Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2023-07-31
Books mentioned on Navy Captain David Carey On Surviving As A POW With Admiral James Stockdale (with Stoicism)
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Good to Great
Good to Great by Jim Collins is a well-known business and management book that investigates how companies transition from being ordinary to achieving sustained great results.
Discussed“because it's most famously in um uh Jim Collins is good to Great and the the paradox is effectively you have to on the one hand unflinchingly accept the reality of the situation you're in”
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The choice
The Choice by Edith Eger and Jorge Paredes is a poignant memoir that examines how individuals can find freedom and agency even in the face of unimaginable adversity.
Recommended“she wrote this beautiful book called The Choice which basically comes down to very similar thing the the when everything else is reduced we have some small choice about Story We Tell ourselves are we going to be corrupted by this are we going to be broken by this”
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Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E.
Discussed“um when when he talks I read I've read man search for meaning yeah um which I completely agree with you know it is a meaning in our life”
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Own book The Daily Stoic
“it's funny as I I so I wrote this book The Daily sto it's one page of sto philosophy every day right”