Ryan Holiday
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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And so I thought it's a really interesting sort of, because it looks at three generations, right?
It looks at Churchill and his father, and then obviously Churchill, and then Churchill and his son.
It's a great book.
I thought you might like that one.
Have you read any Stockdale?
No, I haven't.
All right, so this is thoughts of a philosophical fighter pilot.
So Stockdale...
Goes to the Naval Academy in 43, graduates, becomes a pilot.
And it's not until he spends 20 years as a pilot, it's not until the Navy sends him to Stanford, where he gets a graduate degree, that he's introduced to Stoic philosophy.
On his last day at Stanford, his philosophy professor goes, hey, I think you might like this book.
He gives him a copy of Epictetus, the Stoic philosopher.
And he does two more deployments there before he gets shot down.
And that's his sort of... He's every night in his bunk on the Ticonderoga and then the constellation and a little bit on the Oriskany.
He's reading Stoic philosophy.
So when he gets shot down in 65,
He famously says to himself, I am leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.
And it's in the Hanoi Hilton that he basically takes Stoic philosophy, which was a sort of theoretical thing,
and he applies it in this, what he calls the laboratory of human behavior.
Holy shit.
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