Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2022-01-10
Books mentioned on Los Angeles Rams GM Les Snead on Keeping the Main Thing the Main Thing
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Surviving IT: Essential Advice for Building a Happy and Healthy Technology Career
Discussed“Sports have been relatively late to adopt this idea; I have a chapter about load management in the book I'm working on right now.”
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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 talks about how people who love what they do wear themselves down doing it. You have to love what you do; I love writing, clearly you love football.”
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Lyle Family
Lyle Family is a historical nonfiction work by Oscar Kennett Lyle.
Recommended“It’s one of the greatest nonfiction books of all time, and I had him on the podcast. Did you read his book, *The Perfect Pass*? I did not. He wrote this book that I never thought about, which explains the invention of the passing game in football.”
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Grit
Grit by Angela Duckworth is a widely acclaimed psychological exploration of how passion and perseverance are far more critical to long-term success than innate talent alone.
Recommended“You should probably read Angela Duckworth's book, *Grit*, if you're going to take on that challenge because there are going to be headwinds and hopefully just hills to climb and not mountains. That must have been part of your experience, right?”
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Fooled by Randomness
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb examines how luck and random chance are frequently misinterpreted as skill and success in finance and daily life.
Discussed“have you read uh fooled by randomness”
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Atlas Shrugged
Atlas Shrugged is a dystopian novel by Ayn Rand that explores a society where leading innovators and industrialists mysteriously disappear.
Discussed“i just finished this summer uh reading for the first time because i didn't read it young atlas shrugged”
