Kyle Carpenter on Courage, Survival, and What Comes After
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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. Okay, so I gave a talk in Austin I guess this was back in September, maybe October.
And I'd had a kind of a crazy day in Austin and I'd come straight from the podcast studio and I told this story. We know physical courage, I think, when we see it, right? Physical courage is Kyle Carpenter, who I interviewed today, one was Medal of Honor. He was on a rooftop in Afghanistan. A grenade comes in and in a split second he throws himself on top of it.
He absorbs the majority of the blast, he saves the life of his buddy and quite generally loses his own. He wins the Medal of Honor for this. But it's that flash, that moment when you do the incredible thing. He and I talked about someone that I'm writing about in my next book. It's a man named Tom Hudner.
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