BONUS | Books You Can Finish In One Sitting (And Actually Remember)

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Amazing books you can read in a single sitting. The War of Art. This is a book you can read in one sitting and then you should read it again and again and again. I try to read it before I start any creative project.

Seneca's essay on the shortness of life, one of the greatest pieces of philosophy ever written. It's not that life is short, he says, it's that we waste a lot of it. Zen and the Art of Archery, another amazing philosophy book from the other side of the world. This is the new Walter Isaacson book, the greatest sentence ever written about the first sentence. of the Declaration of Independence.

We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. On the 250th anniversary of our country he does a nice, what is this, seventy page or so meditation on a wonderful sentence and what it means. 84 Charing Cross Road. Again, this doesn't seem like an amazing book, but it is the series of letters between uh screenwriter in the US and an antique bookseller in the UK right after World War II but you will fall in love with all the characters in this book and devour it in one setting.

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