The Daily Stoic

A Good American Family is his twelfth book.

Yeah I have incredible I wish it was back in print it's like super rare to find. I had a fan that has become a friend send me his copy yes and it I read it this season and it just totally shifted my perspective and blew my mind that the pitcher is now your enemy in some capacity you are one and the same and it takes his talent to add on to complete your talent and you're doing one dance together.

I've got a new book coming out and I was very excited to read his new book. It's sort of a memoir slash exploration of the longest war in American history. It's titled The Fifth Act America's End in Afghanistan.

His books have been nominated for a national book award and Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction that date and literary peace prize among others is written for Esquire in the New Yorker in the New York Times where he's a contributing opinion writer and his stories are award winning and wonderful. And I can't recommend his work enough you can go to Elliott Ackerman dot com.

I also recommend his novel on the Afghanistan war of green on blue just a wonderful conversation. It was very excited to have and I think you're going to enjoy it.

I remember sitting sitting at a firebase in Kuhnar which is up in north eastern Afghanistan reading Winston's church hills the Malik land field force which was like one of his first book which is all about fighting in you know Northwest frontier province you know back when the British Empire held it and I'm reading this book and I'm looking and I can see the valleys that he's talking about where they had fought and you would drive around you know with you know with Afghans I mostly worked as an advisor to Afghan troops and you drive around these guys and be like yeah right up there that's the ambience ambush pass the Soviets there my grandfather ambushed you know my great grandfather ambush the British there and by the way we need to be careful at the Taliban don't ambush us there because this is always how they do it so it's like the so the geography like the actual tactical geography of war is handed down there like air loops one generation to the next like when the invader comes this is the past where we always kill them and now you understand sun and the next person will understand it

a book I read this year that I really enjoyed was Andrew Roberts biography of Napoleon Napoleon life I would recommend is great by the way I read his George III after our last conversation so good right yeah really good really good

I read his book Rising Tide many years ago which I think it's kind of a climate change book it's certainly about what happens when we fuck with the climate and the consequences there

She thought to herself, 'This is now.' She was glad that the cosy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now. They could not be forgotten, she thought, because now is now. It can never be a long time ago.

the idea that if I'm organized and I keep my shit together and I'm successful life won't collapse around me.

The Warrior Within our own power to serve, fight and protect and heal. It's a great book.

It highlights the tribal principles that led to the first cultures in America. It dives into the significance of tribal principles how they can be applied to lead organizations with courage, find clarity in chaos and serve your best regardless of your circumstances.

You can go to his website nativediscovery.com. You can follow him on Twitter at DJVanisVANAS but do check out the new book which is out this month, The Warrior Within, own your power to serve, fight and protect.

I was just reading Admiral Stavritis' book about Navy heroes and I had no idea about Commander Ernest Evans who was the first Native American to win the Medal of Honor.

I loved this conversation. I had so much fun and I thought If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal it was a fascinating and just playful and fun book

And the author of If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal is Justin Gregg

And he wrote this fascinating book called If Nietzsche Were a Narwhal: what animal intelligence reveals about human stupidity

but I write, I argue this in the book, we're also really terrible at feeling the consequences of long-term schemes

so I say like that's not necessarily true with what we know from animal cognition they do have a bit of future planning but for the most part yes that is the literal like we can think about our own deaths and plan for it and like does that make us happier I don't know

my favorite is his book, Just Babies which is about where it is our sense of justice innate in us or do we learn it as we grow up?