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The book is absolutely amazing.

What I would have dreamed I could have written for my time with Richard Overton and it's just a fascinating book.

Check out this new book, The Book of Charlie 109 years in the pursuit of happiness, a great book of wisdom.

When a great writer meets a great subject like Charlie White, hold on to your seats.

he talks about in his other great book which I recommend sailing through north there's basically saying what's true north what do you believe what do you hold important what are the what are the what's the what are you ascribed to right

Many, many, many, many years ago I read a book called A Fighter's Heart by Sam Sheridan and then he wrote another book called A Fighter's Mind. Both are very good.

I read the interview with him and then I went and I read his memoir Uncaged My Life as a Champion MMA Fighter

You can check out his book Uncage My Life is a Champion MMA Fighter.

The novelist Philip Meyer, whose book The Sun is an incredible read and actually just did a wonderful interview on the Daily Stoke podcast in the new studio so you can check that out.

And do listen to the new interview with Philip Meyer just came out and you can actually watch a video version of it in the new studio at youtube.com slash daily stoic podcast.

I read a book recently, not recently maybe six, seven months ago about a book by James Peck who was one of the freedom writers. In fact, the book is called Freedom Rides and I think we accidentally ordered a bunch of copies for the painting portion. I think we still have some so check it out if you want to but it's his memory.

Life in Five Senses: How Exploring the Senses Got Me Out of My Head and Into the World

I hadn't thought of that that way or I haven't I don't know right and you talked about what the inside of a blueberry looks like.

It's like using to look you have to look I think to me that's kind of the essence in the book is that like right there's a whole bunch of stuff that you don't look for. Yes, but it's there.

One of the exercises that I did maybe my most ambitious exercise was to visit the Metropolitan Museum every day

I'm reading the varieties of religious experience by William James crowds in power by Elias Canetti the life of Samuel Johnson by James Boswell

His new book is called Excellent Advice for Living and its advice and experiences that he wants to pass down to his kids and his grandchildren.

But his new book I think he's actually the most well suited to The Daily Stoic and for daily dad.

Maybe start by adding his new book to your library. Excellent Advice for Living is out on May 2nd.

you wrote that book The Messy Middle or seen that book it's a it's arguably a long too long of a book to just tell you the basis of the story and there's this graph in it where it's like you're on this just path from here to here and as you're going up the path and you're going up the hill like your low you'll have low points still but you look back and go that low point is way higher than my low point when I was like in high school and it was just that's and like that's kind of like this image that's just burned in my brain and seeing that as like it's I think it's a book mostly meant for like business owners and like that so it's as someone who kind of has a business it's like I should read this and it was just very interesting to see thinking about that and then like like what you said like the the whole the whole sense of time as you get older is so warped

That's also the idea behind the new book The Daily Dad, 366 lessons on parenting and love and raising great kids which is meant to be read in a loop each day bringing new insights from the same pages each year.

It's one of my absolute favorite books and I think about it all the time.

It's incredible books, a great introduction to Montaigne. I've recommended it to so many people over the years.

If you haven't read How to Live, grab it. I'll link to it at the painted porch or grab it wherever you can. It's a wonderful book and we talk a lot about Montaigne. We talk about the Stoics. We talk about philosophy. Some other lovely topics.

It's a lovely book and I really enjoyed reading it. And we had a conversation about that book.

As the character in Herman Hesse's Siddhartha says, we cannot spare our kids the suffering we have gone through in our lives. We cannot prevent them from suffering all together because suffering and pain are a part of life.

I really liked Henry Lewis Gates' book on Phyllis Wheatley, for instance, America's first black poet and her account and her encounters with the founding fathers,

have you read Olmsted's book uh A Journey through Texas yeah that's very good book there's a there's a passage in it where he goes like he's quote someone who's like Austin's too expensive these days like in the 1850s you know and you're like people just to be doing the same thing in the same places for basically thousands of years