history where we argue about the possible dates, but in order to write a movie, you'd have to go, we have to pick a date, got to pick one. It could be like one of like maybe three different, you've just got to choose one and go with it in order to be able to tell the story.

So with things like that, you just have to go, we could write an academic history where we argue about the possible dates, but in order to write a movie, you'd have to go, we have to pick a date, got to pick one. It could be like one of like maybe three different, you've just got to choose one and go with it in order to be able to tell the story.

So with things like that, you just have to go, we could write an academic history where we argue about the possible dates, but in order to write a movie, you'd have to go, we have to pick a date, got to pick one. It could be like one of like maybe three different, you've just got to choose one and go with it in order to be able to tell the story.

And that's, I guess that's what liberated me is I just thought it needs to just be approached like we're writing a graphic novel or a movie. Which you did.

And that's, I guess that's what liberated me is I just thought it needs to just be approached like we're writing a graphic novel or a movie. Which you did.

And that's, I guess that's what liberated me is I just thought it needs to just be approached like we're writing a graphic novel or a movie. Which you did.

I take some satisfaction in that. Some authors just write the same book over and over again. And I don't know that I did this deliberately. It'd be like an actor that just plays the same kind of characters over and over, and then you've got other people that do lots of different things. But I look back at the books that I've written.

I take some satisfaction in that. Some authors just write the same book over and over again. And I don't know that I did this deliberately. It'd be like an actor that just plays the same kind of characters over and over, and then you've got other people that do lots of different things. But I look back at the books that I've written.

I take some satisfaction in that. Some authors just write the same book over and over again. And I don't know that I did this deliberately. It'd be like an actor that just plays the same kind of characters over and over, and then you've got other people that do lots of different things. But I look back at the books that I've written.

Although I did actually write three books in a row about Marcus Aurelius, they're all different genres. One's more of an academic history. One's a self-help book. One's a graphic novel. So if I look at the books, I've probably written about eight books, they're all quite different from each other. I feel like I kind of stretched myself.

Although I did actually write three books in a row about Marcus Aurelius, they're all different genres. One's more of an academic history. One's a self-help book. One's a graphic novel. So if I look at the books, I've probably written about eight books, they're all quite different from each other. I feel like I kind of stretched myself.

Although I did actually write three books in a row about Marcus Aurelius, they're all different genres. One's more of an academic history. One's a self-help book. One's a graphic novel. So if I look at the books, I've probably written about eight books, they're all quite different from each other. I feel like I kind of stretched myself.

I mean, the pros and cons of that are sometimes when you stretch yourself and do something you haven't done before, you can kind of fall flat on your face and maybe you figure out it's not your forte or whatever. But the positive side is that that's how you grow, by taking a chance and doing something that's... something you never even imagined that you'd be doing.