The Daily Stoic · 2026-07-14 · 10 min · 2,095 words

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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. Other than yours, do you have any favorite paragraphs? Oh my goodness. Um, I mean I'm looking at these I, you know, I love Emily Oster.

Um I love adult children of emotionally immature parents. She's coming out with a new book soon. That that that's such a crazy book because it was like basically self-published and just became this sort of word-of-mouth enormous thing. Gradsky is a friend and I love her work. I love Siblings Without Rivalry and how to talk to your kid, you know, how talks to your kids will listen, listen to your your listen to your kids will talk.

Have you read this one? No. So Kafka had a difficult relationship with his father. He's an artistic kid, his father was this businessman, he never got along. Towards the end of his life, he writes this letter that where he sort of lays it out.

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