Shaan Puri

be with a dog, right?

A dog is like loyal, it's a great friend, it's a great pet, right?

Then kids are just like childlike wonder about everything.

And the dead people is like, rather than spending my time consuming tweets and TikToks that people put 20 seconds into, it's like, this guy put 20 years of his life into this book.

Like, go hang with the dead.

You'll, you know, it'll be better for you.

And so just hanging, changing who I hung with, kids, dogs, and dead people was like a pretty big game changer for, you know, overall enjoyment.

who's my favorite dead person I discovered right now I'm hanging right now like I told you I was reading this like stoicism book and so which is like whatever pretty cliche but there's a guy who wrote a book that basically summarizes like here's what Aristotle was saying here's what Socrates was saying then this guy was all about suffering to prove himself so he kind of lived a pretty tough life this guy was doing this and they exiled him to this island it's basically like

a walk through all the Stoics.

And it's pretty good.

It's like, it summarizes all of them and like the slight nuances of the different schools of thought that they had, because they were basically all influencers.

And so one guy had this school of thought, he influenced, he got all these people behind him.

And then this other guy branched out, spun it off and was like, yeah, it's that, but without the suffering, it's way more fun over here.

And then they all got really popular and so on and so forth.

And so they're all dead now, but learning from their, you know, their philosophies obviously is so valuable.

Both of them.

All of the downside and none of the upside?

Yeah, correct.

Are you saying they're doing it wrong?

Are you saying the philosophy tells you to do that?