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I have a book in the book sir if he has Edith what's her name no it's Wharton I don't know is it something Edith something and she wrote this book called The Greek Way which is a sample survey course of all the Greek plays and that's where he gets what does he say we drop by drop we suffer onto truth or something like that he once she had made it like monotheistic like yeah even in our sleep you know pain or suffering you know drop by drop comes onto the heart yes ill you know through the awful grace of God you know we arrive at understanding yes basically we learn through pain and suffering and he was saying I've learned through pain and suffering the loss my brother you're now morning Martin Luther King rioting anger pain whatever won't do any won't solve this we gotta come together

I'm just reading another book, it's funny by another Edith. I was reading a biography of Robert F. Kennedy and he's like in his 30s or 40s when he'd obviously been raised in a very Catholic family and someone gave him Edith Hamilton's book The Greek Way and it opens up this whole other side of him when Martin Luther King Jr. dies, he quotes Escalus which he gets from this book in this famous speech and that was Robert Kennedy, not John.

one of the things that helped me the most was focusing on worst case scenarios

are you kidding me how could this be worse

Dave could have had that same cardiac arrhythmia driving your children wow

And I've loved and I've recommended before Adam Rowe James, Stavritis' wonderful book, Sailing True North.

He was a leader. He was someone who always sailed true north as a title of one of my previous books would

And please read his other books, Sailing True North.

I've read his fantastic book, Sailing True North, Ten Admirals and the Voyage of Character by Admiral James Stevertus. And it's just a fascinating book.

I learned a ton from this book. I learned a ton from talking to him and we just really get into it.

I think you will love this book, Sailing True North, Ten Admirals and The Voyage of Character. It's a great diverse interesting list.

I wanted to start with the subtitle of Sailing True North, this idea of The Voyage of Character.

So the Greeks have this expression character is fate, right? Sort of who you are determines what you're going to do.

she came home one day and she was reading this book, King Leopold's Ghost which is all about the terrible colonial crimes of King Leopold, of Belgium in the Congo, in the Belgian Congo.

It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground than to send petitions to a president.

It is much more important to dig a half buried crow out of the ground than to send petitions to a president.

the word for this attitude is not stoic it's pan glossian a term derived from the novel can deed from Voltaire

And that is the subject of Martha's new book Justice for Animals, our collective responsibility which came out in January.

I have it here. I read it. I thought it was quite good.

Five hundred years later, Leonardo's notebooks are around to astonish and inspire us. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks, if we work up the initiative to start them, will be around to astonish and inspire our grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook posts.

His new book, 12 and a half is great.

It's called 12 and a half, leveraging the emotional ingredients necessary for business success.

He talks about gratitude, self-awareness, accountability, optimism, empathy, kindness, tenacity, curiosity, patience, conviction, humility, ambition.

And then something he's struggling with the most, kind, kinder. How do you be honest without hurting people? How do you use your reluctance to hurt people, not hold you back from speaking the truth?

It's a fascinating book.

He signed some copies of his other books while he was at the Painted Port, which we have for sale at thepaintedport.com. We've got signed copies of Crush It, the Thank You Economy and his other books as well.

if you haven't checked out Rachel's massive bestsellers didn't see that coming, girl stop apologizing, girl wash your face, which sold over five million copies.

She signed some books over at the Painted Porch her massive bestsellers didn't see that coming girl stop apologizing and girl wash her face.

I felt like the embodiment of this book or your creative approach you've read um Zen in the Art of Archery I'm sure right

In Zen and the Art of Archery, you hear you Jen Herregle talk very similar actually to something that we get from Cicero. The image of the archer, he talks about you aim it, you let it go, but then it leaves your hands and so the understanding that at a certain point this project leaves your control and that you can't care about that as much.

I also recommend another book that I love in this interview called Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther.

there's a beautiful book called I'm now forgetting the name but John Gunther who was like one of the great journalists of the 20th century like the night 30s 40s 50s he wrote this book about about his son I want to I want to find the name whose son was dying of cancer or something his younger son and he wrote this beautiful book about it and it's like I'd never heard of John Gunther I'd never heard of his son it was no longer a news story and you read this sort of heartbreaking book a sort of a letter from a father to a son about trying to capture this this boy's life this brief life you know the upside is that it's completely timeless and it it's it's impacting people far after both of them are gone

so it says soon after the book's release Dorothy Thompson who's apparently a oh she's the first American journalist expelled from Nazi Germany in 1934 anyways she says has his had his son lived to be 90s and lived to be 90 and had his achievements filled in cyclopedias he could have made no greater achievement than this transmitted by his father to show us what on its highest levels of courage serenity serenity truth and beauty a human life can be to show us that as we live we die and that life and death are one

if you haven't read his new book Clear Thinking turning ordinary moments into extraordinary results you must

His expertise is rooted in personal experience-he started working at an intelligence agency in 2001.

his book Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results a must-have manual for optimizing decision-making, gaining competitive advantage, and living a more intentional life.

his new book Clear Thinking turning ordinary moments into extraordinary results

you can grab at the painted porch

So you finally did the book how's that feel?

Feels good it was a long time like it was a long when did you sell it?

his great mental models series is super popular we carry those at the painting porch can almost never keep them in stock

has this series of books called The Great Mental Models I think there's volume one two and three and people just absolutely love it I'll link to that in the show notes they're super popular and just great books general thinking concepts there's one on physics and chemistry and biology super popular we can never keep enough of them in stock so he signed a bunch of them when he was at the store

the great mental models books which we are super popular in the books for by the way

and the reason I self-published them was not because my traditional publisher wasn't interested in them they were but they wanted it to be a different book to fit with like they wanted it to be like basically a young adult novel and I wanted to write a fable

He's got some great books as well that are worth reading. Love Your Enemies, the conservative heart, the road to freedom, gross national happiness and his first book Who Really Cares, which is about charitable giving.

In a recent episode of the Daily Stoic podcast with Tim Urban is the creator of wait but why and he's the author of this new book called What's Our Problem I talked to him about his lifelong struggle with some of these very habits namely just namely distraction and procrastination.

his book is called What's Our Problem, A Self Helpbook for Societies

It's Available Only as an eBook on most major platforms and an audio book. It's not up as a print book yet but it's brilliant, provocative.