Men Are Reading Less Fiction. That’s A Problem. | Steven Pressfield

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. I'm about to hop on a plane about I guess the car should be here in about 25 minutes.

And I'm reading this, um, I'm reading this novel, this bit of historical fiction. I I don't want to say what it is yet, because I don't know if I like it enough yet, but I do love reading historical fiction. I love it. And and one of my all-time favorite writers of historical fiction, probably one of the first great bits of historical fiction I read, and I'm nothing against the westerns that I read as a kid or whatever. was Stephen Pressfield's The Gates of Fire.

In fact, I have the last page of the original manuscript signed on my wall, one of my prized possessions. And I think I love that book because, look, there's things that we talk about, but but what fiction does is it it shows you, right? That book is honor and courage and shame and sacrifice, loyalty, betrayal, greatness. what it means to keep your word, what it means to fail, what it means to care about something, what it means to be committed to something, what it means to be the kind of person that other people can count on. Look, I think all of us need to watch less news, maybe even listen to fewer podcasts, and read more.

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