Empathy Is Not Weakness | Will Guidara

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. It's funny, like just a couple years ago there was this whole sort of resurgence and sort of discussion about empathy, the power of empathy and vulnerability and connection.

I think Renee Brown was obviously a big proponent of this, outpopularized it. And then naturally there's going to be a backlash. There's always, always the swinging of the pendulum. But I think we're definitely going too far in the other direction these days, this backlash.

Actually when I was on the Daily Show, I w I was asked about this very idea. This is what I said. I I think so many men in particular are drawn to Daily Stoic. As a man myself who really enjoys uh your books and your YouTube and your uh Instagram, I see men in leadership positions now and I don't connect. I see our current administration.

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