Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2024-10-29
Books mentioned on Julia Baird On Building Resilience And The Strength Of Forgiveness
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Queen Victoria
Discussed“I loved your biography of Queen Victoria and then I was like cuz I was going to write about Queen Elizabeth in my discipline book the second and I was like there's got to be a book this good about her”
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Victoria: The Queen
Discussed“I loved your biography of Queen Victoria, and then I thought, because I was going to write about Queen Elizabeth in my next book, there has to be a book this good about her.”
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The Reason Why
Discussed“He also wrote a book on The Charge of the Light Brigade that's incredible and it's just called the reason why”
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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“In Meditations, Marcus Aurelius wrote that when you tuck your child in at night, remind yourself they might not survive until morning.”
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Phosphorescence
Discussed“well so I put phosphorescence in I I'm doing a 10 year anniversary edition of the obstacles away and I use one of your stories in it”
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Lucy by the Sea
Discussed“and it got me thinking about kind of the last time we ever kind of say or do something you know um Elizabeth Stout wrote about it in um Lucy by the Sea you know the last time you pick up your kid”
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Amazing Grace
Discussed“When you quote 'Amazing Grace' in the book, it reads as an acknowledgment of the man who wrote that song, who was a slave trader and later became an abolitionist.”
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Uncle Tom's Cabin is an influential anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in the nineteenth century.
Discussed“that line wasn't there from Isaac Newton that that line was there from was put in by Harriet Beacher stow and Uncle Tom's Cabin”
Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Obstacle Is the Way
“well so I put um phosphorescence in I I'm doing a 10y year anniversary edition of the obstacles away and I use one of your stories in it a yeah fun I the you talked about”
Own book The Obstacle Is the Way
“I've included phosphorescence in a ten-year anniversary edition of The Obstacle Is the Way, and I used one of your stories.”
Own book Bright Shining
“so the book is called my book is called bright shining from the line in Amazing Grace”
Own book The Obstacle Is the Way
“like when Marcus really says the obstacle is the way yeah I think people have taken that because that's how I I wrote the first book they've taken the obstacles away to mean here's how you get ahead in business”
Own book The Obstacle Is the Way
“they've taken the obstacles away to mean here's how you get ahead in business here's how you deal with these little disadvantages you turn them into springboards”