The Daily Stoic · 2026-04-22 · 33 min · 6,029 words

Everything Is Connected. We Just Forgot.

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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. So I I grew up in the suburbs. I went to school.

in the suburbs of Los Angeles. That might be a little bit insulting, I guess, to call the inland empire a a suburb of Los Angeles, but I think it kind of is in a way. But after that I did the big city thing. All all I wanted to do was move to Los Angeles, which I loved. And then after that I moved to to New York City.

I lived in New Orleans in in between, but I was like a I was a city guy. And it wasn't until we moved to Texas, where at first I lived in the city, I lived in East Austin, but it wasn't until we really moved to Texas, as my wife and I like to say, when we moved out to the country, that I just realized how unnatural my life was, how how much the noise and the busyness and the craziness of it was not just disconnecting me from myself, which it certainly was, but disconnecting me from the natural world, right? You you sort of stop noticing the seasons.

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