Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2025-04-06
Books mentioned on CREATIVE DISCIPLINE: "Good Bones" Maggie Smith & Ryan Holiday
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Good Bones
Discussed“All right. I'm sure you're sick of talking about it, but I do want to talk about Good Bones a little bit because I'm not sick of talking about it. No, no. I it's just um what I what I found so beautiful about the poem was this tension that I think is it was relevant that it's probably always”
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Memoirs of ... Mrs. S. Huntington
Discussed“Also, like uh Susan Strait, the novelist, who is uh my professor in college, she talks about this in her memoir.”
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a profound collection of personal reflections and Stoic philosophy written by the Roman emperor during his reign.
Discussed“I mean, that's what's so Mark's meditations is so fascinating because here you have this guy fundamentally exempted now from all the rules of society.”
Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book Goldenrod
“And I put it away and I trust future me to know what to do with it and future me might know what to do with it in a month or it might be nine years later that suddenly I mean I think I just finished a poem for and that was in my last book um Golden Rod from”
Own book You Could Make This Place Beautiful
“And so, for me, I knew that the first sentence of my memoir would have something in it that would say this is not a tell- all, right?”