BONUS | Ryan Holiday Responds to Daniel Radcliffe

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hearing anybody complain about Bad Bonnie like not being American or any of that stuff like now, having, I mean, hearing him complain about it anyway is is heinous, but like after having read that book, you're like, no, you guys need to shut up. Get very defensive. I also love the Puerto Rico chapter. It really informed re-watching the Super Bowl and I was just like, did you watch that?

I sounds like a brag. I can't help it. I was there. I picked the right year to do a sports-based comedy with NBC because they also had the Super Bowl. So they they sent me to that and I got to go and it was awesome.

So Daniel Radcliffe, Harry Potter, has been raving about this book. I just want to co-sign on this recommendation because it is an incredible book that not only changed how I understood America, but it changed how I understood the world. The way to understand the present moment is almost always by better understanding the past. For instance, did you know that in the 1800s there was a race to take up islands in the Pacific and all over the oceans that were covered in bird shit because that bird shit

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