The Daily Stoic · 2026-06-12 · 4 min · 879 words

BONUS | Not Everything Has To Be Productive (with Chris Guillebeau)

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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. You have to think about how to be of service and also how to have fun and enjoy life yourself, which is also something that I I I don't historically do a good job of like, oh I want to have fun. I'm gonna do, you know, like I actually wrote about it. It's like like how do I practice having fun, right?

There's a whole chapter about this. And I like have the story of this guy in the Netherlands named Jan who for like 30 years, every Wednesday, he would go to Amsterdam, Schiphol Airport and book a flight somewhere within Europe, wherever was cheapest. He'd fly to Stockholm or Barcelona or somewhere and he would just kind of hang out. He would like walk around the terminal and he'd fly back. And he never leave the airport.

Never leave the airport. Okay. It's so interesting. This is what he liked to do. He just like he found it really peaceful, enjoyable, relaxing and so on.

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