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The Daily Stoic
The book is cited as the source for a quote from General Sherman about never returning by the same road, highlighting the importance of seeking new challenges and avoiding complacency. The podcast host initially misattributed the quote to Grant, using Chat GPT to verify, and later discovered the correct source.
And it turns out it's not in Sherman's memoirs. It's a line in this letter that he wrote to a friend.
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Episode: Always Try To Do It The Hard Way
The book is cited as the source for a quote from General Sherman about never returning by the same road, highlighting the importance of seeking new challenges and avoiding complacency. The podcast host initially misattributed the quote to Grant, using Chat GPT to verify, and later discovered the correct source.
And it turns out it's not in Sherman's memoirs. It's a line in this letter that he wrote to a friend.
General Sherman, the great military strategist and Civil War hero once wrote in a letter to his friend that he had an old rule never to return by the road he had come.