Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2021-12-04
Ryan Holiday & Arthur Brooks: books mentioned on The Daily Stoic (Dec 2021)
Arthur Brooks on Finding Happiness and Stoicism vs. Epicureanism
Ryan Holiday recommended The Great Influenza by John M. Barry, and discussed The big short by Michael Lewis, Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis, and Envy by Joseph Epstein.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The big short
The Big Short by Michael Lewis is a non-fiction book examining the accumulation of risk and the bursting of the housing bubble that led to the 2008 financial crisis.
Discussed“but you could also argue that sort of his his development as a writer perfectly intersects with the financial crisis in 2007-2008 and you get The Big Short.”
Where to get it
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Liar's Poker
Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis is a semi-autobiographical financial book detailing the author's chaotic experiences as a bond salesman at Salomon Brothers during the explosive Wall Street culture of the 1980s.
Discussed“Yeah and there's there's something about writing too like I'm I'm a huge fan of Michael Lewis and I what I think about when I think about his career is he writes all these you know he writes his first book Liar's Poker which is his sort of young memoir does these other books all very successful”
Where to get it
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The Great Influenza
The Great Influenza by John M.
Recommended“Yeah, I was I've talked about John M. Barry's book The Great Influenza, which is an incredible book that I think everyone should have read at the beginning of this pandemic.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged Lives of the Stoics
“I suspect one of the things that that bothers stoics about Epicureans and why there's this conflict and there was there was actually a a stoic named Diotimus who I write about in in Lives of the Stoics who who forges all these fraudulent letters accusing Epicurus of all these crimes”