Courage Under Fire The Definitive Account from Inside the Capitol on January 6th

And he spreads the blame around for this attack. But really, he takes aim at federal intelligence officials who failed to raise alarms before the riot. And a military bureaucracy, he said, waited too long to respond.

And is out now with a new book entitled Courage Under Fire, Under Siege, and outnumbered 58 to 1 on January 6th.

What's incredible about this book, it's written by a fighter pilot who's shot down over Vietnam, has his fur shooting down, knowing he's going to be taken prisoner, knowing that he very well could die.

This man says to himself, I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of Epictetus.

He's locked in solitary confinement. He's tortured as Epictetus was and yet all the time he's focusing on what Epictetus talked about, that a podium in a prison is each a place.

This is a short little pamphlet-looking thing I get that maybe doesn't seem like it would be one of the greatest philosophical works ever written, but it is.

Obviously the Stoics wrote for a long time about adversity and difficulty and we take them at their word. What's incredible about this book is that it's written by a fighter pilot who shot down over Vietnam, and he'd studied the Stoics, he studies epictetus most of all, and as he is parachuting down, knowing it's going to be taken prisoner, knowing that he very well could die.

This man says to himself, I'm leaving the world of technology and entering the world of epictetus.

What he's doing is testing the doctrines of epictetus in the laboratory of human experience.

James Stockdale spends seven plus years in what now is called the Hanoi Hilton, he's locked in solitary confinement, he's clapped in irons as epictetus was, he grievously injures his leg, never fully regaining the use of it, as epictetus did, he's tortured as epictetus was, and yet all the time he's focusing on what epictetus talked about that, there are some things that are up to us, some things that are not up to us.

The most transformative book for me during that time was Carriage Under Fire, the Stocktail book. And, you know, and I have that just completely marked up.

And the thing that really helped me from that book was talking about epic tease is basically just like feeling like a victim, right?