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CONUNDRUM.
This book is a memoir by a British journalist and historian who was a news correspondent who climbed Everest with Hillary and wrote a history of the British Empire. The author went through a gender transition in 1965.
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Oh, so she, uh, was.
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This book is a memoir by a British journalist and historian who was a news correspondent who climbed Everest with Hillary and wrote a history of the British Empire. The author went through a gender transition in 1965.
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Oh, so she, uh, was.
A was in the British army and then was the news correspondent who climbed Everest with Hillary and then wrote these three books, uh, this three, like a, a history of the British empire.
That's like incredible. Uh, and then, um, in 1965, so somewhere in there, um, basically comes to, like she, she'd known it since she was a kid, but that she's trans.
And then, so she, she gets gender reassignment surgery, but in like the sixties, like when it was like, and then before it's cool, but it's like an incredible memoir from like one of an, like this all time badass.
But I love, I love reading books about people who went through something that people are talking about now, but because when they experienced it, when they wrote about it, there's no political baggage, there's no controversy, there's no, no, no phobia about just, it just is.
And so I like, like, um, during COVID you'd read about like the Spanish flu. Right.
So you understand what's happening now through something that doesn't have any of the, that that's like one of my all time favorite books. I just read it like maybe a year ago and it blew my mind.
It's really, really good. Um, I think you'd like that one.
Memoirs of Gen. William T. Sherman - Complete
The speaker recommended this book.
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Sherman's memoirs are also incredible.
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The speaker recommended this book.
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Sherman's memoirs are also incredible.
How Good Do You Want to Be? A Champion's Tips on How to Lead and Succeed at Work and in Life
Ryan Holiday mentioned Nick Saban's book, How Good Do You Want To Be?, and its good title. Though he doesn't think it's the best book, he believes it raises a powerful question.
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Well, Saban's book has a good title.
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Ryan Holiday mentioned Nick Saban's book, How Good Do You Want To Be?, and its good title. Though he doesn't think it's the best book, he believes it raises a powerful question.
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Well, Saban's book has a good title.
It's called How Good Do You Want to Be?
On the Happy Life
This book contained four essays by Seneca called His Consolations, which were about consoling people who had lost someone. It was also used as an example of how the Stoics were not emotionless, but rather not overwhelmed by those emotions.
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The most beautiful writing that Seneca did, you can find it in the book, The Most Beautiful Writing that Seneca did, he wrote these four essays that are called His Consolations.
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This book contained four essays by Seneca called His Consolations, which were about consoling people who had lost someone. It was also used as an example of how the Stoics were not emotionless, but rather not overwhelmed by those emotions.
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The most beautiful writing that Seneca did, you can find it in the book, The Most Beautiful Writing that Seneca did, he wrote these four essays that are called His Consolations.
And they're him consoling people who have lost someone. In one case, it's his mother who lost him. He's being exiled.
Ascent to Power
How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World
The speaker really enjoyed this biography of Truman and found it to be an epic and enormous biography, a type of book that he doesn't think enough people read, but which serve as inspiration for his own writing.
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I loved this biography.
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The speaker really enjoyed this biography of Truman and found it to be an epic and enormous biography, a type of book that he doesn't think enough people read, but which serve as inspiration for his own writing.
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I loved this biography.
I loved his book, George Marshall, Defender of the Republic, both those epic, enormous biographies that I love that I don't think enough people read but become the basis of the books that I write.
And I'm looking forward to you all reading this book, Ascent to Power, How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World.
And I think as I talk about in my chapter on him in the Justice Book, he reads Marcus Aurelius as a young man and it orients his whole life around these cardinal virtues.
And this is one of the earliest pages of your book about this small town Missouri farmer suddenly and unexpectedly finds himself the most powerful man in the world at perhaps the most precarious moment in the history of the world.
George Marshall
Defender of the Republic
The speaker loves this biography of George Marshall, and believes that it is an epic and enormous book that not enough people read.
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And then you'll see this in the new book. I guess he's in the discipline book too, but you'll see this in Right Thing Right Now which you can pre-order at DailyStoic.com. So Justice, the new book. Any...
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The speaker loves this biography of George Marshall, and believes that it is an epic and enormous book that not enough people read.
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And then you'll see this in the new book. I guess he's in the discipline book too, but you'll see this in Right Thing Right Now which you can pre-order at DailyStoic.com. So Justice, the new book. Anyways, a big one is Harry Truman.
I loved his book, George Marshall, Defender of the Republic, both those epic, enormous biographies that I love that I don't think enough people read but become the basis of the books that I write.
And he not only did this awesome book on George Marshall, which I interviewed him about remotely a couple years back. And then he sent me an email and said he was working a book on a book about Truman.
You can follow David on X at Mr. Roll and do check out Defender of the Republic and Ascent to Power, two epic awesome biographies.
King George
What Was His Problem?
The speaker recommends this book about King George to anyone interested in American History from a British perspective.
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I read his King George book, which I really. Yes. I have it. I didn't read it. I thought it was really interesting to read American history. Written by a Brit.
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The speaker recommends this book about King George to anyone interested in American History from a British perspective.
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I read his King George book, which I really. Yes. I have it. I didn't read it. I thought it was really interesting to read American history. Written by a Brit.
Sociopath
A Memoir
The speaker has a signed copy of Truman's two volume memoirs. The speaker mentions that they were helpful in writing about Truman as they over-emphasized some of his accomplishments, but they were also interesting to read about Truman's own perspective.
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And I asked, I said, what was Truman like? You know, did he, did you sense? And he said it was totally fine and it was normal.
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The speaker has a signed copy of Truman's two volume memoirs. The speaker mentions that they were helpful in writing about Truman as they over-emphasized some of his accomplishments, but they were also interesting to read about Truman's own perspective.
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And I asked, I said, what was Truman like? You know, did he, did you sense? And he said it was totally fine and it was normal.
But so he puts it in this copy of Truman's memoirs.
You know, I have a copy, a signed copy of the two volume. Truman memoirs?
And I got it because of my law firm in Washington. Louis Johnson was the guy that raised the money for Truman in the 48 election.
I took it out of the library at Stet when I was, you know, like a new partner there, you know.
Harry S. Truman by Margaret Truman (1973-05-03)
The speaker mentions that Margaret Truman, Truman's daughter, wrote a biography about her father. He describes this biography as a nice book, but also disagrees with what it says about Truman's friendship with Eddie Jacobson.
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Actually, you know, Margaret Truman wrote a nice biography of her father. And in it she wrote that Truman is really not good friends with Eddie Jacobson.
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The speaker mentions that Margaret Truman, Truman's daughter, wrote a biography about her father. He describes this biography as a nice book, but also disagrees with what it says about Truman's friendship with Eddie Jacobson.
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Actually, you know, Margaret Truman wrote a nice biography of her father. And in it she wrote that Truman is really not good friends with Eddie Jacobson.
To Buy an Earl (The Carroway Family Book 1)
The speaker mentions this book about Summersby's affair with Eisenhower, and questions the idea that Truman tore up the only document of this affair.
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Summersby wrote a book about it. She wrote a book about her affair with Eisenhower.
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The speaker mentions this book about Summersby's affair with Eisenhower, and questions the idea that Truman tore up the only document of this affair.
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Summersby wrote a book about it. She wrote a book about her affair with Eisenhower.
Bring Out The Boss In You
A Guide For Entrepreneurs
The author of this book was asking for advice on how to find motivation when dealing with long work days and an endless to-do list.
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Hi, I'm here in the tour marketing department. I'm also an author of Bring Out The Boss In You as a guide for entrepreneurs. And thank you.
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The author of this book was asking for advice on how to find motivation when dealing with long work days and an endless to-do list.
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Hi, I'm here in the tour marketing department. I'm also an author of Bring Out The Boss In You as a guide for entrepreneurs. And thank you.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass
The speaker highly recommended this book, calling it an incredible, life-changing, and amazing read.
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If you haven't read Frederick Douglass' memoirs, just an absolutely incredible life changing, amazing book that I can't recommend enough.
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The speaker highly recommended this book, calling it an incredible, life-changing, and amazing read.
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If you haven't read Frederick Douglass' memoirs, just an absolutely incredible life changing, amazing book that I can't recommend enough.
The Guns Of August
It was mentioned as a book that President John F. Kennedy read, which helped him with his decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He used the book's lessons to inform his approach to handling the situation.
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he was thinking about a book he read called The Guns Of August about the outbreak of of world war one
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It was mentioned as a book that President John F. Kennedy read, which helped him with his decision-making during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He used the book's lessons to inform his approach to handling the situation.
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he was thinking about a book he read called The Guns Of August about the outbreak of of world war one
The End of Your World
Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment
Mark Sreelius wrote about life being a procession of people leaving the stage.
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All those people who came into the world with you and have already left it, Mark Sreelius noted in Meditations Towards the End of His Life.
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Mark Sreelius wrote about life being a procession of people leaving the stage.
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All those people who came into the world with you and have already left it, Mark Sreelius noted in Meditations Towards the End of His Life.
Don't Hurt Laurie
It was considered an incredible book.
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We'll do Walter Ward's Don't Hurt which is incredible and then he has David for me which is about Pearl Harbor and then did you read Splendid in the Vile?
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It was considered an incredible book.
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We'll do Walter Ward's Don't Hurt which is incredible and then he has David for me which is about Pearl Harbor and then did you read Splendid in the Vile?
The Miracle of Dunkirk
The True Story of Operation Dynamo
It was one of the two Walter Lord books discussed.
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Dave Infamy, Dunkirk these are the two Walter Lord books.
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It was one of the two Walter Lord books discussed.
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Dave Infamy, Dunkirk these are the two Walter Lord books.
The Old Bridge
A Joe Johnson Thriller, Book 2
It was said to be about the war in the Pacific.
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Then we did with The Old Bridge about the war in the Pacific oh and then Splendid in the vial.
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It was said to be about the war in the Pacific.
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Then we did with The Old Bridge about the war in the Pacific oh and then Splendid in the vial.
Shadow Divers
The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
It was described as a crazy good story about a German submarine that sank off the coast of New Jersey.
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Have you um have you read Shadow Divers? This is also World War II books. Actually this one's incredible. They are diving to get this German submarine that sunk off the coast of New J...
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It was described as a crazy good story about a German submarine that sank off the coast of New Jersey.
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Have you um have you read Shadow Divers? This is also World War II books. Actually this one's incredible. They are diving to get this German submarine that sunk off the coast of New Jersey. It's all about like deep sea diving but it seems a crazy good story.
Les Pélopides, Ou Atrée Et Thieste
Tragédie (French Edition)
The speaker mentioned this play as the source of the daily quote.
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Today's quote actually comes from one of Seneca's plays. People don't necessarily see Seneca as a playwright. In fact, James Rom points this out in this fascinating biography of Seneca that for a big...
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The speaker mentioned this play as the source of the daily quote.
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Today's quote actually comes from one of Seneca's plays. People don't necessarily see Seneca as a playwright. In fact, James Rom points this out in this fascinating biography of Seneca that for a big chunk of the last 2000 years, it was inconceivable to scholars that Seneca, the playwright and Seneca, the philosopher were the same person. Many different people had the same names and so they just assumed that the themes and the styles seemed so different that they couldn't possibly be the same. I would argue they thought that the plays were so good that someone couldn't be that great at both things and what James Rom points out, which I stuck with me because I did a version of this in Lives of the Stokes. He said it would be like if Goethe had written Faust and was the right-hand advisor to Napoleon or Frederick the Great or something like that. Anyways, I'm getting ahead of myself. Basically, Seneca wrote some really good plays and this quote is from Seneca's play Thiestes, which is a very, very dark play.
Flowers for Algernon
The book, "Flowers for Algernon," was briefly mentioned in relation to a movie scene where a character jokingly comments on its subject matter.
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what about flowers for Aldrinon which if you read that book as a kid it's quite funny.
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The book, "Flowers for Algernon," was briefly mentioned in relation to a movie scene where a character jokingly comments on its subject matter.
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what about flowers for Aldrinon which if you read that book as a kid it's quite funny.
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