Gavin Newsom on Ego, Power, and Stoicism

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 A couple of months back, I'm listening to a podcast, I'm listening to Ezra Klein's podcast, and the governor of California is on there.

Um, I'm from California and no longer live there. And um, yeah, and the governor of California starts suddenly talking about stoicism. Uh, listen to this. I hate to bring this book up because it's such a universal, obvious book. I had never read it.

I've had 10 copies. I finally picked it up off the off the shelf. I'm like, what the heck? Meditations from Marcus Aurelius. And I'm like, where the hell have I been?

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