Podcast
The Daily Stoic
This book, described as a parenting book or epistolary, uses letters to the author's son to explore Stoicism and chronic pain. It incorporated trivia and historical information, aiming for an entertaining read.
well it's interesting Ryan because I wrote this book wise up really thinking about nicomachian ethics and senica's letters to a stoic so yeah it was never I never wrote it as a parenting book I wrote...
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This book, described as a parenting book or epistolary, uses letters to the author's son to explore Stoicism and chronic pain. It incorporated trivia and historical information, aiming for an entertaining read.
well it's interesting Ryan because I wrote this book wise up really thinking about nicomachian ethics and senica's letters to a stoic so yeah it was never I never wrote it as a parenting book I wrote it as as an epistolary because I thought this is a great way to express how much I love the gift of stoicism but I was not it was never a parenting book it never occurred to me until my publisher and so I used my son uh I asked him if I could address the letters to him and he said yes and I because my son we have a great relationship I really enjoy a sense of humor and I thought in writing letters where my son essentially stands in for the reader I could have a lot more fun and fill it with bits of trivia and historical information that it just found fascinating so it was really a way to write the most entertaining book that I was proud of I am a bit of a magpie I find bits of information and treasure them up and then I could tell where by reading all your books um and that's what I love is that like you've lit the fuse for so many people their lives are going to be enhanced because of sharing the sharing of the knowledge which is such a gift um so thank you for that