The Daily Stoic · 2026-08-20 · 16 min · 2,867 words

This Is Your Ticket to Freedom | What Ryan Holiday Told Shawn Ryan to Read Next

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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. This Is your ticket to freedom.

In nineteen sixty two, as this Navy fighter pilot prepared to leave graduate school and return to duty, His philosophy professor handed him a warn Thin volume. I think you'll be interested in this, Philip Rhin Lander, the Dean of Philosophy at Stanford, told Commander James Stockdale. That night Stockdale opened the Im Caridian.

A short handbook containing the teachings of the formerly enslaved stoic philosopher Epictetus. At first Stockdale struggled to understand these writings from the first century AD. What could this possibly teach a fighter pilot, he thought. But he kept reading.

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