The 5-Step Stoic Routine for Clear Thinking | Maria Semple

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. Okay, so my February got got blown up, and it was a pretty absurd. chain of events.

Certainly life can be interrupted by really bad negative things, a diagnosis, a change in the economy, a somebody says or does something and it it causes all sorts of problems in a negative way. But we We sometimes forget how often our lives can just be positively impacted, can go in a very exciting new direction as a result of something you never would have guessed would happen. And that happened for me when I got an Instagram DM from a producer at Harpo. If you've never heard of Harpo, maybe just spell it backwards, right?

That's Oprah's production company. And they said, hey, Oprah just read your book. and would like you to come do an interview with her in Maui. And I said, uh, what? Is this real?

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